Sentence examples for preceding shore from inspiring English sources

Strong currents beset the landing craft, and the area was obscured by smoke from the preceding shore bombardment.

The Golden Venture accident was not an isolated incident: in the preceding year, more than a dozen ships had dropped human cargo from China on American shores.

Military and Air America helicopters took evacuees to U.S. Navy ships off-shore during an approximately 24-hour period on April 29 to 30, 1975, immediately preceding the fall of Saigon.

Much pleasure has been given and received, in the preceding drama, but we are left in no doubt that the presence of death — not just that of a murderer — haunts these happy shores.

Like many of her generation — and the one which preceded her to these shores — America loomed large in her imagination.

Even in days of minimal television coverage and insular newspapers, his reputation preceded him to these shores for the 1966 World Cup, which he would finish as leading goalscorer.

Guiding you through often bewildering, always frustrating proceedings today will be three hosts: Pauly Shore, whose reputation precedes him; comedianne [sic] and avid VICE contributor Megan Koester; and serious movie guy Alex J. Mann.

So even a methodical haircut would need to be preceded by a mechanism that shores up banks' capital and reinforces their financing lines; otherwise there might indeed be a post-Lehman style banking panic.

The first of these waves is often preceded by an extraordinary recession of water from the shore, which may commence several minutes or even half an hour beforehand.

Others will follow me to those violent shores, just as, in the past, others have preceded me, from Mrs. Trollope to Geoffrey Gorer and Evelyn Waugh.

Beijing botched attempts at shoring up the stock market, a move that was unnecessary given that the fall of 30% had been preceded by a rise of 150%.