Sentence examples for rescue stood from inspiring English sources

Dumbo and Super Dumbo aircraft (B-17s and B-29s rigged for air-sea rescue) stood by, on alert.

One rescue stands out especially in my mind.

The Moriori saves him, and individual acts of heroism and rescue stand against tooth and claw across the narrative web.

But though the failure of any of the auto companies could make life in Michigan harder still, opponents of the rescue stand firm, many convinced that any federal loan would provide only a temporary fix anyway.

Uniformed rescue workers stood in an honor guard, alongside relatives of the victims.

The rescue pigeon stood in a newspaper-floored cage, looking sullen and confused.

As rescue craft stood by, the then 37-year-old skipper ordered his 40 crew members and 10 passengers to abandon ship.

Soon they were ushered toward the pier, where rescue workers stood with hundreds of onlookers, all just staring at the smoke blowing to the south.

While four Coast Guard helicopters and a rescue boat stood by and a Coast Guard vessel that can cut ice traveled to the scene, one passenger who suffered an allergic reaction was removed by a police helicopter, Mr. Sperduto said.

After searching the debris for more than 24 hours, rescue workers stood back to allow a giant backhoe to scoop up mounds of shattered wood, broken concrete and assorted clothing that had been for sale in the basement of the shop.

Although there are sub-Saharan Africans who hold strong grudges against America (Somalis, for instance, in whose country America carried out a clumsy intervention, or Rwandans, whose rescue it stood back from), it seems improbable that such people would be prepared or equipped to exact so co-ordinated a revenge.