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The ship is sinking.
Rats leave a sinking ship.
The crew had to abandon the sinking ship.
The captain was the last person to leave the sinking ship.
Rats desert a sinking ship.
The sun is sinking below the horizon.
They abandoned the sinking ship.
Antina had a sinking feeling in her stomach.
Between 1,490 and 1,635 people died in the sinking of the Titanic.
We're sinking.
Are we sinking?
They fled the doomed company like rats deserting a sinking ship.
The price of crude oil is sinking.
I escaped from the sinking boat with difficulty.
The passengers were taken off the sinking ship.
The sun is sinking in the west.
The ship is sinking!
The boat is sinking.
They're just like rats leaving a sinking ship.
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I've run aground. I'm holed, and I'm sinking.
We are sinking.
By the light ofthe sinking sun, the captain and first mate said goodbye to the last of their comrades.
Rats always desert a sinking ship.
The ship is sinking, sir.
The South's sinking to its knees. It'll never rise again.
There have always been sinking it is a very dangerous side.
They have caused the sinking that night.
You can not take the sinking!
You have prevented the sinking?
A barge is sinking.
You say it's sinking?
Sinking. Sinking bad!
He told me to tell you we were sinking in that shipwreck.
Lower gun deck's awash, we're sinking.
Do? We'll board a ship that's not sinking.
A Loophole never deserts a sinking ship.
The South's sinking to its knees.
Your ship's sinking, Captain.
Your ship is sinking.
I'm sinking in this mud. Hurry.
Talk, nothing. Bombs and torpedoes are sinking them.
If they think we're sinking, they won't waste a torpedo on us. They may surface.
It clung on, sinking its teeth into my hand.
The Funambules is sinking.
I must've looked away for a moment, then when I looked back, he was sinking.
They tried to hide it by sinking his body but the storm tore his body loose and threw it up!
It says she's sinking.
Bombs and torpedoes is what's been doing them sinking.
If they think we're sinking, they won't waste a torpedo on us.
Every wind is bad for a sinking ship.
But instead they only kept us. from sinking for a short while.
Have we stopped sinking?
I'm sinking! I'm sinking!
Pierre! I'm sinking!
I'm sinking!
Weather's good, ship ain't sinking! No one's lost overboard!
They're sinking.
News and current affairs
Meanwhile, the Bush Administration will blame the sinking economy, bad luck, and unintentional miscalculations for the vanished surplus.
The US was on the verge of sinking into isolationist nationalism, reinforced, perhaps, by xenophobic sentiment.
Its sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in 2010 were unprecedented, and raised inter-Korean tensions to their highest level in decades.
The tide of disarmament is rising, yet the CD is in danger of sinking.
This created a two-speed Europe, with debtor countries sinking under the weight of their liabilities, and surplus countries forging ahead.
The current crisis of the conservative cycle reflects the massive build-up of bad debt that became apparent with the sub-prime crisis, which started in June 2007 and has now spread to the whole credit market, sinking Lehman Brothers.
US debt hardly looks like a bargain right now, even without the sinking dollar.
If confidence declines, his historical understanding of the Great Depression of the 1930's could leave him ill-equipped to prevent such shocks from sinking the US, and the world, economy.
Part of the problem has been the sinking dollar, which makes dollar investments look bad when translated into yen or euro.
That recognition is gradually sinking in, at least in the government.
Even so, Putin does seem genuinely popular among a public longing for a leader who can anchor their country without sinking it.
But the financial crisis is only one of several crises facing the country: the underlying macroeconomic problem has been made worse by the sinking fortunes of the bottom half of the population.
SEOUL - After a painstaking investigation, South Korea is pointing the finger of blame at North Korea for the sinking of its warship, the Cheonan, on March 26.
The debate about how to respond is complicated by the fact that the Cheonan's sinking does not seem to be a stand-alone event, but was, instead, part of a change in North Korea's general pattern of behavior.
Indeed, disaster has stalked South Korea this year, beginning in April with the sinking of the ferry Sewol, which claimed some 300 lives, most of them high school students.
The temptation in Britain simply to abandon what appears to be a sinking ship and go it gloriously alone is growing stronger.
Those war games were, most immediately, a warning to North Korea of the strength of America's commitment to South Korea, following the North's sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan earlier this year.
Instead of being an international leader in the worldwide war against terrorism, it is sinking into the despair of a perpetual victim.
But the headline-making stories of sinking boats and drowning children are just the beginning.
North Korea has long been adept at flaunting its willingness to take risks, provoking a crisis in 2010 by sinking a South Korean naval vessel and shelling a South Korean island.
If they come to believe that Musharraf is sinking, they can be counted on to cut him loose, especially if he becomes a civilian.
The final misconception is that Hu might have demanded an explanation from Kim as to the causes of the fatal sinking of a South Korean vessel in late March.
South Korea undoubtedly faces the biggest dilemma, and the way forward will have to await the conclusions of the investigation into the sinking of its warship and the deaths of its sailors.
Today, the two largest Swiss banks are sinking in liabilities that exceed seven times the country's income.