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St Mary's College at present is akin to a sinking ship, and this nth round of cutbacks and strikes merely serves to raise the tide ever higher.
Underground mining entails sinking shafts to reach the target resource and driving tunnels and adits, either inclined or horizontally.
Eventually, of course, the cheetah wins, sinking its teeth into the jugular of the prey and ending its life.
Unlike Shackleton's 22 ft whaleboat, the James Caird, it could turn through 360 degrees without any risk of sinking.
On the Reverse Water Labyrinth, bodies tumble on the soft but sinking surface and roll from side to side as water squirts from above.
In the presence of kaolinite and illite, aggregate sizes were smaller and sinking rates lower than in the presence of smectite and quartz.
It may be an ancient pendulum clock, whose sinking weight, after it has been wound, will supply the energy.
You are better off being prosperous and paying tax than going down in the first-class cabins of a sinking ship.
I crossed my legs and placed myself beside him on the bed, the mattress sinking a little under weight.
After six miles of scrambling, sinking, and bushwhacking, we were scraped and exhausted.
Typically, Clione swim nearly continuously to maintain a stable position in the water column and avoid sinking due to negative buoyancy.
Or perhaps, in a more generous mood, you'd have her turning 40 and sinking gracefully into the silent oblivion of confirmed spinsterhood.
His 313th Bomb Wing also sowed 12,000 naval mines in ports and waterways, sinking almost 1 million tons of shipping in about four months.
Battus is seen seated with his back to the spectator, sinking under the somnific influence of the pipe of Mercury.
A sailor from the sinking ship would climb into the breeches buoy and be pulled to shore.
This was in fact untrue as the vessel was not damaged and was not in danger of sinking.
And on a deep powder day, a snowboard can ride on top of the snow instead of sinking into it.
They have sailed with dolphins dancing on their bow wave, and have been rescued from a sinking tourist boat in the Galapagos.
The ship was virtually unsinkable and the aim of the preparation was to facilitate rapid sinking, yet still allow for safe diver access.
The threat of war pummeled Asian stock markets on Friday, with some bourses sinking to levels not seen since the Asian economic crisis.
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The sun was sinking below the smudge of distant mountains when Hitze came into view.
The coffee has been sinking to the bottom of the container and creating an icy layer.
Such places can offer abundant supplies of heat, usually tapped by sinking boreholes and circulating water down them to collect the heat.
The Danube river faces an ecological crisis after the sinking of the Slovak cargo ship Polana near the port of Rousse.
During turtle ontogeny the reduction of the trunk myomeres leads to sinking of the vertebrae and ribs into the dermis.
They were covered head to toe in crude oil from a massive slick that had formed over the site of the sinking.
With more and more ground being eaten up by multi-storey buildings, green space is fast sinking in the city.
The sinking of the liner showed how vulnerable unescorted ships were against a submarine.
Unable to find and contain the source of flooding, the skipper of the sinking boat moved his crew to the safety of the other boat.
A boatload of refugees rescued from their sinking vessel at sea has finally been allowed to land, after a two week standoff.
But the boat was sinking fast and when the stern went under, a rush of air pushed four people out of the cabin.
He also proposed a sinking fund, financed by post office revenues, that would be pledged to pay off the debt.
The sinking fund, where money for long-term expenditure goes, had run dry, so if there was a serious problem there would have been real trouble.
I think the fact started sinking in that we weren't dating anymore, for which I was grateful.
He left me standing there, tears running down my face, the reality of his words not sinking in till much later.
With a sinking feeling, Rue realized Claire had locked the door and it hadn't been her imagination when she heard the click.
It was impossible but I have got that sinking feeling inside me that I could have done something.
She took a step toward Glenn, and with a sinking feeling, I realized she was abandoning me.
With a sinking feeling, I realized that Angel had not yet told Wesley what Cordelia and I had just revealed.
In May 1884 C.W. Marsh was sinking a trial shaft hoping to find gold but only found indications of fossils.
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Residents in Penhill will soon be sinking their teeth into succulent pears, plums and cherries all carefully tended by their own green fingers.
But instead of sinking his teeth into a succulent pork, egg and pastry treat, Mr Davis found he was crunching glass.
Gaining what we presume is the Alexandra Glacier, we rope up and simul-climb for the next three hours, occasionally sinking an ice screw.
The physicians attending the President have announced that he is sinking fast.
Only the discovery of oil has prevented the country from sinking into complete misery.
She took a year off work but after three months began sinking into a depression.
Maybe it's just me who's decaying, sinking into a state of complete insensibility, and not knowing what to do to fix it.
The only thing that allowed them to keep from sinking completely into the depths of misery was the thought of going back down to the earth.
Shareholders face the prospect of paying taxes on gains even as their funds' values are sinking.
Conversely, falling values will see the same line sinking toward the 0 value.
I was about to say something when I realized my shoe was sinking in the mud.
I relaxed completely, sinking down in my seat until my head hit the top of my chair.
Jason picked up the phone and dropped it on the ground before sinking to his knees.
She clasped a white hand to the black alabaster, sinking down to the floor.
How did the media magically decide that he is struggling, sinking, tanking, you know, five months before anyone gets to vote?
Even Hayek's buoyant presence fails to keep this cinematic clunker from sinking.
Hugh Laurie's intelligence and charm keep this strained romantic comedy from sinking completely.
Apart from sinking the accommodation ship HMAS Kuttabul, with the loss of 21 lives, the attack caused little other damage.
An initial examination revealed that a water pipe used to cool the engine had broken and flooded the engine room, nearly sinking the ship.
That was the night Japanese submarines attacked Sydney, sinking the accommodation ferry Kuttabul and claiming the lives of 21 sailors.
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What do you grab onto when the ship is sinking and the waters are closing over your head?
As the three of them looked on, the ship was sinking slowly and steadily into the water.
They thought that Miranda's rugged terrain was a result of heavier rocks sinking below the lighter ice crust.
Laure's in the bathtub and she's sinking below the surface, and the water is flowing over the top.
His assumption is based on research he has done into the sinking of the Lusitania, which was downed by a German U-boat during World War One.
In true darts tradition, Ian gets his preparation in by sinking down a few pints to settle the nerves.
We came to the small medieval town of Orchha as the sun was sinking from a pink and grey sky shot with golden threads.
The sinking occurred because somebody cut each of the vessel's eight mooring ropes by which she was attached to two shoreside bollards.
Through the window of treelessness, the sunset is paralysing, a fireball sinking into rolling hills.
He was swamped in it, slowly sinking in to the mire of documents and decisions he could no longer even think of how to make.
Until there is a real far-reaching agenda that will stop Scotland's economy sinking ever further into the mire, nothing will really change.
The experience that steadied a sinking ship is likely to remain and changes will be implemented with care.
Two months ago, his campaign looked like a sinking ship and today he's probably on the way to the nomination.
I have to think of my future and I don't want to hang around a sinking ship.
But he got aboard a sinking ship and has had little chance to plug the leaks.
His resignation should shortly follow the elections, paving the way for someone new to come in and rebuild a sinking ship.
Has he received words of encouragement from friends and the like, or has this been jumping off a sinking ship?
Given his obvious skills at putting the best face on a sinking ship, surely a role with the National Party would have been more appropriate?
At sea German U-boats were sinking so many merchant ships that Britain was close to starvation.
We've sat in front of them with that sinking feeling, the realisation that this person thinks we're not the full shilling.
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The enormity of what had just transpired was slowly sinking into each scientist.
The only major thing that could change is that the ship makes it across instead of sinking.
Feuding fish face a fight to the death with the unlucky loser sinking into oblivion.
As bad luck would have it, nine German U-boats stumbled across the manoeuvres and torpedoed the ships, sinking two ships and damaging a third.
As the water settled and all became placid again only the wrecked and sinking craft remained, alone in the sea.
Because of the top-secret nature of the mission, the sinking went unreported and the sailors had to endure four days and nights in the water.
He shouted fresh commands and the oarsmen went to work again, backing the ship away from the sinking merchantman.
For the final day, Torrance has picked an outfit identical to the one he wore while sinking that putt 17 years ago.
The ship is sinking and nobody with a sense of self-preservation wants to stick around this mess anyway.
She justifies her drug use as partly medicinal, but she is sinking back into previous behaviors that led her to almost end her life.
This seeming indifference to atrocity feeds the central government's sinking reputation at home and abroad.
She was so deep in thought that at first she did not notice that she was sinking.
The warship received a Mayday saying the ship had exploded following a fire and was sinking off the coast of Malta in severe weather conditions.
As any Master of a seaworthy vessel would do, he quickly steams towards the sinking boat.
Going down with a sinking ship seems so pointless when other more seaworthy vessels are within arm's reach.
The sinking may have been a result of overloading, poor seamanship or both.
Luckily, the mast of the sinking boat was spotted and the team immediately responded.
Even the bust radio and lost radar bleeps sinking in the fluid can't pull it from its descent into something wetter than electronics.
Several members of the assisting-boat crew boarded the sinking fisher and helped bail the rising water.
The land is sinking because the aquifers are being drained, and it won't work any more.
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It is now sinking in that we will lose a degree of sovereignty and that our partners will have a say in our internal affairs.
The Umbra came to rest in the center of a small ring of rocks, its landing struts sinking into the fine desert sand.
Unfortunately, after going through a big run-up in the 1990s, Schwab shares were sinking along with the rest of the market.
Lan shut his eyes tight, sinking his head down a little in embarrassment and shyness.
He said he thought he had a colour photograph of the sinking ship and he promised to look it out for me.
You might want to put a rock or brick pedestal under the root ball to keep the root ball from sinking.
Why are cities across the country sinking taxpayer money into sports stadiums and arenas?
The sea is rising, the city is sinking, and the damage to its historic buildings, bridges and artworks is becoming increasingly apparent.
The road had begun sinking some months back, with dips becoming apparent in the road.
We all stood there for the longest time, like passengers on a sinking ship, waiting for a life raft.
Earlier this year, it had sat for weeks to unravel the riddle of the sinking.
He apparently believes that if there are not enough lifeboats on a sinking ship, everyone should stand on deck and go down together.
The sinking and rising of lakes is the sole rhythmic variation on a theme of universal erosion.
Whoever was hiding up in the woods shot at them, the bullet sinking into the old wood of the dock.
What you need is a fast sinking line with a leader of no more than two feet in length.
It is normally fished with a conventional length leader of about 9ft with a sinking line.
With its long claws, the zorilla digs feverishly after the prize, alternately sinking its nose into the ground until it comes up munching.
And by their clinging to the anchor of a sinking ship for security, they drown in their own folly.
Their rifles made a common report, when, sinking on his wounded limb, part of the body of the savage came into view.
The following year a sinking fund was established in an effort to amortize the debt.
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He also appealed to business houses to help the institution with the sinking of a borehole since the school has no water supply.
We were now encountering the last minute and Dingle had all hands on deck to rescue their rapidly sinking ship.
On a more serious note, it would appear that the world as a whole is sinking deeper into poverty.
Let the clouds drift over the red sun, sinking in blood, and sleep in a cradle of ice and terror until the dawn breaks redly over the ocean.
The planes were catapulted to search and attack the German U-boat wolf packs that were sinking droves of ships in convoys.
A television programme recreating the sinking of the Second World War battleship, Royal Oak, was broadcast on Grampian TV on Friday night.
Sir, get your dinghy launched and prepare to abandon ship if your boat is sinking.
Submarines were supposed to surface and give crews time to abandon ship before sinking their vessels.
That surprising, sinking, excited feeling may be the essence of thought as felt experience, rather than as bare abstraction.
Evans skilfully avoids the gratuitously voyeuristic while never sinking into safe but dull academicism.
His signature sinker wasn't sinking, and it appeared Brown relied on an arm angle that would put less pressure on his injury.
These ships accounted for the sinking or damaging of a number of warships and merchant ships.
An explanation that I favour for the sinking is that the snort mast float valve jammed open, flooding the boat.
It's a question about foot-and-mouth disease and the recent sinking of Petrobras, the large oil rig owned by Brazil.
If you're out of work and find yourself sinking in financial quicksand, don't be too proud to yell for help.
They found that the water strider's legs are so buoyant, they can support 15 times the insect's weight without it sinking.
Akin to rats deserting a sinking ship, four survivors flee out of the major cities to a secluded, out-of-the-way shopping mall.
He then shifted his position a little and felt the bed sinking downward because of his weight.
The first way is to fire cannonry and other projectiles towards another ship in hopes of sinking, scaring, or capturing the vessel.
A sinking feeling of despair welled up within her, threatening to swamp her completely.
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Absentmindedly, she hailed a taxi and entered, telling the driver her address before sinking into the seat.
With a sigh and a feeling of guilt sinking into my chest heavily, I slipped on an almost-blue white skort and a loose shirt that hung a few centimeters or so above my navel.
What if a footpad started sinking into the moondust, or the Eagle sprung a leak?
It is into this quicksand that the public finances are now fast sinking.
He swam, trying to maintain his position and get his bearings inside the hold, until something pressed against him and he felt himself sinking deeper.
And you go on this boat because of all the hype and the commotion around it, and the boat is sinking.
An iceberg smashes its way to the surface, all sharp angles and ragged edges, rearing over the barely visible remains of a crushed and sinking ship.
In the sudden calamity that presaged the sinking, it is possible the skipper or a flying object in the wheelhouse knocked the joystick control to one side.
This involves going into a standing split, which I easily can do, with the operated leg out behind me, and then sinking on to all fours on the other knee.
Others soon followed, industrializing it and sinking shafts to deposits of iron and other metals that could be alloyed to make tools for the Federation war machine.
As the exhausted and injured men slept below decks the ship was struck amidships by a torpedo from a German E-boat and she broke in two, sinking in just 15 seconds.
The speed and the angle of sinking made it extremely difficult to launch the life boats and the first one that did get into the water spilled its occupants into the sea.
This ship was launched in 1937, saw considerable action in the Mediterranean, and was also ultimately responsible for the sinking of the Bismarck.
Luckily, Kurt lowered the lifeboat and escaped the sinking vessel.
The suddenness of the attack left no time to launch lifeboats, so the 900 sailors who escaped the sinking ship found themselves floating in life jackets.
They will get off the sinking ship, and jump on the life raft.
A child is about to be wrapped in a blanket after being brought ashore in a life raft on the Greek island of Paros from the sinking ferry, Express Samina, in this TV image.
With the country sinking ever further into a prescription drug-induced haze, one state has decided to fight back.
This is fine for larger baits, but for lobworms at range and small pieces of bread, a tub of floating and sinking putty are very handy, although normally as a last resort.
Sizing paper with gelatin, arrowroot, casein or cornstarch is recommended to keep the solutions from sinking beneath the surface, which causes the print to lose contrast.
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Jesus Corrales portrays the lovelorn Romeo with passion, sinking daggers into the heart of anybody in the audience with the slightest romantic sensibility.
At the end of the opening heist, I could practically feel my feet sinking into the grimy sand of Revere Beach.
At 6 p.m. the Gneisenau heeled over very suddenly, showing the men gathered on her decks and then walking on her side as she lay for a minute on her beam ends before sinking.
The words were like poison, sinking beneath my skin and tainting me.
The U.S. and Russia are sinking billions into nuclear-capable bombers, missiles, and submarines.
Priebus derided the rollout of her new book, Hard Choices, and claimed her poll numbers are sinking.
You will notice here that you are driving your body forward into the backfist rather than sinking backward as was illustrated in Part I of this series of articles.
The morning also served as a welcoming party for new CEO Hubert Joly, the Frenchman brought in Monday to right the sinking ship.
I got my first sinking feeling when I found myself a little while later playing bodyguard in the kitchen of a strange drug dealer while she scored a bag of dope.
The crew abandoned ship at 6.30 am after issuing a Mayday call saying their ship was sinking in the Bristol Channel, around 35 miles south west of the Pembrokeshire coast.
All around her Caroline could see that even some of the smaller boats were being sucked under the water by the pressure created by the sinking ship.
Using an 8wt rod and a fast sinking tip, I made a cast parallel to the tide rip and let it sink until I was sure I was just a few feet from the bottom.
Joining him and his crew are two survivors from the sinking, which enables Cameron to film their reactions at memorial services for HMS Hood and the Bismarck.
An environmental time bomb was ticking in the Atlantic last night after the sinking of the stricken Prestige oil tanker 500 miles from Mizen Head.
The captain of a submarine is shown observing through the periscope a broken-backed merchantman, torpedoed fair amidships and sinking by the bow, with the complacent rhyme.
One time he stood on the dock of a ship and sunk the ship just to feel what it was like to be on a sinking ship.
Fortunately, the belly landing went a bit more smoothly and Walsh clambered over the side of the sinking Corsair to be rescued by a small boat and returned to base.
Our continent sits more or less astride the latitudes of the subtropical high pressure belt, an area of sinking, dry, stable air and usually clear skies.
His sinking approval is undoubtedly a thumbs-down on how the GOP is handling the endless budget mess.
I slow motion I saw the crossbow bolt hit her in the chest, sinking in.
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The city government cleared out Tuesday night, leaving a sinking ship.
What started off as a fascinating delve into the secret world of ghost-hunting has become a parody of itself, sinking into a mire of its own making.
Slowly I progress on my downward spiral, but am saved from sinking completely into the mire of self-recrimination by the jolting reality of sudden stillness.
While migrant ship tragedies at sea happen all too often, the latest sinking appears to have been no accident.
Then the bear bit his leg, sinking a tooth all the way to the femur bone.
Osoria relies on a hard sinking fastball thrown with a sidearm delivery.
I felt that the plans team was slowly sinking into a morass of detail.
It was muscling its way onto shore, hands sinking deeply into the sand.
A fishing boat's crew sighted the sinking ship, sounded the alarm and began to organise a rescue operation, in which a number of boats from nearby oil-rig platforms took part.
Murray dropped a cannon overboard into the canoe of Islanders who paddled out to meet the ship, sinking their vessel and allowing the ship's crew to grab the floating men.
We got there right at dusk, scrambling breathlessly to the top of the Pyramid of the Sun and catching a few moments of its namesake sinking below the western horizon.
She ran across the spongy ground, her feet sinking and sliding in the mud.
We can almost hear our own boots sinking into the jungle mud.
The body spilled from the spire, sinking into the sand below.
They had erected each post, one by one, sinking it deep into the caliche hardpan upon which the town was settled, and then into the softness of the sand below.
Notwithstanding the extreme cruelty shown to these animals, most of us fail to spare a thought on the matter, before sinking our teeth into a non-vegetarian fare.
I would love to do something that meant more than sinking four-foot putts.
It's that sinking feeling when you discover the very expensive typo.
Suna realized, with a sinking feeling, what the king was talking about.
While many York residents got that sinking feeling again over the weekend, one restaurant owner's ingenious flood protection plan has saved him thousands of pounds.
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When I wake up in the morning I get that sinking feeling, you know?
Tunas are negatively buoyant and must swim continuously to avoid sinking.
It takes time, relentlessness, toughness, and a lot of political skill to prevent America from sinking.
A divisive nomination campaign left his candidature holed and sinking.
Harem pants get the center stage as the summer season is sinking in.
Sinking behind nearby Mount St. Helens, the sun ignited Mount Hood in fiery red alpenglow.
Sinking roots is not an automatic childhood event, but is a result, at least in part, of the process of maturation.
Sinking into the large cushion on her armchair, she smiles slyly, as if just awakened from drowsing over the book shut on her lap.
The camels' gait and widened feet help them move without sinking into the sand.
In real life, Charlotte Cardeza survived the sinking along with just one of her Pekes.
Rangers captured an Iraqi forward observer dressed as a civilian after sinking his kayak with.
The whale feces are liquid and instead of sinking, they stay at the surface where phytoplankton feed off it.
Unlike the fin whale, the sei whale tends not to rise high out of the water as it dives, usually just sinking below the surface.
They fed on its sinking carcass for about 15 minutes before leaving the area.
In the open ocean, many sinking cells are lost to the deep, but refuge populations can persist near the thermocline.
It was once assumed that species actively regulate their buoyancy via intracellular lipids to counter sinking.
The dwarf hacked at Sod's boot, sinking his axeblade deep into the Banker's foot.
They often do this in spurts of several seconds before closing the shell entirely and sinking back to the bottom of their environment.
Daily he became more atrabiliary, sinking into a state of melancholy that eliminates the joy of living into the sadness of living.
The sinking of the Lusitania was widely used as propaganda against the German Empire and caused greater support for the war effort.
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Recent rescues include saving two men from a sinking dinghy and helping a water scooter rider who had run out of fuel.
The gravel will keep the steel pipe from sinking, even if underlying permafrost melts, Repp said.
Sinking his teeth into her gorge, he grotesquely tore her throat out.
They require a surrounding which keeps them from sinking into apathy through tasks which they are able to solve and duties they can carry out.
The sinking claimed 1,198 lives, 128 of them American civilians, and the attack of this unarmed civilian ship deeply shocked the Allies.
Among these is the only documented instance of a submarine sinking another submarine while both were submerged.
The water sinking into the Nidderdale caves reappears at the rising Nidd Head to the south of the village of Lofthouse.
These new collieries suffered many problems during the sinking of their shafts through wet sandstone and quicksand.
Icebergs have been responsible for the sinking of many ships, the most famous being the Titanic.
This can be seen with sinking of the Elsecar New Colliery by the 4th Earl Fitzwilliam.
The floods resulted in the closure of both businesses until early 2010 as well as the sinking of moored yachts and severe road blockages.
He then lost control of Bluebird, which somersaulted and crashed, sinking rapidly.
The shaft liner does not reach right to the bottom of the shaft during sinking, but lags behind by a fixed distance.
In extreme circumstances, particularly when sinking through Halite, composite liners consisting of two or more materials may be required.
And since my skin space has been expanding in a direct correlation to the sinking of prawn bhunas I figured I was going to make a killing.
The 35-year-old has notched four goals in two games after sinking Macclesfield with a double strike in the opening 14 minutes.
A 56-year-old Croatian man has been rescued from his sinking boat, seconds before it was dragged under the waters of River Sava in Zagreb.
Today shaft sinking contractors are concentrated in Canada, Germany and South Africa.
The importer is obliged to pay the exporter a base price which keeps the price from sinking below that level.
The shaft became stuck at one point during its sinking as the pressure of the earth around it held it firmly in position.
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As the tunnel approached the Wapping shore, work began on sinking a vertical shaft similar to the Rotherhithe one.
In 1912, the manager of the company William Edward Hipkins, died at the sinking of Titanic while he was travelling as a first class passenger.
However, the Spanish ship was taking on water and sinking, either from the ramming or from the artillery of the Mauritius.
On June 4, there was another encounter with natives near Sanibel Island and the Calusa in war canoes, with the Spanish sinking a fourth of them.
He also did not want to disrupt the audience's melancholy after the Titanic's sinking.
He wanted to honor the people who died during the sinking, so he spent six months researching all of the Titanic's crew and passengers.
That would explain why she's sinking a shedload of cash into her mate Kristian Marr's future as a singer.
With the ship sinking, Rose flees Cal and her mother, who has boarded a lifeboat, and frees Jack.
As autumn approached, Germany found success in both Portuguese Africa, and against Portuguese vessels, sinking multiple ships.
In 1494 de la Cosa received compensation from the Spanish monarchs for the sinking of his ship on his first voyage.
Myomancy. Divination by mice or rats, for instance, rats leaving a sinking ship.
A CAR owner had that sinking feeling after he discovered his motor had ended up in the river at Milnsbridge.
There was never a clear timetable of treatment indicated and, all the while, I had a sinking feeling he was already very very sick.
Who can forget that sinking feeling in both the 1998 and 1999 finals when you realised we were beaten within the first five minutes.
But why do I get that horrible sinking feeling, the same one that comes on every time dualling the A1 north of Morpeth is discussed?
It may be January but Classic Lodges has a winter warmer to beat off any sinking feeling.
The cause and responsibility for the sinking of the ship remained unclear after a board of inquiry.
Meanwhile, Russia is sinking ever deeper into its economic morass.
In 1953, it was the scene of a serious maritime disaster, the sinking of the ferry Princess Victoria.
The case is not believed to be connected to South Korea's sinking of a North Korean minisubmarine last December, he added.
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Sediments were forming at about the same rate as the crust below was sinking due to the added weight.
A second cargo ship with 14 crew members was in difficulty and was at risk of sinking, shipping agent GAC Turkey said.
The coastguards intercepted a 10-meter boat off the territorial sea while sinking, the same source indicates.
A major storm was unleashed, sinking most of the fleet and a large number of Vikings fled in their ships.
When news of the sinking reached the US, few shipping companies felt truly safe anywhere.
During the sinking of the last 150 feet, a pilot-hole was kept in advance, so as to prevent any unforeseen inrush of water.
Collecting a team they moved swiftly to rescue what they could, sinking tunnels to the side to search for fragments.
Recent studies have suggested that the city is no longer sinking, but a state of alert remains in place.
The sinking of Venice slowed after artesian wells were banned in the 1960s, but the city remains threatened by the acqua alta floods.
The Englishman turned on the style after the break, sinking a superb total clearance of 131 to take the lead for the first time.
After the sinking of the ocean liner on 15 April 1912, survivors were rescued by the RMS Carpathia of the Cunard Line.
On 13 September, they carried out another large raid on the Channel ports, sinking 80 large barges in the port of Ostend.
After the sinking, the partially buried wreck created a barrier at a right angle against the currents of the Solent.
The most common explanation for the sinking among modern historians is that the ship was unstable for a number of reasons.
An eyewitness testimony right after the sinking refers to a survivor who was a Fleming, and the pilot may very well have been French.
In his new political positions, and encouraged by his advisers, Walpole introduced the sinking fund, a device to reduce the national debt.
It is uncommon for modern vessels to suffer disasters such as fire, explosion, or a sinking.
The precise cause of her sinking is still unclear, because of conflicting testimonies and a lack of conclusive physical evidence.
The British scored a significant victory on 27 May 1941 by sinking the German battleship Bismarck.
There is a memorial depicting the sinking of the Association in the church at the Narboroughs' home of Knowlton near Dover.
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The exact number of officers, sailors and marines who were killed in the sinking of the four ships is unknown.
They flourish where the rate of sediment buildup is greater than the rate at which the land level is sinking.
Another example is the hurricane in The Perfect Storm, which describes the sinking of the Andrea Gail by the 1991 Perfect Storm.
In all three cases structural failure due to overloading with a much denser cargo than designed is considered the most likely cause of sinking.
The sinking of Francisco de Bobadilla's Spanish fleet in 1502 was the first recorded instance of a destructive hurricane.
The April 1912 sinking of the Titanic however changed all that, and created the demand for a system to observe icebergs.
It is also noted for its proximity to the sinking of the RMS Titanic and thus the launching point of Titanic shipwreck expeditions.
All these dense water masses sinking into the ocean basins displace the older deep water masses that were made less dense by ocean mixing.
The brine progressively melts the ice just beneath it, eventually dripping out of the ice matrix and sinking.
The great quantities of dense water sinking at high latitudes must be offset by equal quantities of water rising elsewhere.
In this current understanding, plate motion is mostly driven by the weight of cold, dense plates sinking into the mantle at trenches.
May was unable to sail the Herald out of the harbour, sinking twice and damaging the vehicle beyond repair.
The JCB and dumper truck were stranded in sinking sand at Rhos on Sea harbour during a dredging operation.
For much of the war this submarine campaign was restricted by prize rules requiring merchant ships to be warned and evacuated before sinking.
Declaring the vessel a hazard to navigation was an understatement as two more collisions happened with MV Tricolor in the days after the sinking.
Rommel himself noted in his diary that with the sinking of Tergestea and Proserpina the battle was lost.
Soon after the sinking of HMS Charybdis on 23 October 1943, the bodies of 21 Royal Navy and Royal Marines men were washed up in Guernsey.
The higher wages for workers combined with sinking prices on grain products led to a problematic economic situation for the gentry.
Planning for a massive Spring Offensive in 1918, it resumed the sinking of all merchant ships without warning.
The Soviet FACs prompted a NATO response, which became more intense after the sinking of Eilat.

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