Sentence examples for port about from inspiring English sources

In 2002, she directed his play "Port," about a working-class teen-age girl, at Manchester's Royal Exchange.

And so, for a still clearer vision of the interconnected future of surveillance, I set off for Hull, Britain's leading timber port, about three hours northeast of London.

The quake, which struck at 6 42 a.m., had an offshore epicenter 30 miles from Lazaro Cardenas, a port about 210 miles southwest of Mexico City.

Online maritime database services describe the C-Retriever as a 200-foot-long supply ship and put its last reported location at Onne, a Nigerian port about 70 miles east of Brass.

The town lies on the right bank of the Mekong River and is an important river port about 45 miles (75 km) northeast of Phnom Penh, the national capital.

Mr Rajapaksa himself went off to his southern hometown of Hambantota, visiting a big, Chinese-built port about to receive its first ship, to be blessed by a boatload of monks.Mr Rajapaksa has a surfeit of recent gifts.

I'm always struck, in Egypt, by the circuslike ability of people to carry big things on their heads — milk cans, bundles of clover, and, most amazingly, eight-foot-square trays of bread, ported about by boys on bicycles.

Several hours later, an Associated Press photographer saw Russian trucks and armored personnel carriers leaving the port with about 20 blindfolded and handcuffed men riding on them.

But use of regional ports is about more than a need for more docks.

She writes about fuel consumption, about ports, about navigation, about noise pollution and its deleterious effect on whales.

In the decades since Botham has become a doggedly harrumphing pundit, a charitable fundraising phenomenon and ultimately the curator of his own weighty legend, porting about with him the imprint of his own supreme Beefiness.