Sentences with phrase «little lifeboats»

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

As the ship drifted under the island of Cauda, twenty - three miles south of where they had hoped to land, they had to draw in the little lifeboat attached by ropes to the larger ship from behind to keep it from being dashed into their ship by the gales.

The sailors got frightened, however, and started to abandon the ship and escape in the little lifeboat.

Not exact matches

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.

All those publishers who hoped to escape the crowded holiday release season by pushing their titles to next year are starting to realize the Q1 2010 lifeboat is riding a little low in the water.

Yes, I agree that the lifeboats in the potentially huge storms to come could provide little else but a false sense of refuge.

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.

One last thing before signing off: the task force adds a little obiter dicta about «numbers in the profession,» which is a nice way of referring to those lawyers who are already in the lifeboat turning around and saying «No more!

In the task force's view, further limiting numbers who may gain access to the profession is not a reasonable or indeed viable option, for myriad reasons... One last thing before signing off: the task force adds a little obiter dicta about «numbers in the profession,» which is a nice way of referring to those lawyers who are already in the lifeboat turning around and saying «No more!