The space under the floor is filled with insulation and tiles that
serve as ballast, which helps the ship lie lower in the water and makes it easier to pass under the bridges.
The point derived its name from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to
serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Boston.
[4] The point derived the name Ballast Point from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to
serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Boston.
Our core fixed - income portfolios seek to preserve capital, provide current income and
serve as ballast against stock market volatility.
«ETFs
serve as a ballast for these trying times.
Lawrence and his screenwriters, Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt, have done a fine job of calibrating the film's many moving parts, action
serving as a ballast for heaps of exposition, flashes of mordant humor darting through all the despair and destruction.
Not exact matches
Tickle explains that, in reaction to the gathering center, many Christians will retreat to their respective corners, or religious traditions, which isn't an entirely bad thing because it
serves as a sort of
ballast to keep the boat of Christendom from tipping during the upheaval of the Great Emergence.
It
serves as our most intimate and reliable experience of «home,» and thus provides us with the metaphysical
ballast needed to endure the greater fluidity, heterogeneity, and change in modern civic life governed by the social norms we rightly seek to protect and preserve.
Ballast like character development goes right out the window and into the icy Russian river that
serves as backdrop for The Darkest Hour's anticlimax.
Community leaders can
serve as sensible, practical
ballast for state officials caught up in their aspirational enthusiasms.
Cash can
serve as portfolio stabilizer just like bonds, and because cash is so stable, you can use less cash
as ballast and achieve the same outcome
as more bond
ballast in a mixed portfolio.
Moyer's paintings, in their reference to a geological time,
serve as physical
ballast to our contemporary barrage of data.