Sentence examples for shipbuilders of the from inspiring English sources

When John first came to Whatcom County, in 1981, he was thirty years old and, by most reckonings, a failure, living from hand to mouth as an occasional electrostatic-spray painter for the big shipbuilders of the Washington coast, making good money for a couple of months and then spending a whole season out of work.

Yet the intrepid shipbuilders of the Netherlands launched vessels by the tens of thousands during the 1600s, and the Dutch ruled the known — to Europeans — aquatic universe until the British caught up and surpassed them by the end of the century.

Born in Govan, Reid rose to international prominence when he led a "work-in" of thousands of shipbuilders on the Clyde during 1971 and 1972, thwarting government attempts to close the yards.

Although the shipbuilders on the Zaan, northwest of Amsterdam, and the sugar refiners in particular developed large-scale operations, sometimes including machinery, Dutch industry generally remained small in scale, as indeed nearly all manufacturing was in the 17th century.

Gary Cook, GMB regional officer, said: "Not only is the coalition government prepared to throw more than 1,000 highly skilled shipbuilders on the scrapheap, many of whom will be destined for a life on benefits, but they are also playing fast and loose with the national security of these British isles by having no plan B for warship building.

In 1869 he was elected president of the Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Glasgow.

The Times took a different track, accusing American shipbuilders of slashing prices to an obscene degree, and accusing the government of exerting undue diplomatic pressure to obtain the contracts.

Son of Richard Cozens, shipbuilder to the tsar of Russia, Alexander settled in England after visiting Rome in 1746 and became a fashionable drawing master.

The sale of the nationalized British Shipbuilders to the private sector accelerated the decline in the number of major shipyards in Scotland.

Mick feels guilty because the cancer was probably caused by his exposure to asbestos during his years working as a shipbuilder on the Clyde; within weeks of burying Cathy, he takes to sleeping in the garden shed.

One Navy officer explicitly tied his concern to "the down select" -- the moment of truth when the government was supposed to choose between the two rival models, declaring one team of shipbuilders the winner and another the loser in this multi-billion-dollar shipbuilding competition.