Sentence examples for weak hook from inspiring English sources

The new "weak" hook, as it is known, is aimed at reducing this unintended catch, said John Mitchell, who helped develop it.

Getting rotation from your hips is very important because this will separate your hook from either being a strong hook or a weak hook.

One of the businesses that worked with NOAA on the weak hooks was Mustad of Norway, said Steve Tagami, a sales director at the company.

Chris Rilling, a fishery biologist at NOAA, said experiments by researchers and fishermen showed that these "weak hooks" reduced bycatch of bluefin tuna in the gulf by 56 percent — a considerable success, he said, because bluefin tuna are severely overfished and the Gulf of Mexico is a major spawning ground.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has already taken action to protect bluefin, not just by closing the gulf's bluefin fishery in the 1980's but by requiring weak hooks on longlines that should give way when an animal as strong as a bluefin pulls on it, said Monica Allen, a spokesperson for NOAA fisheries.

The weak-hook ruling by the National Marine Fisheries Service for bluefin bycatch in the Gulf of Mexico is good news, but these gains are diminished by greater bluefin bycatch and discards in the larger United States Atlantic swordfish longline fishery.

It also lets weak governments off the hook.

Leaders in Germany, the strongest European economy, argue that allowing the central bank to turn on the printing press would foster profligacy by taking weak nations off the hook.

There's the workaholic father ("Hook"); the weak or missing father ("Close Encounters," "E.T.," "Empire," "Catch Me If You Can"); and the hyper-responsible father ("War of the Worlds").

Cameron's pragmatism means he sometimes expresses strong views but holds those views weakly, the opposite of some politicians – newspapers and voters too, let's not let them off the hook – who have weak views but express them vehemently until they change their mind or move on.

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