Sentence examples for sinking boats from inspiring English sources

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I warned Tim that Gaddafi would start sinking boats.

Are we going to start sinking boats when they arrive?

According to commentators like Katie Hopkins, who infamously referred to those rescued from sinking boats in the Mediterranean as 'cockroaches', then the solution is little more than a large-scale exercise in pest control.

Rosi's masterstroke was to not approach the hot-button material – of sinking boats, clamouring migrants, bellowing officials – head on, but instead watch it at one remove, through the eyes of the locals on Lampedusa, the Sicilian island that has become a major gateway for the exodus.

Malta, which received a distress signal Thursday from two sinking boats that the migrants had been on for more than a week, asked the Turkish ship, the Pinar E, to pick them up and take them to Italy, Ms. Boldrini said.

In some cases, migrants on sinking boats in the Mediterranean have helped coast guards find them by sending GPS signals from their smartphones.

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Point that sinking boat somewhere else, fella.

In 2007, Marhefka realized that he and the fish were in the same sinking boat.

Drowning in debt, he survived the Mediterranean in a sinking boat and slowly begged and borrowed his way to Calais.

Yesterday, the Australian navy rescued 70 people from a sinking boat in Australian waters in the Indian Ocean.

Not much, it would seem, except to take heart that we were all in the same, sinking boat".

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