Sentences with phrase «lifeboat if»

(There is an incredible old photo of some folks pulling a large boat through town at this link: Port Isaac Lifeboat if you'd like to see it!)

Quite a few speculators believe bitcoin cash might be a lifeboat if

His side sees indie as a threat, so he can't be too supportive, even if, inwardly, he sees it as a possible lifeboat if Manhattan tradpub starts taking on too much water.

With cost containment becoming the new buzzword in medicine — particularly given the much - ridiculed but far from unreasonable apprehension that the Affordable Care Act could lead to «death panels» — a reader may worry that Gawande recommends forcing the weakest and most vulnerable out of the lifeboat if they refuse to jump themselves.

Not exact matches

I suggested that perhaps the lifeboats on the Titanic point to a more general sense that the stronger in a dangerous situation are morally compelled to protect the weaker in a dangerous situation, and that mothers can be awfully protective of their children after all, and that a man who (for whatever reason) might be weaker than a woman in a given situation should not feel like less of a man if she protects him.

Might it be fair to argue that, if allocative lifeboat or triage decisions must be made, that it is this principle of love, rather than any other consideration, which should guide such decisions?

If it came to light that decisions of the triage / lifeboat variety were being made in the distribution of our excess food resources, not for the sake of long - range survival and well - being of the greatest number based upon utilitarian calculation, but rather for the rawest, most crass and most selfish political reasons, would this not indeed have a devastating effect on the American moral consciousness?

There's an old joke that if the boat is sinking and there's only one lifeboat, who are you going to take with you, your husband or your kids?

Even if your baby is clinging to your breast like it's the last lifeboat off a sinking ship, wailing for another nursing session and, over-all, making you feel like total crap about weaning, know that your decision to wean, even if the only reason is «I really don't want to nurse anymore, I'm done» is still the best decision.

Second, that if every ship is sinkable, it should carry at least a sufficient number of lifeboats to take care of every person on board until other ships, summoned by wireless, can reach the scene of a disaster.

«Status has its obvious rewards in a modern, stratified society — if you were on the sinking Titanic in 1912 and you were high status, then it was more likely there was a place for you on one of the lifeboats,» said Michael Gurven, professor of anthropology at UCSB and senior author of the paper.

At one point, crewmembers making the documentary debate what they would do if they were in a lifeboat the night the Titanic sunk.

Despite overwhelming odds, four men, led by Coast Guard Capt. Bernie Webber (Pine), set out in a wooden lifeboat with an ill - equipped engine and little, if any, means of navigation, facing frigid temperatures, 60 - foot high waves and hurricane - force winds.

It didn't happen when Amazon launched KDP, if anything, that was a lifeboat for authors (more channels are always better).

And if I was a Blue author, I'd start quietly moving towards the lifeboats and just happen to have my lifejacket (friends on the Red Ship and lots of scurrilous stories about Blue editors to tell them) handy.

If you want to keep from having completely full lifeboats, then you need to do two things:

Wide access entrance doors mean it is easy to move around the boat and there are life jackets for all passengers and crew, coupled with eight lifeboats, each with a capacity of 25 passengers, enabling a total evacuation if there is an emergency.

If someone asked you to balance a dinner plate on your hand; then placed a bunch of marbles that have their own individual take on the concept of gravity on the plate; then they asked you to kindly manage to balance the plate in just the right way to cause them to fall in to pockets on the side of the plate; you'd have a fair idea of what to expect with Lifeboat by Fuel Games.

Now he's gone; fleeing to the mobile and social sector that he, rightly or wrongly, portrays as if it were a lifeboat escape from a sinking tanker of discs and boxes.

So far, most newspapers in North America and Europe will not print any reportage about polar cities because such an idea is deemed to be scaremongering and doomsdayish, when in fact, it is neither: polar cities might serve as lifeboats, arks, for the human species, if worst comes to worst.

If Roy Heenan is correct, the partners who bolted for the lifeboats, viewed clients as nothing more than portable commodities to be flaunted in front of other law firms for the sole purpose of obtaining the maximum annual draw.

Then, back up that drill with practice of your own to be sure the kid can find their muster station on their own (there's no need to return to the cabin if there's no time because there are life jackets at the kids» clubs, muster stations, and in the lifeboats).

• Vessels only propelled by oars or paddles • Non-motorized sailboats that are 8 feet in length (most jet skis, wave runners) • Surfboards or sailboards • A ship's lifeboat (does not include dinghies) • Vessels currently registered in another state (if used primarily outside California)