Sentences with phrase «because of sinking ships»

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Did you ever hear the story of a fancy ship that ran into an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank as a result, killing more than half of the people on board because there were not enough lifeboats?

Partly because of bad luck in the sinking of a ship containing Wallace's collection of specimens, he produced nothing remotely like the immense mass of facts assembled by the primary founder of the new science of living things.

Only some Democrats, sensing the ship to be sinking, latched onto the stratagem of trying to «localize» their contests — not because the politics of 2010 really were local, but because they were not.

I think he retired because he new the team was getting older, it is kind of the sinking ship situation.

I was on another ship and we were the first to arrive and witness both the passengers who float [ing] in their lifeboats and then the sinking of this 40 - year - old ship, which gave everyone caution because, of course, it suggests that, you know, there but for the grace of someone go I.

When wives went to collect the paychecks of their dead husbands in Southampton, they discovered that the men's pay had ended when the Titanic sank, because under British maritime law the crew members were paid by the ship, not the steamship line.

Getting the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew off the ship as quickly as possible was imperative because the ship was in danger of shifting and sinking.

Though there won't be any ships literally sinking because of something like Marvel movie news, loose lips among the actors in the Marvel Cinematic Universe may have dropped some information about one of the comic giant's biggest kept secrets.

To dismiss self - publishing out of hand may be to refuse to jump in the lifeboat because you want to stay on board the sinking ship...

The loans had very high interest rates, because under the terms of the loan, if the ship sank or the voyage did not succeed, the merchant did not have to repay the loan.

Wii U had momentum because of Mario Kart and Smash the only big franchises they have left, Zelda is a sinking ship and has been for a while its no longer the sales monster it used to be and with the fanbase so divided lately it might turn out to be a dud anyways.

Theres a bunch of people hosting beginner online lobbies / instances that you can join to help earn XP and rank your stuff up, without fear of constantly being sunk because you're a low level ship.

To suggest that because near surface temperatures have flattened at or near the highest on record requires «abandoning» a sinking ship is to be grossly underinformed about the full scope and scale of the multiple changes going on and the confidence that anthropogenic climate continues unabated as it will so long as humans continue to increase greenhouse gas concentrations.

A law firm that represented two divers who claimed to have found emeralds from a sunken ship is now facing a request for sanctions because of its actions in the...

«The captain of the Titanic had such a great safety record that when the great ship struck an iceberg, precious hours were lost because the possibility of sinking was so far beyond his experience.