Sentence examples for of being towed from inspiring English sources

Jeff Casher, the family spokesman, said the boat might be sunk instead of being towed ashore and salvaged.

When this arrangement was scaled up, so that it could be launched by running with it down a slope into a slight uphill breeze instead of being towed by a motor boat, hang-gliding took off around the world.

Petty Officer Richard Brahm, in the Coast Guard's Houston office, said the ship had originally been stranded 380 miles from port and, after a full day of being towed by two Coast Guard tugboats, was still 230 miles from Mobile on Tuesday morning.

"Australia's transfer of asylum seekers to lifeboats for the purposes of being towed back to Indonesia raises issues as to the legality of the transfer and significant issues of state responsibility in the event of an incident at sea involving that lifeboat".

On-street parking will be suspended in the centre of Lewes from 14 00 GMT, with vehicles at risk of being towed away, the council said.

The costs of barge transport depend on the number of barges being towed by a single towboat; this in turn depends on the dimensions of the waterway.

Now scores of smiling belugas would approach and play around the face of anyone being towed.

Newspapers across the country published pictures of one of its cars being towed to a dealer by four bedraggled horses.

For instance, the weight supported by a trailer hitch -- the tongue weight -- reduces the payload by 10percentt of the weight of whatever is being towed.

Earlier, Surrey Police said a number of vehicles had to be towed out of water on the A320 near Staines after motorists attempted to drive through.

On Friday, Australian broadcaster ABC published footage of what appeared to be a lifeboat of asylum seekers being towed by an Australian vessel.