Sentences with word «aground»

The capital drought afflicting high tech is rippling through the real estate sector as real estate dot - coms run aground, jettison unprofitable lines of business, merge with competitors, and redouble their efforts to attract new investment.

I have held countless open houses and never ran aground because I always maintained client confidentiality, and performed to the absolute best of my ability.

I expected you to be all over my post like an overloaded underpowered leaky tramp steamer mistakenly heading for the lighthouse in a thick pea soup fog, not realizing that to get to the lighthouse you must first miss the harbour inlet and run aground and wreck on the rocks of pomposity.

Have you taken part in training workshops in the past and enthusiastically tried out new interventions only to find it runs aground and there's nowhere to turn for guidance?

Helping you to keep the keel in the water and not allowing your ship to run aground.

Though Mr. Vayner's attempt did not bode well with the establishments he was seeking employment with, the idea of a video resume didn't completely run aground.

(Columbus is just a metaphor though, I won't be taking the Santa Maria [which ran aground off Haiti on Christmas Day 1492] or any other galleon.

In case, Apple's privacy policy is at odds with these rules, its efforts to expand in the country will run aground.

LeEco's ambitious, debt - driven expansion began running aground last year, causing angry creditors to stage sit - ins at the company's Beijing office and leading courts to take action.

If an accident occurs on the water, including running aground or hitting a stationary object, you are required to report any damage over $ 2,000, along with any injury that may have occurred.

Emergency teams have been called into action to rescue passengers missing after their cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, ran aground off the coast of Italy, near the island of Giglio.

That's what happened when the Empress of the North, operating by Majestic America Line of Seattle, ran aground southwest of Juneau Alaska in 2007 (although the reports of passenger care and was far different than those coming from the passengers of the Costa Concordia).

Innovations often run aground on competitors» patents.

He ties the recall petition to a host of issues in which progressive commitment to due process, basic defendant rights, and judicial independence have run aground in cases of sexual violence, with the ordinarily progressive position abandoned; these include victim - impact statements, propensity evidence in sexual - violence cases, the right to confront witnesses, and general abandonment of due process in campus sexual assault.

• Meeting the demands of cargo owners affected by maritime disasters such as vessels running aground;

Issues of principle in relation to the recoverability of inter company debt as an out of pocket expense in addition to technical issues as to dangers while aground.

So when Dix nixed expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline that ships oil from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., ostensibly because of environmental concerns (and to win back environmental New Democrats who were leaking — if not gushing — into the Green camp), his campaign may have run aground, and his comments may have angered members of the B.C. and Yukon Territories Building and Construction Trades Council, who were counting on the union jobs that the project would create.

This would actually be a richer, deeper ocean, but one with buoys and lighthouses to keep client's from running aground on shallow and repetitive marketing material.

The lesson is that you have to avoid doing the «stupid stuff» to deliver great work, and running aground because we weren't all on the same page certainly goes in the stupid - stuff column.

After the vessel allegedly ran aground, the start - up company made multiple insurance claims.

One of Britain's most precious maritime treasures now looks like it has run aground in a giant greenhouse.

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In January, a Moldovan cargo ship ran aground near the popular beach resort of Kilyos, spilling 96 tons of fuel oil and 25 tons of diesel oil into the area's bays and out to sea.

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The tanker Exxon Valdez, captained by the now infamous Joseph Hazelwood, ran aground on Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef, spilling more than 10.8 million US gallons (40.9 million liters) of crude oil into the sensitive natural coastline.

Since the Rena, a Liberian ship, ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand 10 days ago, an environmental catastrophe has been brewing.

The risk of transporting volatile materials via barge was made evident on April 4, 2017, when a vessel carrying 60,000 barrels of gasoline ran aground on the river's west side just offshore the Village of Catskill.

Apparently the Aurora Australis broke mooring during a blizzard and ran aground (on ice?)

«The U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Dutch Shell were fighting 70 mile - per - hour winds and 40 - foot swells as they tried to assess damage to a floating oil drilling ship that ran aground on a remote Alaskan island.»

Despite these triumphs, the floating sector is still ploughing through choppy waters, with notable projects having been delayed in recent weeks, as Scotland's 50MW Kincardine project ran aground due to a disagreement between partners, and 10MW Dounreay Tri, fell afoul of a funding gap.

Gladstone is a cyclone - exposed city on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef, where a Chinese coal ship ran aground in 2010.

Instead, the iceberg ran aground and stalled out.

Today, six decades after the IWC formed, and a quarter century after its adoption of the moratorium, it is not only legally valid, but abundantly justified by current environmental circumstances, for the IWC to place greater emphasis on conservation rather than maintaining a commercial whaling industry which has so thoroughly run aground in terms of its acceptability to the global community.

IMO took over responsibility for this treaty in 1959, but it was not until 1967, when the tanker Torrey Canyon ran aground off the coast of the United Kingdom and spilled more than 120,000 tons of oil into the sea, that the shipping world realized just how serious the pollution threat was.

Modern double hull oil tankers are not as susceptible to spills, but the many small ships (especially low budget, unlicensed ships) carrying goods of all types can and do run aground, causing smaller spills.

He sent me a link to an article he wrote for the then fledgling BBC News website back in 1999, a few years after the oil tanker Sea Empress ran aground on the coast of Wales, spilling more than 72,000 tonnes of crude along a coastline that's a favourite for ramblers and nature enthusiasts, not to mention the fishing grounds.

1990: The first climate - related shareholder resolution at Exxon came a year after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, creating what was then the nation's largest oil spill and most notorious human - caused environmental disaster.

Four years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, herring stocks collapsed and a marked decline was seen in salmon populations.

Would you think billions in additional punative damages would be in order if one of those happened to run aground?

On Dec. 4 the ship ran aground and began leaking fuel.

Just over one year after the polar cruise ship MV Explorer sank off Antarctica, another such ship, the MV Ushuaia, has run aground on rocks in the same area.

Things were very different in 1972, when the Explorer, then owned by Lindblad Expeditions, the company that built it in 1969, had to be evacuated after it ran aground on rocks in a storm in the same region.

The small cruise ship that ran aground along the Antarctic Peninsula last week and spilled some fuel was hauled off the rocks by a Chilean Navy tug boat, according to the Associated Press and Jon Bowermaster, who's in the region on another vessel.

Although not solely a tourist ship, the Argentine Navy supply ship Bahia Paraiso carrying up to 82 paying tourists ran aground and sank off of Palmer Station on Jan 28, 1989.

- Family Life on the Frontier (prior to 1845, Anschutz Collection, Denver)- Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (1845, Metropolitan Museum of Art)- The Concealed Enemy (1845, Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas)- The Jolly Flatboatmen (1846, Manoogian Collection, Taylor, Michigan)- Boatmen on the Missouri (1846, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)- Landscape with Cattle (1846, St. Louis Art Museum)- Lighter Relieving a Steamboat Aground (1846 - 47, The White House)- Raftsmen Playing Cards (1847, St. Louis Art Museum)- Captured by Indians (1848, St. Louis Art Museum)- Country Politician (1849, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)- Shooting for the Beef (1850, Brooklyn Museum, New York)- Mississippi Boatman (1850, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC)- The Squatters (1850, Museum of Fine Arts Boston)- The Emigration of Daniel Boone (1851, Washington University, St. Louis)- Trapper's Return (1851, Detroit Institute of Arts)- Canvassing for a Vote (1851 - 52, Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City)- Fishing on the Mississippi (1851 - 52, Nelson - Atkins Museum, Kansas City)- The Storm (1852 - 53, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford)- Deer in Stormy Landscape (1852 - 53, Anschutz Collection, Denver)- Western Boatmen Ashore by Night (1854, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth)- Stump Speaking (1853 - 54, St. Louis Art Museum)- View of a Lake in the Mountains (1855, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)- Washington Crossing the Delaware (1856, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia)- Martial Law or Order No. 11 (1870, State Historical Society of Missouri)- View of Pikes Peak (1872, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas)

While the Whitney's history has been characterised by a certain wanderlust (the Piano building will mark its fourth location in a little over 80 years), the decision to leave Breuer's celebrated 1966 design has been a difficult one, as is suggested by the six expansion plans for the site that the museum had previously authorised, each of which subsequently ran aground.

It represents a boat that might have come aground.

Speaking of sailing, it takes a more horizontal shape along Ganesvoort Street, where one enters, like a luxury liner run aground.

Crashing into New York's Meatpacking district, like some great Arctic icebreaker washed up from the Hudson and run aground on the High Line, the new Whitney museum makes an unlikely container for a beacon of modern art.

The most aggressive players will attack and hope to stun or take out the enemy before their health meter runs aground.