Sentence examples for shipping poor from inspiring English sources

We just keep on shipping poor goals.

He was so pissed, he threatened to ship poor Ernest off to Alaska for incompetence.

The Ottoman Navy had languished since the 1870s, the result of decades of little funding for new ships, poor maintenance of existing vessels, and no serious training regimen.

Having had no anti-shipping attack training, their ability to inflict damage to the ships was poor.

Surplus was shipped to poor countries as food aid.

(Brown gained fame for lobbying to return for shipmates dying in the water and later led a committee of survivors to assist the ship's poor and widowed).

Not only are most of the ships in poor repair, but many sailors and junior officers have rarely or maybe never been at sea.

A political storm erupted over the policy to ship out poor households when it emerged that Labour-run Newham council was planning to move 500 families who relied on housing benefit some 160 miles away, to Stoke-on-Trent.

The Mississippi ships had poor seakeeping qualities making them poor gunnery platforms underway in Atlantic waters.

The ships were poor sailors and their best speed under sail alone was about 11 kn.

The persistent dampness, coupled with the ship's poor ventilation, was blamed for the high incidence of tuberculosis aboard.