Sentence examples for of stevedoring from inspiring English sources
The newspaper also pointed out an overlooked trend that helped set the stage for the current outcry: U.S. companies began withdrawing decades ago from the unglamorous business of stevedoring, ceding the now-booming industry to enterprises in Asia and the Middle East.
The movements of munitions depended on the whims of stevedores.
When the railway strike started ther was already a strike of stevedores at seven main ports.
Anna's brother, Pegleg Lonergan, became an organizer of stevedores before he was twenty-one years old.
During the war an appalling scarcity of stevedores developed in New York.
An antique cello case from the last century sports prickly reinforcements (to deflect the rough attentions of stevedores, Mr. Bromberg said).
Crew members tossed tag lines down to a team of stevedores onshore, who lassoed turquoise ropes around four bollards.
Hundreds of stevedores, many of them contrabands who had escaped slavery to Fort Monroe, met the ships upon their arrival in Virginia.
Men and goods crowded the big open space on the Bosphorus; products from between carts and holds, unloaded from the backs of stevedores and the humps of camels.
Thousands of stevedores, teachers, musicians, crooks, painters, waitresses have stared at these same old murals or at their reflections in the bar-back mirror.
Men and goods crowded the big open space on the Bosphorus; products from between carts and holds, unloaded from the backs of stevedores and the humps of camels.
