Sentence examples for vulnerable ships from inspiring English sources

Task-force commanders gain a clearer picture of vulnerable ships' locations.

But in west Africa the most vulnerable ships are either at anchor or are lining up to come in and out of port.

We need to move away from the large and vulnerable ships, the fixed bases, and the short-range aircraft and munitions upon which we have long relied.

For pirates off the Somali coast, this means protecting vulnerable ships.

Securing the world's most vulnerable shipping lanes requires multilateral coordination.

It turned out that it was far more profitable to simply skip the legal requirements and board any vulnerable ship, no matter whether it was flying the flag of friend or foe.

Company Chief Executive Michael Dell has told employees that creating an "armada" of businesses rather than one vulnerable "ship" (or Titanic) helps insulate the company from crisis should one of the businesses hit choppy waters.

And the stabilisers on big cruisers only work in moderate seas and when the ship is moving.Pontoon-type structures, or giant barges, are the cheapest of the three options, but they are even more vulnerable than ships to choppy seas.

To find out just what whales were doing that made them so vulnerable to ships, Parks and her colleagues tagged whales in Cape Cod Bay in April of 2009 and 2010.

The larger, more heavily armed monitors and were to keep the ironclad ram away from the vulnerable wooden ships while they were passing Fort Morgan and then sink her.

Thus, any attempted invasion of the US would first look like a rather motley caravan of vulnerable civilian ships and aircraft.