Sentences with phrase «lifeboat with»

Millions of us being kicked to the curb and too fucking confused and embarrassed to make the ONLY step that makes sense; Admit that we are on an economic, social, and environmental lifeboat with everyone EXCEPT The Establishment.

I'm the captain of a lifeboat with room for 10 people.

The cover of the universally acclaimed Life of Pi by Yann Martel does an excellent job of framing the story and building an emotional connection to the protagonist, a young man trapped on a lifeboat with a ferocious tiger.

Who: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Adil Hussain and Tabu What: The son of a zookeeper is deserted on a lifeboat with a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

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.

They are stuffed into a tiny lifeboat with hardly any visibility from the outside world and their patience lessens by the minute.

«We would be at sea in a lifeboat with no food, no water and no land in sight,» said one veteran Democratic operative who has worked on presidential campaigns, and who, like most people interviewed for this story, asked for anonymity to speak candidly about the former first lady.

Events slowly begin to turn against the pirates, eventually forcing them to make their way back to Somalia in one of the ship's lifeboats with far less in their haul than what they were seeking, except that they take along with them Captain Phillips, hoping to use him for ransom.

Both escaped in lifeboats with their owners, Margaret Hays and Elizabeth Barrett Rothschild.

Not exact matches

Q.: It is assumed in all this that triage and lifeboat ethics currently have the status of policy guidelines and recommendations; the proposals were discussed with a great deal of pessimism at the 1974 World Food Conference in Rome.

An interview with social ethicist Joseph Flecher which delves into the ethical issues of the «triage / lifeboat» approach to world hunger relief.

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.

During the voyage, their ship suddenly sinks, leaving the boy on a lifeboat along with a few furry survivors; ultimately only Pi and a tiger remain.

He's the captain on the Titanic pretending there is not gaping holes in the ship and running ahead unperturbed, and with each foot the water rises in the well, more and more people are taking to the lifeboats.

Paul warned the centurion and the soldiers that unless the sailors remained with the ship none could be saved, so the soldiers cut the ropes and set the lifeboat adrift before the sailors could use it.

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?

It's true that your relationship will never be the same, but with a lot of work and communication, you will build yourselves an unsinkable lifeboat.

My leaving my husband was not retribution for any fault of his, but rather — and I believe this in every core of my being — that we each have the right to choose what ships to go down with versus when to get into a lifeboat and save ourselves emotionally.

Labour retained the seat with 12,493 and sent new MP Emma Lewell - Buck, a descendent of the man who invented the lifeboat, to parliament.

Sleaze probe minister Damian Green poses with a LIFEBOAT as May fights to keep government afloat

But the main reason for dispensing with lifeboats may have been to provide plenty of room for luxurious sundecks and sumptuous parlors for the pleasure of the well - to - do passengers.

Hence, the Titanic sailed with 16 lifeboats capable of accommodating 1,178 human beings out of the 2,200 - plus passengers and crew onboard.

Furthermore, the lifeboats that got away stayed away until after the ship had filled with enough water for her stern to soar into the heavens and the hull to split into two gigantic pieces before plunging two miles down to the ocean floor.

In the end the lifeboats of the Titanic left the ship with nearly 500 fewer lives than they could have saved.

With our best projections in hand as to where the victims might be, we generally deploy helicopters, C - 130 planes, boats called cutters and motor lifeboats to try to find them.

According to a new survey by the website Lifeboat, only a quarter of us report being satisfied with our friendships, and nearly two - thirds of us lack confidence in our closest pals.

As the tale of Titanic passed from generation to generation, the stories of her class structure and the inevitable loss of life on a ship with too few lifeboats, were well told.

One day, a drifting lifeboat washes ashore with a crying baby in it.

The chess game continues on the lifeboat, with Phillips using his knowledge to further distract and confuse his captors.

The set features eight films all together, including two of his early British thrillers (the classic Sabotage with Sylvia Sidney and lighter and lesser Young and Innocent), his World War II drama Lifeboat and all four films made for David Selznick: the Gothic classic Rebecca (Hitchcock's only film to win an Oscar for Best Picture), the Gregory Peck films Spellbound and The Paradine Case, and the romantic masterpiece Notorious.

Years later, when an earthquake ruins their home and kills the male, the grandson of the bears leaves for London in a lifeboat on a cargo boat with nothing but a hat and a can - do attitude and what can only be described as a shit - ton of marmalade, seeking asylum in the house of any Londoners who might take him in.

«Life of Pi» Synopsis: After a harrowing shipwreck, young Pi Patel finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26 - foot lifeboat in shark - infested waters with a 450 - pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

The German earns his keep on the lifeboat by helping out with the navigation and an impromptu amputation, but it soon becomes apparent that he may not be as benign as he lets on.

The entire thing takes place in a single lifeboat, with director Hitchcock not doing many medium or long shots of the lifeboat exterior.

He makes up for it in the next scene, usually with some great overlapping dialogue shots, but Lifeboat's a propaganda picture.

While the Alabama follows the lifeboat, authorities eventually get involved, with the U.S. Navy and Navy SEALs plotting to rescue the kidnapped captain.

In an emergency, KiraVan is equipped with its own «lifeboat» — a one - of - a-kind diesel motorcycle.

I wish there was a secret formula for this, but I'm afraid that this recent run on lifeboats has everything to do with the wonderfully generous folks behind the magic curtain at Amazon.

(I'm going to go with The Lifeboat.)

The Connecticut - based writer follows up her slim, historical debut, The Lifeboat, with a sprawling contemporary story about a two would - be whistleblowers who find themselves questioning the beliefs of a lifetime.

Though it was thrilling to imagine a 16 - year - old boy stranded on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — alone with a 450 - pound tiger — it is quite something to see the scenario in color, on the screen.

Rogan worked in the architecture and engineering fields and raised triplets before turning to novel - writing with The Lifeboat.

No doubt the Booker Prize - winning novel about a boy named Pi stranded on a lifeboat — with a Bengal tiger!

It seems there are some questions about her actions during the two weeks she spent in a small lifeboat on the Atlantic with 38 other survivors of the sinking of the Empress Alexander.

White Star Lines Captain Bruce Ismay, long despised for taking a seat in a lifeboat rather than going down with the ship (a scenario eerily relived in the recent sinking of the Costa Concordia), is casually labeled a «masochist» on rather scant evidence.

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The media, as driven and owned by the banks would have «us» believe that this act is a mandatory lifeboat response having to do with managing risk and loss precipitated by natural disaster credit - card reliance (since our government was out partying during these events and cutting birthday cake) and the mortgage fiasco which in fact was created by the banks themselves when they threw billions of dollars at unqualified consumers around 2001 with knowledge of their poor risk and just to make a buck.

-- nothing at all to do with lifeboats, or sinking, or drowning, or debt, or anything else even remotely like that...

In 1919, a Newfoundland was awarded a gold medal after he pulled a lifeboat filled with 20 people to shore.

They spent one week at the Historic Lifeboat Station working with staff from Point Reyes National Seashore and the National Park Service, conducting research on ecological projects, including plant species distribution, hydrology profiling, and fish monitoring.