Meanwhile, when Nigel Farage sank low with a rant against HIV-positive foreigners, it was Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood who won applause by telling him he should be ashamed of himself.
While the Housatonic sank, so did the Hunley.
Recently I sank 70 hours of my life into Divinity: Original Sin, luxuriating in the freedom and the flexibility its environmental magic system offered.
As the final whistle blew, many sank to their knees.
When I was shadow immigration minister and was writing Labor's refugee and asylum seeker policy, I used to say I was in search of a policy that we would feel comfortable defending on the day a boat sank and public sympathy was with the surviving asylum seekers, as well as on the day a riot broke out in a detention centre and public sentiment was white hot against asylum seekers.
In by far the most devastating of what president Giorgio Napolitano called a "succession of true slaughters of innocents" to occur off Italy's coast, at least 114 African migrants, including at least three children, died after their boat sank in waters near the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.
We did not expect the international community to allow Assad to kill the Syrian people Abu Salih We brought two ambulances from Hamburg but we had a car accident during a heavy snow storm in the Czech Republic, and the ambulances sank in snow.
Another group of migrants are only alive thanks to a quirk of fate: their boat was so rotten it sank almost immediately.
At least 56 sailors have been killed after a Russian fishing trawler sank in the Sea of Okhotsk, raising questions about whether the owner and crew had cut too many corners in pursuit of a big catch.
The ship reportedly sank so quickly that the crew did not have time to send out an official SOS signal.
A separate survey of US households said the unemployment rate sank to 8.5% in December, its lowest level since February 2009.
