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Sentence Examples Attempts to introduce a new price structure have foundered on the implacable opposition of Norwegian-controlled companies. The cartoons are the work of Ub Iwerks, a Disney-stable animator who struck out on his own, foundered, and sank. But before long the boat foundered on a sand-bank and all we could do was wait for the tide. The South Island was formed, they say, when a canoe full of 150 gods foundered on a reef. The vessel foundered at around 3pm but, unusually, the plane failed to conduct the scheduled afternoon flight. In 1822 the Tek Sing foundered on a reef off the Java coast and sank within minutes. The subject is an Afro-Brazilian sailor who saved many lives when his ship foundered along the coast of Brazil. The Sydney, with superior speed and firepower, raked the German ship, which limped to North Keeling where she foundered on the reef. In 1629, the Dutch ship Batavia foundered off the coast of Western Australia. Negotiations, already a year behind schedule, have foundered on divisions between rich and poor nations. Nothing, of course, came of this, as his proposals foundered on the rock-like conservatism of his profession. They mention three controversial proposals that allegedly foundered on contributors' influence. But the plan foundered when the owner refused to enter into any discussions and the council was unable to make any progress. A French and German proposal foundered last year on precisely the same issue. My mother was an orphan hedgewitch, healer, and midwife of small means until one of my father's horses foundered nearly on her doorstep. I have many memories of being foundered on that windswept strand in the name of family holiday time. The foundered journalists standing for around two hours outside were imagining the headlines. Digital audio tape, a format for clear-sounding cassette players, foundered after record companies, fearing piracy refused to endorse it. Ultimately, the cooperative factories foundered on the narrowness, not the utopianism, of their vision. Other more localized areas appear to have melted over broad regions and blocks of ice have foundered, tilted, and become refrozen. Show More Sentences During the past century empires crashed, new states foundered, utopian projects failed and entire civilisations melted down. But City's hopes of winning their own centenary tournament foundered on a penalty shoot-out yesterday. Only a few months later, the handsome sorrel foundered and his bid for a World Championship ended. Yet another comedy television project had foundered and he had become obsessed with over-population and restoring Victoriana. He was drowned while crossing from Chester Bay to Dublin, his ship having struck a rock and foundered in calm weather. I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. This plan foundered more through the sheer impracticability of the proposals than obstruction by officials. Attempts by the United Nations to broker a deal have foundered, allowing the problem to fester and become a sore incapable of being healed. For ordinary, healthy Germans the eugenicist vision of the regenerated nation foundered on the realities of a war which left the country in ruins. Yet even as East Liberty foundered, nearby residential districts retained their attractive features. Negotiations between the national government and federal unions, which are meant to set a minimum benchmark for the provinces, also foundered. This exercise foundered because it was followed by a funding crisis that lasted several years and led to serious cuts in education budgets. The EU's common foreign and security policy has foundered when it has been most needed. Negotiations have foundered on two issues: improvements to the pension plan and salary increases. Three years before, as the disciples pulled in the first miraculous haul of fish, the nets began to break and their boats almost foundered. We must not forget that the Erika foundered 70 km off the Breton coast, in other words, a long way from the territorial waters. After 1867, however, lacking resources and following the death of its creator and champion, B. Weir, the Nova Scotian naval brigade foundered. And that cost is massively, massively out of proportion to the individual issues on which the negotiations foundered in July. The vessel foundered when she took a sudden list to starboard and down-flooded her fish hold, accommodation and engine-room. Such arrangements have previously foundered on our making our data protection provisions into the measure of all things. Show More Sentences Unfortunately, that idea foundered at the committee stage, something which I particularly regret. The spirit of the Canadian Army Corps foundered on the harsh reality of the home front: inflation and unemployment. A good half of the vessels that have foundered have done so as a result of accidents involving the hull. Due to inadequate maintenance and upkeep of the stuffing box, the vessel likely experienced a steady ingress of water, and eventually foundered. With a treacherous shoreline and marine traffic for many thousands of years, the coast of Ireland is strewn with shipwrecks, or sites where vessels have foundered. It is assumed that the vessel foundered in an instant but violent storm. These two exemptions represent a proposal for a flexible response to the point on which negotiations foundered. The project saved an estimated 15-25 million lives but foundered when, among other things, mosquitoes and plasmodia evolved resistance to their respective poisons. The socialists had an egalitarian dream, the achievement of which inevitably foundered under their managerial inexperience and the unyielding zeal of their convictions. The association suggested the appointment of a further commissioner from a panel representing bus users but the proposal foundered in the absence of more general support. Recently, he foundered in his left fore, which was very acute. Savile allegedly helped to mediate between Charles and Diana as their marriage foundered. We're rehearsing in a freezing cold old shirt factory and I'm foundered. The band will doubtless be foundered in the crisp November air. I was permanently foundered, wearing thermals in and out of bed. In recent years, attempts to inject new life into the single-market agenda have foundered. That thought has occurred to disputatious Tories, who would cheer if the coalition foundered. As DreamWorks foundered, the animation division had to be split from live-action into a separate company. For all of Chafee's discussion of the Iraq war he foundered in questions from the press about more recent foreign policy issues. In 1983, when 70,000 people linked arms in a human chain around the 14-mile perimeter fence at Greenham, those negotiations foundered. Show More Sentences In their epic first match – KK1, as it is called, ran to 48 games – Kasparov's attacks foundered on Karpov's fine positional understanding. A succession of major events had upset the whole international scene: Napoleon's great army had foundered in the Russian snows and France was overrun. When the decision was adopted, the company was in an impasse after the 2004-2006 industrial restructuring plan foundered in the face of trade union opposition to the measures proposed in it. Where the scheme foundered was on the issue of marketing. The flagship of the expedition hit a reef and foundered near the island, and the crew and contents had to be salvaged. And then it foundered for a while and someone else picked it up. Although the negotiations have recently foundered upon the question of the special safeguards clause, this failure is in fact a reflection of more far reaching political differences over the objectives of the system. Attempts to re-establish the executive, with the Rev Paisley and Mr Adams at the helm, foundered after the IRA was accused of carrying out an armed raid on a Belfast branch of Northern Bank and murdering Robert McCartney. When a strong gust of wind hit the sails at a critical moment, the open gunports proved fatal, the ship flooded and quickly foundered. Instability continued, and Haidallah's ambitious reform attempts foundered. In the event, the scheme foundered because of the severity of the proposed route via Whaley Bridge and over Rushop Edge into the Hope Valley. With nine Portuguese crew and nine Indonesians, the ship foundered in a squall and broke up on a reef off a small island. Chancellor's ship went ahead but in November 1556 foundered off the east coast of Scotland near Pitsligo, and Chancellor was drowned. The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly. The idea of a calm, swift Parliament foundered on the rocks of religious conflict. His attempts to obtain low paid work failed, and very quickly he foundered in alcohol and laudanum and was unable to regain his stability. Ms. Lambert found the answer at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., in the form of a bill of lading from a ship that foundered, spilling crates of tiny dolls. In 1967, the giant oil tanker Torrey Canyon foundered off the English coast. Lyons' case foundered, however, on consideration of the third factor. It is an open secret that the Commission's first attempt at creating unified fair trading law including a general clause on fair advertising foundered in the face of opposition from the United Kingdom and Ireland. Show More Sentences However, the nature of the emergency was not communicated to the CCG, which in turn did not inform RCC Trenton, Ontario, that the Avataq might have foundered. The Vliegende Groene Draeck foundered and new heavy vessels were reserved for the flag officers while Tromp was relegated to the old Prins Hendrik. Heath only resigned when discussions on forming a coalition foundered, after which the Queen asked the Leader of the Opposition, Labour's Harold Wilson, to form a government. The project foundered, but Shaw returned to the draft as the basis of Widowers' Houses in 1892, and the connection with Archer proved of immense value to Shaw's career. The battle was inconclusive with no significant losses other than Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose, which foundered and sank while making a sharp turn. The provisional state existed for slightly over two years, but attempts to gain recognition by the United States government foundered for various reasons. One eye, the left eye, had completely foundered in the bubbling purulence. Examples from Classical Literature But after a skirmish or two, what with the roads and what with the enemy, our horses were foundered and useless. Upon that rock he had foundered as a mere boy, and no argument had ever been able to reconvince him. Like other veterans, long unaccustomed to abundance of prog, he had overfed and was badly foundered. Yet when the Gaston de Paris foundered only three souls were saved. The fortunes of the papistical Stuarts are foundered for ever. I felt myself being drawn into that strange region where the foundered imagination of Edgar Poe roamed at will. It was the second submarine I saw on the night she foundered. Prendergast threw us over a chart, told us that we were shipwrecked mariners whose ship had foundered in Lat. And yet, is it not taking to the raft before the ship has foundered? The other was more fortunate, and got clear just before we foundered. Find more words! 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