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Mothers often leave young behind while feeding offshore. Even a lone sea otter or seal pup is probably not abandoned!
Movie subtitles
But if, after you sail, you were to see a man adrift in a small boat, say five miles offshore, you'd have to pick him up, wouldn't you?
We'll be back tonight, and I don't think we'll go more than 30 miles offshore.
A boat can meet you offshore there.
I'm reducing speed shortly so it'll pass offshore.
Miss Gravely, what would you say if I told you I was only the captain of a tugboat on the East River and never got more than a mile or so offshore?
I'm full up with my present prosaic series on offshore oil.
According to reports from the offshore destroyers, Omaha is a shambles.
Boss Finley gave away the offshore oil of his state.
Yes, big ships that tie up at the SAROM offshore rig.
Best send a sub for some offshore observation.
If those batteries die out 100 miles offshore, we can have a big farewell party on the bottom of the ocean.
That large, flat, white rock you see offshore is called.
Sky t to Skydiver Control, it crashed about 100 yards offshore.
Rescue, I have Red Baron Five report of possible spacecraft offshore, southeast sector Alpha Charlie.
Winds offshore!
It's no good to get offshore empty handed.
Strangways and Quarrel checked the offshore islands.
Tracking stations show Godzilla heading in a southeasterly direction. towards the offshore islands of Japan.
Moored offshore, and why?
I've called you to this offshore location in the middle of the night because we're safer here than elsewhere from police interference.
The other side of the mainland, then about half mile offshore.
They're only 200 yards offshore.
Well, that's a mile and a half offshore.
I saw the hunky dory offshore this afternoon.
On the fourth day, a boat will stand offshore to pick you up here.
Captain, you'll cruise offshore north and central America.
I'll cruise offshore the island until dawn.
It is Sinbad, isn't it? Captain of the ship that lies offshore?
There's always a good offshore breeze in the morning.
News and current affairs
As we know from other contexts, adjustment to newcomers is not easy: compare, say, the reaction to the tie-up between France's Alcatel and America's Lucent to the bids by the China National Offshore Oil Corporation for Chevron or Mittal for Acelor.
Both countries should commit themselves to a diplomatic resolution of competing claims to offshore resources.
Essentially, the EU had simply shipped part of its emissions offshore.
Of course, there must be better (far better) and stricter regulation of offshore and out-of-bounds energy extraction, and severe penalties for mistakes.
A prolonged moratorium on offshore and other out-of-bounds energy exploration makes sense, but the real tragedy of the BP oil spill will be if the changes stop there.
And if China becomes too aggressive toward its neighbors - for example, by demanding rights to offshore oil or territory in disputed waters - it will generate a serious diplomatic backlash.
When China National Offshore Oil Company tried to buy America's UNOCAL two years ago, it set off a political firestorm in the United States.
This may or may not bring shudders of horror, but will certainly not occur outside the law or in some shadowy offshore location.
The British government, preoccupied with finding ways to stimulate growth as the next election approaches, will no doubt think hard before making any changes that might drive business offshore.
That is why Europe needs Britain: not as an offshore center of banking and commerce, but as a difficult, questioning, stubbornly democratic partner.
Holland and Belgium need a cost-effective way to develop their own offshore resources.
The Baltic states are also planning their own offshore grid.
Moreover, labor-intensive (i.e. low productivity) companies more readily outsource some tasks or go offshore altogether.
Given souring public sentiment, most of the future increase in wind turbines is expected to take place offshore, where there is less opposition, but where costs are much higher.
America's departure from Mesopotamia will likewise put the burden of problem solving onto Iraqis and other regional players, leaving the US offshore to assist when and where it deems appropriate.
That means that Asia is far more exposed to an offshore banking crisis today than it was in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers' collapse in 2008, which led to a near-meltdown of the US banking system.
If the US is to rely less on prepositioned forward deployments and more on acting as an offshore balancer, it will need to make fundamental changes in its post-1945 security system.
Beyond new frigates and security guarantees, however, Southeast Asian leaders have refrained from reacting too strongly to China's offshore ambitions.
What had been an offshore European island with bad weather emerged as the world's major economy, whose products, from textiles to railroad equipment, came to dominate world markets.
Just a hour-and-a-half flight south of Miami, we might expect that island to be a tropical paradise and a favored spot for offshore US business.
It would then be possible to get offshore financial centers to cooperate by threatening to isolate them.
Instead, companies hoarded vast cash reserves, mainly in tax-free offshore accounts.
Some of this debt is owed to Russian companies' offshore owners, who will certainly be happy to roll it over.