| As they barrel toward elections that once held bright promise, the issueless Democrats are girding for a new round of recriminations. |
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| Still, the financial services industry is girding itself for a battle royal. |
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| But when the fabric is girding my middle and slung over my shoulder, Brian tells me that I look like an African prince. |
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| There were sentences about camouflaging with a veneer, and girding with an orb, and boomeranging parallels. |
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| The danger of girding arises when the smaller vessel is towed broadside by the tow rope and is unable to manoeuvre out of this position. |
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| I thought of our pilgrimages out of the city, the slow tide of traffic to the shore or family visits, a cincture of security and welcome girding the suburbs and beyond. |
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| Certainly, Japan's two consumer-electronics giants have been girding up over the past few months to do battle again. |
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| Worker efficiency rose as firms reduced staff hours, girding for a potential downturn. |
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| What we get instead is an old lag easing himself into – or girding himself for? |
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| A vessel is said to be girding when a sideways force is acting on the towline in relation to the direction of movement. |
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| Before last spring, when the impact of the two-month-old federal HRTC program really started to be felt, Acrylon had been girding for the worst? |
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| It is considered one of the most hazardous situations a tug may encounter and the risk of girding is often present during towing operations. |
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| The risk of girding increases as the distance between the tug and the barge is reduced, which is often done to improve manoeuvrability. |
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| By aborting the tow, or allowing the tug to be towed stern first, the master stood to eliminate the risk of girding. |
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| The absence of procedures or guidelines on girding left the master without important information to aid in his decision-making. |
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| In this occurrence, although the tug master had several decades of experience, he lacked direction from the company in the form of procedures to deal with girding. |
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| At the time of the occurrence, the company did not have procedures to guide the master in the event of an unintentional girding or capsizing scenario. |
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| In the absence of procedures or guidelines, the master lacked important information that could have helped him decide how to respond to the girding situation. |
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| The extension of the hands must therefore be the term specifically corresponding to crucifixion, but as the extension of the hands is set before girding and being led away, it is difficult to discern how it must be conceived. |
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| In this occurrence, the operator considered girding to be so common that it assumed masters and mates would have previous experience with it and could be expected to know what to do. |
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| The city is girding itself for a possible transit strike next month, mindful that it was just such an event in the 1960s that precipitated its last outright fiscal collapse. The cause of all this friction: money. |
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| Chinese firms were hiring lawyers from English-speaking countries, while Japanese law firms—so risk-averse only a decade ago were consolidating and girding themselves for international work. |
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| They do seem to be girding for the increased pressure to come and using these games as rehearsal, if not a chance to develop teamwide grit and resolve. |
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| With respect to a hazard as common and potentially severe as unintentional girding, its absence from the SMS is a deficiency, one which may leave crews without procedures to address such hazards. |
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| In addition, investigations conducted by the TSB in recent years into the causes of the girding and subsequent capsizing of tugboats have raised concerns about the frequency of such occurrences. |
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