Sentence examples for serious ships from inspiring English sources

Yes, the usual orange-tiled roofs spill down a hill to the city center, but vast housing projects are scattered throughout the north side of town, and huge, serious ships sit in Marseille's modern port, a dozen or so cranes and forklifts towering over it, lifting and turning, testimony to construction and economic activity.

While not the largest amphibious-support ships out there, they're still very serious ships that could play an important role in a very serious amphibious force.

So far, there have been no reports of serious shipping miscues, either, although such tales typically do not emerge until after the holiday, when disappointed friends and relatives begin comparing notes on the organic pears that are missing or the Irish fisherman sweaters that never arrived.

"No serious ship owner will be ready to do that," Yurchenko told the BBC Russian Service.

At a meeting in Westminster organised by the Arctic Methane Emergency Group (Ameg), Prof Salter told MPs that the situation in the Arctic was so serious that ships might take too long.

I cleared my desk of action figures, toys and comics so that it felt like a serious space ship.

The long delay strained Broussard and Miller's relationship, and by the end of 2006, Broussard appeared to become serious about shipping the title.

Unique features of the Arctic region, such as sub-zero temperatures and glacial activities, pose serious risk to ships.

There was another, less serious collision between ships in a particularly contentious campaign (which averaged 1.4 million viewers an episode, making it Animal Planet's second most popular show after "River Monsters").

If strong winds are blowing offshore, situations can arise where mean water levels in a bay fall significantly, which poses a serious threat for ships tied up at piers.

The "firecracker" mines sowed by CIA-hired commandos working from speedboats were too small to do serious damage to ships, but the outrage they sparked forced Congress to confront squarely the mounting American role in the conflict.