Ruth and I hadn't even reached the lake when Dick's substantial pontoon boat hove into view.
For example, a riparian user who builds a marina in order to lease a substantial number of boat slips on a small lake might be making an unreasonable use if this causes crowding on the lake and degrades recreational use by other riparian property owners.
Although George Clooney has a more substantial role as the boat's captain, Billy Tyne, the character remains an enigma.
It is reputedly difficult and time-consuming to catch; a hooked ray may bury itself under large quantities of mud, becoming almost impossible to lift, or drag boats over substantial distances or underwater.
At the same time, the Germans, who had 111 U-boats operational when the unrestricted campaign began, had embarked on an extensive building program that, when weighed against their current losses of one or two U-boats per month, promised a substantial net increase in the U-boats' numbers.
The most substantial was an inflatable rescue boat with three firefighters.
Four years later, the Wyly brothers were substantial contributors to the Swift Boat campaign that raised questions about the war record of Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who was running for president against President Bush.
Thus, CMMB would need to account for the cost of substantial observer coverage – perhaps every boat in a fleet – in order to levy bycatch fees on a vessel-specific basis and thereby maintain individual incentives to reduce bycatch.
He said: "It's like a cottage industry, apart from the fact the illicit salvage boats are dealing with substantial wrecks.
A senior official of Petro Vietnam, Pham Viet Dung, was quoted in the Vietnamese news media as saying that large numbers of Chinese fishing boats, many of them substantial vessels, had recently entered waters claimed by Vietnam.
