Sentence examples for western ships from inspiring English sources
For days, western ships moored just off the shore refused to rescue them.
Asian intermediaries were trying to negotiate a compromise that would allow many more Western ships to deliver relief supplies.
The approach: Western ships, U.S. drones, African soldiers and international money for the Transitional Federal Government in Mogadishu.
No, this is not President Bush versus Saddam Hussein, but Thomas Jefferson versus the Barbary pirates of North Africa, who were plundering Western ships and enslaving their crews.
The United States government has issued a warning that American or other Western ships off the coast of East Africa may be the target of a terrorist attack involving speedboats.
Yet Europe rose while the Muslim world rested on its laurels -- until it was besieged by Western ships, armaments, iron goods and cheap textiles, to all of which it became harder and harder to respond.
"We are all very proud and delighted to be the first Western shipping company which has successfully transited the legendary Northeast Passage and delivered the sensitive cargo safely through this extraordinarily demanding sea area," Mr. Stolberg said in a statement.
Rats first arrived as stowaways in Western sailing ships and are a problem because they eat native tortoise and bird eggs.
"The Abbott government has gagged debate in the parliament to avoid being held to account for seeking to discredit a Western Australian shipping company representative who blew the whistle on the job-destroying nature of proposed new shipping laws".
Among the annual observances for him in Japan are those held in Hirado (May) and in Itō, Shizuoka prefecture (August), the latter commemorating the place where the first Western-style ships were built and launched.
Adams oversaw the construction of Western-style ships, wrote letters on behalf of the shogun encouraging Dutch and English traders to come to Japan, and then officiated between the shogunate and the traders who began visiting the country.
