Sentence examples for towing from inspiring English sources

Some, such as towing Arctic icebergs, were dismissed as outlandish.

Yet at the peak of sales in their home market, during the presidency of George W. Bush (a truck fan), nearly a million F-series pickups were sold each year, many to suburban wannabes the industry calls "never-nevers", meaning they never take trucks off-road or use them for towing.

The army's denials have been undercut by photographs obtained by CNN, showing soldiers towing rickety boats full of Rohingyas out to sea and cutting them loose.Thailand's new, fresh-faced, Oxford-educated prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, says that the government will investigate the allegations against the army.

Then on September 27th he called for the airline industry to cut carbon emissions by as much as a quarter through simple expedients such as towing aircraft to runways and gliding them gently to land.Why the outbreak of greenery?

The UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency, has voiced concern about "pushbacks", the coastguards' practice of towing migrant boats back into Turkish territorial waters.

Touts at the checkpoint in Meng'a offer to arrange illegal trips across the river (towing passengers across on tyres, says one, promising "absolute safety").

The drilling rig's difficulties go back to Thursday when it separated from a towing vessel south of Kodiak Island as it was being towed to Seattle for maintenance.

But it is not easy after two decades of mismanagement and kow-towing to the unions, which have left the yards mired in debt and trapped between fixed-price long-term contracts and fast-rising prices for raw materials.

But kow-towing to the Chinese in ignoring human rights crackdowns or burying our heads in the sand over Saudi abuses are simply too high a price to pay for new deals on nuclear power stations, weapons exports or indeed anything else.

An "unthinking, uncritical, kow-towing party line-toeing", he said, "is fatal to a vibrant democracy".

On the St . Lawrence Seawaythe dimensions are approximately 800 by 80 feet; on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, where push-towing units are operating, the dimensions rise to 1,200 by 110 feet.