Sentences with phrase «human cargo»

The law stated that any British captain found transporting human cargo would be fined # 100 for every slave.

When carrying human cargo, my backseat passengers found sufficient leg - and headroom, and insulation from wind noise was quite good.

If your needs lean more toward the family - friendly side, it's worth skipping over, but you may want to consider paying the $ 800 for the CVT and the $ 1,000 for Honda Sensing if you're going to be hauling precious human cargo around.

Physics dictates that there is an ideal path for an object weighing nearly 1,400 pounds — human cargo included — and traveling 80 mph down a mile - long, curve - riddled, ice - coated chute.

Yet some scientists suggest that even bulky shielding will not protect a Mars - bound human cargo.

Ponicsan also wrote the novel on which the 1973 film The Last Detail was based, about two Vietnam servicemen carrying human cargo across northeastern states in the grip of winter.

The 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe, when fully loaded with human cargo, has a population of seven.

The rear doors swing wide to load extra cargo, but I think human cargo would be a bit cramped back there.

Space for human cargo is equally ample.

Though these trading posts were originally utilized for such items as gold, ivory, timber, and spices, by the late 1400s trade had expanded to include the buying and selling of human cargo in the form of African slaves.

Highlights include The Column (2013), a film by Albanian artist Adrian Paci, which follows a block of marble as it travels over the sea from a quarry in China to Paris; and Just Before Paradise by Turkish artist Cengiz Tekin, which explores human cargo and the migrant crisis.

The Middle Passage was the middle leg of the triangular trade of manufactured goods, crops, and human cargo between Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the colonial era through the 1850s.

Depicting a slave ship that violated the 1807 Slave Importation Act by transporting human cargo from Africa to the coast of Georgia, «Voyager» (1992) was Marshall's first history painting.

Mission controllers at Johnson Space Center in Houston also want to raise their «situational awareness» of the crew — another way of saying they want better ways to spy on their precious human cargo.

John Newton a captain on a slave ship, transformed by prayer and prayer alone mid ocean in the very act of transporting human cargo.

The crackdown on trafficking camps along its border with Malaysia made conditions too risky for people smugglers to land their human cargo, so they simply set them adrift.

She pointed out that smugglers are using claims of «credible fear» to get their human cargo into — and remain in — the United States.

In Somalia, traffickers get around authorities by throwing their human cargo into the water when the authorities give chase.

Like the convict workforce who made up the bulk of the human cargo on the First Fleet, the livestock, purchased mainly at the Cape of Good Hope, were considered necessary to transplant a British society and economy in Antipodean soil.

The upcoming four - hour flight, when the capsule will launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and enter low - Earth orbit, will carry no human cargo.

He and native Congoan Ruffo (Jim Brown) are to oversee the safe passage of a train through hostile enemy territory and bring back some uncut diamonds and a human cargo of fugitives loyal to the Congo cause.

It is up to hero Glen «Lucky» Singer (Robert Urich) to stop the train and rescue the human cargo of TV - movie stereotypes.

But the boat's human cargo is tellingly offscreen, ostensibly in order to lend these scenes a mythic quality.

Among the most recent crop of sport - utility vehicles and crossovers, the Honda Pilot was the one that made the biggest leap forward in terms of tech, power, efficiency, and styling — all while keeping in mind the importance of its human cargo.

The driver aid tech is starting to show its age — particularly the brake - based, rather than steering - based, lane departure prevention system — but the QX80 still does a more than adequate job of keeping its human cargo safe.

It's anonymously handsome, it's quiet and it'll swallow up a road trip's worth of luggage and human cargo.

Kia's new Sedona is a sleek and well - engineered minivan that cossets its human cargo and consumes distances like a transcontinental streamliner.

Kia has sweated the details, delivering a sleek and well - engineered minivan that cossets its human cargo and consumes distances like a transcontinental streamliner.

The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down.

In a short video, John Vaillant explains how a career writing nonfiction led him up to writing his first novel, The Jaguar's Children, narrated by Héctor who is trapped inside an abandoned water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, on the US - Mexico border.

The human cargo was chained and manacled in the hold, where they rolled to the left and then back to the right, their rotations determined by the undulating waves, but on each occasion that the vessel dipped, the cargo received the blessing of a libation of slime.

In many contemporary chronicles, stories of mistreatment were rampant, resulting in a high rate of mortality among the human cargo.

Malcolm Bailey is best known for his late 1960s polymer paintings with collaged images of slave ships and their human cargo — based on 18th century abolitionist diagrams.