Sentence examples for risk of sinking from inspiring English sources

And without those fundamental overhauls, they say, Japan is at risk of sinking back into the economic torpor that has defined much of the last two decades.

After an engineering design of the detached breakwaters had been completed, the people, whose houses and properties were at risk of sinking into the sea, had to wait one more year for the EIA to be completed.

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Public education, viewed as a vessel, is certainly large and expensive and flawed, but it is not at risk of sinking — not in New York, not any time soon.

Also at no risk of sinking, despite the heavy metals clanking round his neck, was Michael Phelps, retiring – probably – from his fifth Games with five more golds and a wallflower silver to take his record tally to 23 golds, three silvers and two bronzes.

The island nation in the Indian Ocean is at risk of sinking.

BAN KI-MOON, the UN secretary-general, ran no risk of contradiction when he told the Conference on Disarmament in January that it was "in danger of sinking".

But the risk of them sinking has always been present and it increased with this result.

News of sinking of Nuremburg.

HONG KONG — Rescuers were searching Monday for crewmen missing from an Iranian oil tanker that had collided with another ship off China's coast, leaving the tanker in flames and at risk of exploding and sinking, the Chinese authorities said.

-- Chinese state media said an oil tanker that caught fire after colliding with a freighter off China's eastern coast was at risk of exploding and sinking.