Sentence examples for tanker over from inspiring English sources

It said the specifications unfairly favored Boeing's smaller, 767-based tanker over the Airbus A330 airframe that EADS has pitched.

One of the truck's wheels appeared to burst as the vehicle sped before dawn through a turn in an outlying neighborhood of Port Harcourt, tipping the tanker over and sending the fuel spilling across cars and into shop doors before igniting in a fireball, witnesses said.

It wouldn't have been hard, because the Air Force methodology for comparing the EADS and Boeing planes actually understated the cost of owning the much bigger European tanker over a 40-year service life.

Officers in charge of training here say they're trying to manage with two-thirds less time available to rendezvous with a tanker over the western United States.

Through its emergency and development operations, UNICEF will tanker over 300 million litres of safe drinking water to communities without access, distribute water and hygiene kits to up to 120,000 families in crisis and work with government and other Agencies to rehabilitate water and sanitation networks in nine governorates reaching 1.8 million people.

The hardline Blairite business secretary John Hutton declares today's walkout by Shell tanker drivers over pay "cannot be justified" (what strike ever could be in the eyes of Hutton and his friends?).

Police officials yesterday indefinitely reduced the speed limit to 30 miles an hour from 45 along a small stretch of Route 9A in Westchester County where a gasoline tanker flipped over in a fiery crash Wednesday night.

But not for long: leviathans with twice that capacity are on their way.A far greater stir had been caused some 50 years earlier when the Ideal-X, an oil tanker left over from the second world war, berthed at Newark, New Jersey.

One of the most dramatic was discovered 50 years ago when Malcom McLean, a American trucking magnate, reinforced the decks of the Ideal-X, an oil tanker left over from the second world war, and loaded it with 58 large metal boxes containing goods that would normally have travelled as loose cargo.

It says this is no longer urgent after the Unite union ruled out a strike by its tanker drivers over Easter.

A gasoline tanker flipped over and caught fire at the nearby 2 Freeway transition to the 5 Freeway and spilled some of the 7,000 gallons of gasoline it was carrying.