Sentence examples for stoker from inspiring English sources

By 1866 Helen Bruce had been working in male dress since she was 17, as an errand boy, shop lad, ship's stoker, tallyman at a mine, and clerk.

He was working as a stoker on a Brazilian ship in 1922 when the ship on which he was working burned at the dock, stranding him in the United States.

It is then deposited into a hopper and chute above the furnace and released onto a charging grate or stoker.

She defended the film at a special screening of her new film Stoker at the Curzon Soho, saying: "I wanted to be respectful of her, her story and her essence so hopefully that will all come through".

He served as a stoker on the Ark Royal but was given a dishonourable discharge after threatening to throw his commanding officer overboard.

To Anna, as she bathes her upturned face in the fog, the sea represents a chance of purification, a conviction that seems to be reinforced when a storm flings a soaking, bare-chested Irish stoker, Mat Burke, aboard.

But his idealism made him one of tens of thousands of the brightest and best Czechs and Slovaks to be purged after the Soviet-led invasion of 1968 crushed the reformist hopes of the Prague Spring.The urbane, polyglot Mr Dienstbier took a series of menial jobs, before settling down to work as a furnace-stoker on the Prague subway.

It's about national politicians accepting that local politicians might know what they're doing Gerry Stoker, professor of politics at the University of Southampton, argues that while the strongest force behind the 1997 Labour government's devolution programme was a grassroots movement in Scotland, the business community was crucial in building the case for a mayor in London.

His first initiative galvanised Durham students who have also been supported by local councillor David Stoker who says: I'm pleased the application has been withdrawn.

A short war is likely to cost £3.5 billion, says Mark Stoker, defence economist at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

You are wrong to quote approvingly figures produced by Gerry Stoker of Strathclyde University, showing that local authorities elsewhere in Europe raise even less of their own money overall than authorities in Britain.