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The Japanese fishing fleet catches more than 1000 whales per year on the pretext of scientific research.
A renowned tactician, Christopher Columbus once downed an entire pirate fleet by stealing all of their fruits and vegetables, thus giving them scurvy.
The mythical Kraken, thick as a ship and three times as wide, once made an attack on Christopher Columbus's fleet. giving Columbus no choice but to eat him.
The airline has grounded its fleet.
The Romans built a fleet of three hundred ships.
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Zheng He set sail in command of a crew of some 28,000 men in a fleet of dozens of these enormous ships.
Between 1 405 and 1 424, admiral Zheng He's fleet ranged far and wide.
Who could refuse to kowtow to an emperor possessed of so mighty a fleet?
In a short time, the fleet was loaded up with representatives of 30 different kings and chiefs ready to acknowledge the cosmic ascendancy of the Ming emperor.
It was here in the Castle of St George in the hills above Lisbon that the newly crowned Portuguese King Manuel appointed da Gama to command a fleet of ships, to make discoveries and go in search of spices.
The fleet is waiting and the King of France is ready to sail.
No doubt' the losses suffered o y the fleet' are serious.
I'll bet Manuel is the best fisherman in the whole fishing fleet, isn't he?
We shall build a fleet and sail to trade overseas.
They've got factories, shipyards, coal mines. and a fleet to bottle up our harbors and starve us.
We have with us tonight, that most daring of all blockade runners. whose fleet schooners, slipping past the Yankee guns. have brought us here the very woolens and laces we wear tonight.
What was that about the Roman fleet and Archimedes?
He probably thought I had big melting eyes and a rosebud mouth. and a figure like Miss Long Beach, the dream of the fleet.
Three weeks and not a pirate touched. and our fleet sailing around, quacking at the. wind like a line of ducks in a mill pond.
Last seen with a little man with large flat fleet and small moustache.
And these pearls. they're the choice from a fleet we captured off the Azores.
But the English fleet is at Port Royal.
But your uncle's with the fleet at Port Royal.
Aye, Bishop's entire fleet's at Jamaica.
There's Bishop's fleet.
Where is the English fleet that's supposed to protect the town?
Bishop would never let his fleet leave its post in time of war.
Yes. The fleet's in already.
No, sir. That's the flagship of the fleet.
Flogging through the fleet.
I'll live to see you, all of you hanging from the highest yardarm in the British fleet!
When you're back in England with the fleet you'll hear the hue and cry against me.
Mutiny and piracy will be rampant in the fleet.
Because they have Jack the Ripper, Burke and Hare. the Mad Butcher. the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, things that people pay to see!
Time is fleet.
I'm making sure no dame hooks me until I have a whole fleet of planes of my own.
Now the fleet muscles in at this spot, we hijack their ammunition the RAF spits on Berlin and we catch them with their panzers down.
I told you that the fleet muscles in here, the RAF.
The fleet's in.
The air assaults on the American fleet are continuing.
Jens, don't you remember what our captain back then wrote into our fleet calendar for christmas?
The lagoon there's called the Fleet. and that shallow over there is Portland Bill.
The men in that particular fleet also realize that we have a tremendous economic strength here, an economic strength that enables us to be protected against the boss, if such need arises.
Oh, incidentally, I assured Washington. that this was the best sub crew in the fleet.
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After all, Ukraine managed to eliminate its nuclear weapons and reach accommodation over the Black Sea fleet without joining a private economic bloc with Russia.
Not surprisingly, the US is the leading developer and user of drones, with a fleet of 7,500.
But, even with a road, you still must pay for tolls, gasoline, fleet maintenance, and other costs - and it can still take five days to get your goods to the coast if you want to export.
Second, the storage capacity of the vehicle fleet will play an important role in stabilizing the power grid.
The automobile fleet will become part of the overall power grid, and will be managed efficiently (and remotely) to optimize the timing of recharging from, and returning power to, the grid.
While Japan has suspended its plan to kill humpback whales, its Japanese whaling fleet will still kill about 1,000 other whales, mostly smaller minke whales.
Worse, he supported those groups that sought to increase German military power, including the creation of a high-sea fleet that could challenge the British navy.
Outraged at being forced to back down, the Japanese invested in shipyards to build a modern fleet.
With a diplomatic resolution ruled out, Japan launched a preemptive strike that annihilated the Russian Fleet in Port Arthur and Chemulpo, Korea.
The Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi, which led the attack on Pearl Harbor, flew the battle flag flown by the Mikasa, Admiral Togo's ship when he attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur.
And the EU should back Ukraine if it insists that the Russian Black Sea Fleet leaves on schedule in 2017.
It also presupposes a switchover to a zero-carbon transport fleet and a lot more production per kilowatt-hour of energy.
In 1978, Typhoon Rita wiped out the fleet of handmade wooden fishing boats in a group of sea-dependant Philippine communities.
There was an exodus by air, towards the Seventh Fleet patrolling the South China Sea; an exodus by sea saw waves of barges, fishing boats and other makeshift vessels.
Argentina has the world's largest fleet of vehicles running on compressed natural gas; families use gas intensively; most electricity is generated with gas; and the petrochemical industry is based on it.
In addition, 50,000 old taxis and 10,000 buses have been replaced, and 4,000 of the new buses are powered by natural gas - now the largest fleet of its kind in the world.
This is one of the highest such subsidies in the world, attesting to the authorities' seriousness about encouraging consumers and fleet owners to switch.
The city of Shenzhen, in China's Pearl River Valley, has 2,350 EVs in its municipal fleet.
And the conflict itself has shown that the Russian Black Sea Fleet, based in Sevastopol, can operate with impunity, whether Ukraine likes it or not.
While committed to the bilateral US-Japan alliance, Ozawa has said that Japan's security requires the continued presence only of the US Seventh Fleet, not of US ground troops.
Brazil has been mulling whom to pick to renew its Air Force's fighter fleet, and, whereas Lula favored France, Roussel canceled that option and may be leaning toward the US.