Sentence examples for whaling off from inspiring English sources

Talk story about Everett Edwards, and about whaling off the Long Island shores.

Bouquet, a former member of the merchant navy, made his first protest against whaling off Iceland more than 30 years ago.

The New Yorker, August 28 , 1937P. 7 Talk story about Everett Edwards, and about whaling off the Long Island shores.

In February Australia (with quiet sympathy from New Zealand) threatened to take Japan to the International Court of Justice unless it stopped whaling off Antarctica.Against this nastiness, a "peace plan" was unveiled on April 22nd, Earth Day, by the IWC's Chilean chairman, Crishán Maquieira, and his Antiguan deputy, Anthony Liverpool.

The last records of grey whales in the Atlantic appear to coincide with the start of modern whaling off the coast of New England in the early 18th century, with the appearance of "scrag whales" off the island of Nantucket.

It was intended to raise awareness of commercial whaling off the Australian coast, The Telegraph in Britain reported.

In 1975, alarmed by the declining number of whales, the group decided to confront a Soviet whaling fleet off the coast of California.

An excellent story to match, if not one-up, Shackleton's misadventures on the opposite pole, Sandler's latest is the gripping, true account of a mission to rescue eight whaling ships off the coast of Alaska in 1897.

In one of their campaigns beginning in 1974, the group intercepted Russian whaling vessels off the north California coast: it referred to the boats as "sea-going slaughterhouses".

The next morning Erlend said to his wife, Britt: "I had the most horrible dream last night that I met someone in a bar and bought a commercial whaling vessel off him for a quarter of a million without seeing it".

He is a survivor of the Essex, a whaling ship that set off from Nantucket in 1819 and never came back, having been wrecked by a white whale in the Pacific — more desert than sea, as Nickerson recalls.