Sentence examples for whaling the from inspiring English sources

"In whaling the natural resource (the stock of whales) was owned by no one," the economists Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, and Karin Gleiter noted in a definitive 1997 analysis of the industry.

I would have composed them right around the time that I was being so intolerant of my mother, and my father was whaling the unkindness out of me.

During the 19th century the island was a base for seal and sea otter hunting and whaling (the decline of sea otters prompted a ban on otter hunting in 1911).

Ryan, who was then forty-six years old, twenty years Ventura's senior, caught Ventura in a headlock and delivered six blows to his head and face, from a distance of about six inches, really whaling the shit out of him.

But that's not the worst; Logan's already on the lam for whaling the tar out of a couple of Cajun cops, and before the book ends he'll have to deal with a hurricane that piles up bodies like cordwood.

Before whaling, the largest population was in the Antarctic, numbering approximately 239,000 (range 202,000 to 311,000).

The accounting above only considers the impact of whaling on the carbon stored in whale populations.

Militant environmentalist group Sea Shepherd annually pursues the whaling fleet through the ocean in the hope of disrupting the hunt.

Following the ruling, Japan agreed to stop whaling in the Antarctic for the foreseeable future.

Bowker first suggested they name the place after the Moby-Dick whaling ship, the Pequod.

Seeing profit in the whale harvest, colonists began shore whaling in the 1650s.