Sentence examples for seafarer that from inspiring English sources

In addition to SpongeBob's animated soiree, this half-hour episode features live-action segments with Paqtchy the Pirate, the one-eyed seafarer that lives in tract housing in Encino, Calif., and is the president of the SpongeBob fan club.

The plantations were abandoned by the late 18th-century, as Penang experienced wars from Buginese seafarers that resulted in many gambier plantations being destroyed; contributing to the decline in plantations was the growing popularity of the spice trade that reaped much greater profits.

Meanwhile, the maritime authorities are warning seafarers that a decline in piracy off Somalia is being offset by an increase in incidents off West Africa.

They also say that these ships have low safety standards and no construction requirements, that they "do not enforce safety standards, minimum social standards or trade union rights for seafarers", that they frequently fail to pay their crews, have poor safety records, and engage in practices such as abandoning crewmen in distant ports.

Early in the book, Eric retells a portion of Homer's Odyssey, describing the episode in which Ulysses sails near the land of the Sirens: creatures whose song so attracts seafarers that they sail towards them and crash on the rocks.

Under the Apostleship of the Sea, the church supports a global network of chaplains and seafarer centers that provide pastoral and material aid to mariners.

But what about seafarers' language that you can't print in the newspaper?

Father Chiarello stressed the need to change the circumstances of the world's 1.2 million seafarers, conditions that lead to systematic exploitation, including slavery at sea.

Rick Blears, a spokesman for an advocacy group supporting kidnapped seafarers, Save Our Seafarers, said that Mrs. Tebbutt's release, while welcome, had shown that "the media spotlight is firmly on kidnapped civilians rather than any of the 233 working seafarers who are currently in captivity and have been so many months".

Ed Woods, a 78-year-old retired seafarer, said that losing OTB "would have been tough on us retired people because we have no other place to go".

Joseph Conrad, from an earlier generation of literary seafarers, lamented that "the hand of the engineer tore down the veil of the terrible beauty (of sailing ships)".