Sentence examples for off ports from inspiring English sources

Then came the French blockade as lorry drivers cut off ports in a bid to force their government to cut taxes on fuel.

A bankruptcy filing by South Korea's Hanjin Shipping Co. is rippling through the global supply chain, stalling the delivery of goods as the firm's ships sit anchored off ports across the world, including in Southern California.

"If you look off port, or left side, you can see Hyannis Marina," the tour guide announces.

He said they also sold off port facilities in Aden and an oil company.

A third test, conducted off Port Jackson, Louisiana on 8 June last year, produced the desired results, Hoek said.

The girl, Darlene Etienne, was rescued a day earlier from a collapsed home and was being treated on the French Navy hospital ship Sirocco, anchored off Port-au-Prince.

In 1904, it ran news of the first naval engagement of the Russian-Japanese War in a dispatch datelined, "Off Port Arthur, On Board The Times Steamship Haimun".

LAKE ERIE ISLANDS WHERE Off Port Clinton, Ohio DURATION Two hours to a weekend DIFFICULTY Easy to moderate Declared "dead" in the 1970s, Lake Erie might not seem a natural choice for kayakers.

The first mud appears on the approach to the Nile delta, and the shelf widens again to 70 miles (115 km) off Port Said, Egypt, at the entrance to the Suez Canal.

Edward Wong (NYT) NEW JERSEY ELIZABETH: WHALE KILLED BY SHIP -- A large finback whale found dead in the water off Port Elizabeth yesterday morning was struck and killed by a cargo ship, the authorities said.

Wolves struck three second-half goals to finally see off Port Vale at Molineux and again move above Leyton Orient at the top of League One.