Sentence examples for shipbuilding for from inspiring English sources

His father had been Stalin's minister of shipbuilding for 17 years, commemorated with a bronze plaque in the Kremlin wall.

Scotland's Clydeside dominated world shipbuilding for three generations and then took a quarter of a century to hand the baton over to South Korea and Japan.

As a separate British colony, Nova Scotia had prospered from its forestry, fisheries, and shipbuilding for the first two-thirds of the 19th century.

Last year it bought Litton Industries for $5.1 billion and Newport News Shipbuilding for $2.6 billion, raising its debt to $5 billion at the end of 2001, compared with $1.3 billion a year earlier.

Playing among the materials, tracing a fingertip along the mast of a tall ship or walking with arms outstretched for balance atop planks of lumber brings home the idea of shipbuilding for children.

In shipbuilding, for instance, he wants a merger of BAE's shipyards with those of VT, another defence firm, to eliminate excess capacity.The new approach requires defence firms to pull up their socks.

The German Hansa merchants traded mainly in fish, notably salted herring and stockfish (dried cod from Norway and Iceland), and also in softwood timber for shipbuilding, hemp for ropes, flax for sailcloth, and grain.

He also showed great concern for shipbuilding and for the extension and protection of commerce.

He discusses which woods to use for specific purposes such as for carpentry, shipbuilding and for building houses, and the making of charcoal.

These activities would have been impossible but for the development of new principles in shipbuilding and for the recent domestication of the Arabian camel and its use in the caravan trade.

For instance, part of the Navy's $16.1 billion shipbuilding budget for 2011 includes an extra $2.7 billion Virginia-class submarine, an arguably unnecessary expense in the post-cold war world.