Sentences with phrase «of lifeboats»

The British inquiry thoroughly covered every aspect of the disaster, underlining the fact that although the White Star Line had honored the letter of the law in the number of lifeboats placed on the Titanic, the number was nowhere near sufficient.

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.

We all giggled out of control as she exclaimed «I knew I was going to be Captain of my Lifeboat if anything happened cause none of those other jackasses were paying attention!»

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

Many thought the Yan Martel's bestseller was unfilmable, what with working in the tight space of a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.

British novelist Charlotte Rogan, author of The Lifeboat, is doing just that.

From there, Shackleton and five men embarked in one of the lifeboats on an eight - hundred - mile voyage through some of the planet's stormiest waters, landing more than two weeks later at South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic.

Those who are disgruntled feel the company spent too much cash and is in desperate need of a lifeboat.

Throw over teacher and we'll play another game of lifeboat!

Q.: Garrett Hardin himself has not employed the term «triage,» but he has compared the current status of the existing nation - states to a hypothetical collection of lifeboats cast adrift at sea.

Q.: Other critics of lifeboat imagery have questioned the legitimacy of shortages, have attacked the injustice inherent in current practices of distribution of food and resources, and have argued that it is possible to feed from 38 to 45 billion people on this planet.

On the deck of this lifeboat the ballast is miraculously maintained — no matter the accumulated weight and woes of its passengers — by One whose placability knows no end.

He flowed down to the floor of the lifeboat and disappeared under the tarpaulin.

One argument said that a full complement of lifeboats would have made the ship too top - heavy, perhaps risking capsize.

Andrews wanted another change as well: a second row of lifeboats that could be launched as soon as the first set was in the water.

Other distinguished passengers included President William Howard Taft's military attaché Archibald Butt; Mr. and Mrs. John B. Thayer, a senior vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and their teenage son Jack; and Mrs. Margaret Brown of Denver, Colo., who was to gain fame as the Unsinkable Molly Brown for taking command of a lifeboat.

Can you get down to brass tacks and stop talking about whose end of the lifeboat is sinking?»

One of director Alfred Hitchcock's (Suspicion, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) more experimental films puts all of the action within the confines of a lifeboat for the duration, becoming what some claim is the smallest set ever used for a major motion picture release.

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

And next year, Grainger will put her vulnerability and compassion to use; in Disney's upcoming sea disaster flick The Finest Hours, she takes on the role of Miriam, wife of lifeboat lifesaver Bernie Webber, played by aorta - crushing Chris Pine.

Now and Again, which will be published in April, is a contemporary novel, set nearly 100 years after the events of The Lifeboat.

Though the narrative frame means that Grace's survival is assured, the suspense of The Lifeboat never lets up, and it is a testament to Rogan's talent that a novel that so insightfully confronts existential questions is also a complete and utter page - turner.

¥ Oversaw repairs and routine maintenance of lifeboats and rafts.

I wish to work as a Seaman where I will be given the responsibility to work on the various operations like running, rigging of the ship along with taking care and charge of the cargo in its loading process and also take care of the lifeboats and assist the passengers in case there is a need to use them.

Beckside started out as a fisherman's cottage 250 years ago when Staithes was one of the busiest fishing ports on England's east coast and was at one point the home of the lifeboat coxswain.

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.

But legal compulsion isn't the only way to push people out of the lifeboat.

She is the author of The Lifeboat, which was nominated for The Guardian first book award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and which has been translated into twenty - six languages.

this is one of the lifeboats, now that the Evangelical Titanic sank?

Ismay protested that they already had more than the legally required number of lifeboats (16) and the extra boats simply would clutter up the beautiful open expanse of the upper deck, where first - class passengers would want to stroll.

The regulations governing the number of lifeboats had not been changed since 1894 — 18 years earlier — and the Titanic was 460 percent larger than the largest ship in the world at the time the outdated rules were published.

«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.

Surviving officers of the Titanic recalled ship's doctor John Edward Simpson as perfectly calm in the face of death, even giving his pocket flashlight to one of the lifeboat captains.

B&N has kicked their big Fictionwise customers out of the lifeboat.

When the Titanic sank a Newfoundland treaded water near one of the lifeboats and barked an alert to the Carpathia ensuring those on the lifeboat would be seen.