Sentences with phrase «like lifeboats»

Zodiac inflatable rafts are small, durable and look like lifeboats.

& # 9660 Enbridge Canada's largest oil pipeline company sailed through the recession like a lifeboat for scared investors as it kept hiking its profits and dividends.

In Chelsea, right now, Jen and Paul's One - Stop Souvenir City and Chelsea Bus Tours sails down 24th street like a lifeboat of fun and bad taste in a Dead Sea of Modernism.

Not exact matches

They have the capacity to become enormously valuable — like Titanic lifeboats — in a world where the ordinary saver despairs of keeping his nest egg safe.

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.

Like Steve Taylor's song «Baby Doe,» the song «Lifeboat» was written and performed in the 1980's, and prophetically warns us about the direction our culture was headed.

They're just incompetent, clinging to cliffnotes of the last decade like little lifeboats in a sea that they can't quite comprehend.

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.

No kidding and Hillary was more like an anchor instead of a lifeboat for those swimming around her.

«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.

It's like a lottery for lifeboats on the Titanic.

Sometimes referred to as an author's lifeboat team, your power promo team is a group of like - minded self - published authors who are willing to work together to support the sales efforts of each team member.

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

Anima Mundi is not a «How To» video, it is a «Where To» documentary showcasing alternatives like Earthship's, Permaculture, Permablitz, retrofitting the suburbs, lifeboats, localized food production and currency's, planned energy decent and Gaian philosophy.»

But COP23 largely ends in a quandary, with the developed and developing nations in an argument as old as the Kyoto Protocol, as they continue to squabble like shipwrecked passengers in a sinking lifeboat over who should bail and how much — even as the little boat rapidly takes on water.

We have two choices: we can cling to the dying fossil fuel industry like a drowning man grasping at a straw, or we can make a bigger effort and swim to the nearby renewable energy lifeboat.

Goods: - Products like biomass briquettes, e-waste, cullet or other scrap or waste of glass, real zari, paper scrap or waste, hard rubber scrap or waste, scrap or parings, rubber waste, scrap or parings, plastic waste, homeopathy medicines, siddha, Unani, ayurvedic, branded namkeens, khakra and plain roti / chapatti, mangoes sliced dried, fibre and leaf and reed items including wallets, pouches and mats, prayer beads, grass, hawan samagri, cotton quilts (not more than Rs. 1000 per piece), duty credit scrips, oil cakes, paper mache products, saree fall, corduroy fabric, dhoop batti, roasted gram, dried tamarind, walnuts, branded food, first - day covers, stamp - post marks, revenue or postage stamps, kites, agarbatti, insulin, biogas, ice and snow, raisins, cashew nuts, cashew nuts in shell, lifeboats, stent, medicines, kerosene, coal, sabudana, rusk, pizza bread, spices, tea, coffee, frozen vegetables, branded paneer, skimmed milk powder, cream, footwear under Rs. 500, packaged food items, apparel under Rs. 1000 and fish fillets will all attract 5 % GST.

(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!)