Sentence examples for pirate zone from inspiring English sources
The Volvo Ocean Race fleet has raced for nearly 30,000 nautical miles, through garbage-strewn waters in the China Sea, around a pirate zone on the way to India and over 20-foot waves in the Southern Ocean.
Attacks range from petty theft by unemployed fishermen and opportunistic criminals the great majority of incidents to highly organised, gang-operated hijacking.Although there is growing competition from the seas that wash Bangladesh and India, the favourite pirate zone remains Indonesia's waters and in particular the Malacca Strait, which altogether account for over 40% of the reported attacks.
The problem was that for a couple of weeks, this luxury ship -- gleaming with opulence and filled with well-off passengers -- passed through "the pirate zone".
Which is why Jim Griffin, Geffen Record&146s technology director, is on a mission to make the Internet a pirate-free zone usually, he says, all it takes to convince most pirates to cease and desist is a warning letter.
A curious thing about Provence is how the coast and the mountains have exchanged population: the coast was once an overheated pirate-afflicted zone that nobody wanted, while the cool hills were desirable – everyone lived up here.
Higher cruising speeds in pirate-infested zones and rerouting also have helped, as have razor wire, high-pressure hoses and citadels secure spaces on ships from which crews can call for reinforcements.
He has faced charges of speeding in a powerboat in a manatee zone and pirating cable television signals.
He was accurate and efficient, pounding the strike zone, and the Pirates could not square him up.
Chesterfield are now nine points off the play-offs, with the Pirates eight above the drop zone.
Australia has captured at least three pirate trawlers in its Antarctic economic zone this year.
Because Steed deals directly with pirates, he is in a gray zone between humanitarian work, which the U.N. does, and negotiating with criminals, which, officially, it does not.
