Sentence examples for to tow back from inspiring English sources

Now aware of Australia's new policy to tow back boats, attempts have stopped but the minors are stranded in Indonesia.

The vessel was meeting the Triton, another Customs vessel, to deliver one of the orange lifeboats for the Triton to tow back to Indonesian waters.

Donald Rothwell, a professor of international law at the Australian National University, said in a submission to the Senate inquiry into the breaches: "Australia has no legal basis to tow back asylum seeker vessels into the Indonesian territorial sea.

With several other delayed trains having been returned to their destination, the Eurostar 9055 service, which left Paris at 19.13 on Tuesday, was then unable to return to the French capital due to a technical fault, and had to be towed back to the Calais-Fréthun station.

Finishing a single leg of the trip requires considerable stamina and concentration in the face of arch boredom: the vehicle constantly lists to the right, so players cannot take their hands off the virtual wheel; swerving from the road will cause the bus's engine to stall, forcing the player to be towed back to the beginning.

On the morning of 27 February the ship entered the East River preparatory to leaving New York, but proved to be all but unsteerable and had to be towed back to the navy yard.

Cornwallis ordered the merchant ships released to continue their journey and for the frigate to be towed back to Mahé, where it was anchored in the roads with its sails and topmasts struck.

All asylum-seekers arriving in Australia by boat are now to be towed back to Indonesia by the navy, where it is safe to do so.

But those who couldn't swim had to be towed back to the wreckage by those who could.

On the return trip of another pole-drilling expedition, one of the snowmobiles had caught on fire, and had to be towed back to camp.

That would enable sailors to get the ship to dockside, in Aden or elsewhere, where more extensive repairs could be made that would allow the Cole to be towed back to its home port of Norfolk, Va.