Sentence examples for their tanker from inspiring English sources
They argued that their tanker had already been ordered by Australia and Saudi Arabia while Boeing had only a "paper plane".
The crew calls their tanker a "flying gas station".A dozen of these sorties depart daily from the Manas airbase outside Bishkek, in Kyrgyzstan, accounting for about 30% of the total refuelling missions over Afghanistan.
American oil companies, with Greek shipowners riding piggyback, switched their tanker fleets to Liberia to avoid high labour costs at home (American-registered ships are required by law to use expensive American crews).
EADS and Airbus executives, in a series of briefings and interviews over the weekend, maintained that their tanker proposal, based on the Airbus A330 jet, was the best that technology could provide.
Under pressure from low-cost rivals in South Korea and China, Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries and Sumitomo Heavy Industries said that they would combine their tanker and warship divisions into a 50-50 joint venture, to be called Marine United, in October 2002.
"A lot of the contractors who won the oil companies' business won it on the professional skills and expertise of their tanker drivers.
They can't let their tankers go, they argue, because their drivers have been intimidated.
The Chinese have already grown increasingly uneasy as their tankers have brought ever more oil from the Middle East under the watchful eye of the American navy.
Meanwhile, the Kurds began to unilaterally export their own oil, in a fly-by-night operation that sent their tankers, with satellite beacons switched off, searching the seas for buyers.
He has asked fire departments in all surrounding towns to keep their tankers full and at the city's disposal, just in case, and he has asked residents to give their plants just enough water to keep them alive.
Boeing, which builds planes in Washington, has the support of that state's Congressional delegation, while Northrop Grumman and EADS have political champions in Alabama, where they said they would assemble their tankers.
