Sentences with phrase «own life raft»

The guides and reports provided by MarketingProfs can be a life raft when beta testing email automation, for instance.

Consider your brand your life raft for when life's seas turn rough.

What if American producers of life rafts, helipads, and safety equipment could not sell those products to consortia that included Russian companies?

But if they sink, offer a life raft rather than punishment.

He went immediately to his checklist: he untangled himself from his life raft, then checked the canopy of his chute and saw the gash.

It seems like this is a topic that can be endlessly mined for new perspectives because (1) it is all about looking into the crystal ball to predict the future and (2) everyone's response to the unknowable future is different — some want a really big life raft, while others are happy with water wings and swim lessons.

This is not merely a faith that she clings to, nor a life raft for when times are tough.

Or the album closer, «In Reverse,» which floats like a life raft in an endless sea, until the song finds its own land around the 3:15 mark.

As I held onto the life raft of my mother, my new teacher, Janie Adams, came to coax me to join the others.

If you are in a rubber life raft and survival of the group is paramount, then it would be completely moral to throw the guy overboard who keeps attempting to pop the raft and drown us all, and not a single other person in the raft would object for they would understand that that guy must have lost use of his senses and had abandoned his humanity.

I remember at a circuit assembly once the speaker said «As parents it's the hardest thing to save our children and it's like being in a life raft with your panicked child overboard and we want to just bop them on the head with an oar so we can pull them on board to safety...»

You won't grab onto the life raft if you don't know you're drowning.

In addition, there are two single sideband marine radios, two VHF marine radios, two automatic direction finders, two VHF aircraft radios, one generator, four emergency distress radios, two life rafts...

«It was like a sinking ship,» says Bradley of Cleveland, «and I was glad to get my life raft and get my second chance over here.

Even if the wealthy try to use New Zealand like some kind of life raft against the uncertainty of the rest of the world, they can't buy the inheritance Hillary had.

Things weren't necessarily going the way that I thought they should go... and we certainly weren't in a place much above scraping the bottom... but somehow, in that moment, I found a little bit of hope and, like a life raft in the middle of a stormy ocean, I clung to that little piece of hope because it was all it seemed like I had to hold onto.

Flight attendants can be your life raft on a flight - be nice to them.

-LSB-...] to cling to that notion like a life raft.

In the riptide of motherhood, we're all looking for a life raft that will help us stay afloat.

If Boris Johnson — let alone Jacob Rees - Mogg — becomes Tory leader, some (such as Anna Soubry, Nicky Morgan and Justine Greening) will inevitably look for life rafts outside the party.

For decades it has meant families who suddenly lose their financial security, have a life raft to carry them through the weeks before means - tested support arrives.

And pretty soon the prime minister is going to have to find a serviceable life raft.

Yet you cling to that absurd belief like a drowning man hanging onto a life raft.

And the island state serves as a life raft: Four Australian species survive only here, having been completely or nearly wiped out from the mainland.

Life Rafts in Space?

Gale force winds and waves buffeted the life raft, and the only way the crew could keep hold of it was to flip it over and hang onto it from underneath, floating in the water.

Some life rafts come equipped with devices to convert seawater to freshwater, but the amount of drinkable water they make is limited.

We have information on the drift characteristics of many different items, from people to 55 - gallon oil drums to various kinds of vessels, such as life rafts, sea kayaks, sailboats, skiffs and refugee rafts.

Snow accumulation builds up the ice sheet, but the extra flakes have not acted as a life raft for West Antarctica's ice sheet, which previous research has found is rapidly thinning as the climate warms, Thomas said.

«A safer solution may be to build a fleet of interplanetary «life rafts» that could maneuver themselves always out of reach of the sun, but close enough to use its energy,» Smith suggested.

In one of the most harrowing true stories of World War II, three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific and find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open ocean.

Recounting the extraordinary life story of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell, «Starred Up»)-- who ran for America in the 1936 Olympics, survived a plane crash during World War II, stayed afloat for 75 days on a life raft before forced internment in a series of Japanese POW camps — Jolie and company seem to be digging into the Spielberg playbook: The movie offers up sun - dappled nostalgia for Depression - era Southern California, harrowing wartime sequences, and even a shark attack, but it serves them all up with maximum efficiency.

Assigned to a rickety plane to conduct a search - and - rescue mission, he survived a crash in the south Pacific and spent the next 46 days in a life raft with two others, living on rain water, captured sea birds and raw fish.

They have two joined rubber life rafts, exposed to sharks from below and Japanese dive - bombers from above.

Jack O'Connell is starring as Louis Zamperini, a U.S. soldier who survived on a life raft with two others for 28 days after a plane crash.

Setting records, he ran in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, served in the Air Force, drifted 47 days in a life raft after his bomber went down and endured sadistic captivity at the hands of the Japanese.

O'Connell and Dubliner star, Domhnall Gleeson, who plays a fellow life raft survivor and POW camp detainee, both lost nearly two stone from their already slight frames during production off the coast of Queenland.

The Blu - ray / DVD / digital copy combo packs its own life raft of extras with ample provisions, including deleted scenes, a spotlight on that amazing CGI and a look at Lee's filmmaking process.

Alex Needham and furry friend nail their colours to the mast for Ang Lee's mystical story about a boy stranded on a life raft with a Bengal tiger

Poor Henry Cavill is stranded without a life raft, being made to mope regularly and mourn as the world somewhat turns against him.

Of course, the film gets to the life raft quicker than the book does, and some of the religious themed debates have been excised, but I didn't feel for one moment that the tale had been dumbed down in favour of nothing more than flashy visuals and expensive CGI set pieces.

Surviving with the help of a life raft turned parachute, Indy, along with two tagalongs — lounge singer Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) and young Short Round (Jonathan Ke Quan)-- skid down snow covered slopes, float along a river and end up unscathed and ready for a good meal in a poverty stricken village in India.

O'Connell stars as «the young Zamperini from the time he was a wunderkind member of the USA track team that competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics to his survival of a harrowing plane crash in the Pacific Ocean during WWII through 47 days adrift in a life raft to becoming a POW in a Japanese prison camp.»

A dog - eared, much - scribbled - in life raft of cinema.»

Left alone and without money, Kyra searches for a life raft.

They cling to a life raft, without food nor water, and no hope of rescue.

His rigorous conditioning and perseverance as a track star, as well as his childhood of being bullied and ridiculed by his peers for being Italian, gave him the fortitude to go the distance during his days in World War II as an Air Force bombardier whose plane is shot down, forcing him and fellow soldiers to have to survive in a life raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for weeks.

An onboard explosion sinks the ship and our spy finds himself washed ashore on a life raft in southern Japan.

Literally raised in a zoo, Pi's family in India decides to sell their animals to a zoo in Canada and on the boat journey there, Pi becomes the sole human survivor as he escapes on a life raft after a deadly storm.

«We have some life rafts.»