Sentences with phrase «high seas act»

The Jones Act (originally called the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 and sometimes referred to as the Death on the High Seas Act) provides injured seamen with the right to bring legal action against the employer for damages resulting from his or her injuries on the vessel.

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These include the Death on the High Seas Act, the Jones Act and International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS).

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An act of God on the high seas threatens to destroy the ship and all aboard.

City - sized maps of terrain and life on the sea - floor have revealed that drifts of «marine snow» on submarine hillsides act as a source of food to fuel a higher biomass of marine life on the hills than on the flatter plains surrounding hills.

First the spruce and white pine trees that cover High Island materialize from the fog, then the rocky headland, and finally the sea, as if the mere act of watching has drawn them all into existence.

The loggerhead sea turtle is listed as threatened (likely to become endangered, in danger of extinction, within the foreseeable future) under the U.S. Federal Endangered Species Act and internationally it is listed as endangered (facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

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Adventure on the high seas finds Benjamin Bratt as a scavenger on the run, who agrees to act as a courier for a rich tycoon.

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Spencer Averick — «13th,» «Selma» Alexandre de Franceschi — «Lion,» «Bright Star» Keiko Deguchi * — «God Knows Where I Am,» «Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus» Tracy Granger — «Still Life,» «Boys Don't Cry» Sabine Hoffman — «Maggie's Plan,» «Elvis & Nixon» Edie Ichioka — «The Boxtrolls,» «Toy Story 2» Janus Billeskov Jansen * — «The Hunt,» «The Act of Killing» Céline Kélépikis — «The Red Turtle,» «Now or Never» Melissa Kent — «American Pastoral,» «The Age of Adaline» Juan Carlos Macías — «Wild Horses,» «The Official Story» Jim May — «Goosebumps,» «The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe» Fredrik Morheden — «A Man Called Ove,» «The New Country» Christopher Murrie * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «Coraline» Tania Michel Nehme — «Tanna,» «Charlie's Country» Tia Nolan — «Annie,» «Friends with Benefits» Anne Østerud — «The Hunt,» «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» Gregory Perler — «Sing,» «Despicable Me» Jacopo Quadri — «Fire at Sea,» «The Dreamers» Fabienne Rawley — «Zootopia,» «MonsterHouse» Jake Roberts — «Hell or High Water,» «Brooklyn» Hayedeh Safiyari — «The Salesman,» «A Separation» Nat Sanders — «Moonlight,» «Short Term 12» Per Sandholt — «Land of Mine,» «A Funny Man» Suzanne Spangler — «Imperial Dreams,» «Smashed» Molly Malene Stensgaard — «Land of Mine,» «Melancholia» Alexandra Strauss — «I Am Not Your Negro,» «A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence» Christian Wagner — «The Fate of the Furious,» «Furious Seven» Monika Willi — «Amour,» «The Piano Teacher» Kate Williams — «The Whole Truth,» «Frozen River» Dan Zimmerman — «The Dark Tower,» «The Maze Runner» Lucia Zucchetti — «Their Finest,» «The Queen» Eric Zumbrunnen — «Her,» «Adaptation»

The Recovery Act provides $ 10 billion in additional Title I, Part A funds to state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to support schools that have high concentrations of students from families that live in poverty in order to help improve teaching and learning for students most at risk of failing to meet state academic achievement standards.

Whales migrate to Cabo not just for the warm water, but also because of the high salt content in the Sea of Cortez, which acts like a pain reliever for mothers giving birth.

Here, atop the high seas — water, water, everywhere — the developer draws inspiration from the parched deserts of Far Cry 2, favouring the physical act — and physicality — of doing over timers and quick time events.

Here, atop the high seas — water, water, everywhere — the developer draws inspiration from the parched deserts of Far Cry 2, favouring the physical act — and physicality — of

She turns up the retinal volume again and again in the grounds of her paintings — vast seas of cerulean blue edged by crisp white lines, or enveloping acts of domestic violence; equally riveting cadmium reds, oranges, and crimsons saturating the picture plane beneath angry gorillas, dancing Chubby Checkers, and kissing lovers; Day - Glo yellows that push up against sharp blacks as «bad guys» in black suits point guns and walk up and down staircases — and employs unusual compositional strategies to draw our attention to these expanses of high - key color.

Tompkins makes her material sing anew — formally and thematically; a transubstantiation of medium and meaning occurs that, in its fearless collision with normative culture through crops and alteration, becomes a feminist act, an exemplar of female agency in a sea of high capitalist consumerism that would otherwise deny it.

However, sea ice then grows very rapidly, since the growth rate for thin ice is much higher than for thick ice, which acts as a negative feedback on thickness during the growth season (Bitz and Roe, 2004; Notz, 2009).

The change in radiation balance is more heating of the oceans at one side (specifically high in the subtropics, as expected), but more heat released at higher altitudes, thus somewhere acting as a net negative feedback to higher sea surface temperatures.

Nowadays only the sea surface warming expressed by Endersbee seems to make higher portions of manmade CO2 in atmosphere possible, as the warming of the as sinks acting sea surfaces at the higher latitudes makes absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere become slower.

This is the act of transferring fish from smaller vessels to a large «mothership» (or «factory» ship), usually on the high seas far from shore.

During an interval when sea level is forced upward from a major low stand by a Milankovitch response acting either alone or in combination with an internally driven, higher - frequency process, ice sheets grounded on continental shelves become unstable, mass wasting accelerates, and the resulting deglaciation sets the phase of one wave in the train of 100,000 - year oscillations.

Representing a cruise line's chief engineer in a federal grand jury investigation for alleged Clean Water Act violations regarding oil pollution on the high seas.

1698 Another Treaty of The Hague 1698 Piracy Act — making piracy illegal on high seas (so far as England was concerned).

Section 26 (3) of the Native Title Act limits the right to negotiate to acts that relate «to a place that is on the landward side of the mean high - water mark of the sea».

He found that the High Court's apparent endorsement of that case in the Sea and Submerged Lands Act case (59) was really only an acknowledgement of the state of the law at the time of Federation in 1901.