How To Use Afloat In A Sentence
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But they emphasise the importance of relinquishing some of what you've been struggling to keep afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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But she also comes across as a humourless frump, needing constant cajoling from her husband to stay afloat.
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He says fear of failure keeps him afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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After four hours afloat, the gorge narrowed to some two hundred yards.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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She had to remortgage her house to keep the business afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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And for those who want to stay afloat, or sail out of the doldrums, experienced and effective management will become even more crucial.
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Therefore, the boat was equipped with fifteen watertight compartments, strictly divided up lengthways and breadthways, so she could stay afloat whatever happened.
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HAMILTON: What keeps them afloat is the bestsellers.
Jonathan Maberry Interviews Laurell K. Hamilton
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But even the cutesy spelling of the store's name couldn't keep it afloat; the space has now reinvented itself as Spirit Halloween superstore.
Harmon Leon: Do All Closed Businesses in SF Resurrect as Halloween Superstores?
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By now my igloo had become a small lake, and I was trying desperately to stay afloat.
RESCUING ROSE
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And when it was afloat all the chiefs were athirst, not being used to such toil; and I was told to climb the palms beside the canoe-sheds and throw down drink-coconuts.
THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
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Stress is high, but in all likelihood, enough things are going well to keep you afloat for now.
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According to Page there are still more admirals ashore than ships afloat, more air marshals than squadrons aloft.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her mother took three jobs to keep them afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the right hands it is probably the most adaptable and seaworthy vessel afloat.
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I therefore kept the felucca away until I found that she was rather more than holding her own in the race, when I once more lashed the tiller, and, calling to Dominguez to look out for the things that I was about to launch overboard, ran to the gangway, and first successfully set the wash-deck tub afloat, then rolled the breaker of water out through the open _gangway_, and finally sent the mast and sail adrift; after which I returned to the tiller and watched the process of picking up the several articles, as I gradually brought the felucca to her former course, close-hauled upon the starboard tack.
A Pirate of the Caribbees
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She was trying desperately to stay afloat.
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Wondrous sights seen along the way mixed and mingled with mystic truths discussed afloat a rolling ocean in daily yoga classes with Gurudeva and his swamis.
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There's a story afloat that he'll resign.
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He says fear of failure keeps him afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘If the central bank cuts rates, it will help take the pressure off many companies as we try to stay afloat in this difficult time,’ he said.
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Of course they have to make money to stay afloat.
The Sun
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But like lefties everywhere, clinging to whatever jetsam keeps us afloat, I believe every revolution ere now was betrayed.
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They had been in the water for more than four hours, struggling to stay afloat with just one life vest between them, and had not been seen despite drifting into one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
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Certainly, the weakening contract prices are a blow to the company as it struggles to stay afloat under the weight of massive debt.
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Is there not rather just cause for wonder that he did not speedily sink to the bottom, but that, on the contrary, he kept afloat, advanced to conspicuity and fame, and would, in all probability, have ultimately come with flying colours to a mooring in the port of honour and happiness, if Death had not unexpectedly arrested him in his progress.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3
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There have been times in my life when it has been the lifeline keeping me afloat in a very chaotic world.
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Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachmans wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep itand themselvesafloat.
Days of Atonement by Michael Gregorio: Book summary
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That leaves uninsured and underinsured low-income residents having to rely on safety-net providers who are already overwhelmed and struggling to stay afloat.
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They are urged to expand lending, replenish their reserves and pay back the taxpayer for the huge capital injections that have kept them afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the time, it was the largest cruise ship afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has been afloat for three days at a stretch, unable to land safely on any of those rocky islands, trapped on the boat, using a bucket for his latrine, running short of gas, putting life jackets on the carboys of drinking water in anticipation of shipwreck, and then finally limping back to Bahia without having captured a single chuckwalla—which for him represents the penultimate indignity.
The Song of The Dodo
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He is struggling to keep afloat after a series of emotional and health problems.
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The prize gives special emphasis to research which improves the management or techniques in sick bays ashore and afloat.
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With the ships at last afloat, all was hustle and bustle as they were prepared for sea.
VOYAGES OF DELUSION: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason
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To make matters worse at the time he succeeded to the ownership of Barra, the Government reduced the duty on imported barilla, knocking out the prop which kept the kelping industry afloat.
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He apparently calculated to keep his impoverished system afloat and himself in power.
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For all its complexity, the series is kept afloat by immensely watchable performances.
Times, Sunday Times
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They emerged hours after the PM confirmed his role in keeping the charity afloat.
The Sun
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He claims brewery rent of 42,000 a year and dwindling trade mean he must work 80 hours a week just to stay afloat.
The Sun
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Boat designers feel that the days of conspicuous consumption afloat may be numbered.
Times, Sunday Times
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What is keeping us afloat is further debt expansion.
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The lack of the qualities which are indispensable to any one of these may, and probably will, prove an abyss deep enough to ingulf the largest commercial ship afloat.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
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To this day, after she was brought down twice, once by a hurricane and the again by the failure of a few 50-cent pine dowels that served as stopwaters along the sternpost, I still struggle to keep my wooden boat afloat.
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She was enraptured by the sight of two young men sitting in half barrels trying to sink one another whilst staying afloat in a freshwater pond.
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A chance to go afloat on a working scientific research vessel to learn how the oceans work is on offer this half-term.
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I instantly panicked, clumsily splashing and flailing about as I instinctively fought to keep myself afloat.
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Alishia Muehlfarth kept the nearly unconscious non-swimmer afloat until emergency paramedics arrived to haul him out.
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In spite of the storm, this enormous and exotic black ship nevertheless manages to stay afloat and steady on its course.
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When the ship began to sink, the franchisor left its charge afloat in turbulent waters, without a life jacket.
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Aged 52, Parker was 13 years older than even his Captain, and by far the oldest rating in the Royal Navy still serving afloat.
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To stay afloat, he remortgaged his house once with the help of the union.
'Silent Raids' Squeeze Illegal Workers
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Chandra Shekhar's efforts at keeping his minority government afloat ended in March 1991.
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So the federal government must make a special effort to keep AIDS vaccine research afloat, Gallo said.
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We're already afloat, therefore our boats must be functional.
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We easily transformed the spelling into "gondola," and in fancy were afloat on Venetian waters, under some overhanging balcony, perhaps at the very Palace of the Doges, -- willingly blind to the reality of a mudscow leaning against some rickety wharf posts, covered with barnacles.
A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)
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Although they had provisions to last a few days, they subsisted on bare minimum of rice gruel for energy to stay afloat.
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Her right nipple is deformed and is football shaped but could still definitely keep one afloat.
Susie Feldman Playboy Photos NSFW
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So jump on the "chancy" Obama boat and pray it will stay afloat!
Heavy turnout reported, few problems seen
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He found an inner tube which he wrapped round his mother to keep her afloat.
The Sun
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Analysts believe the larger insurers will have sufficient assets to withstand further falls, but some of the smaller companies may find staying afloat increasingly difficult.
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Almost every single one comes to us as a non-swimmer, and we turn them into someone not only capable of staying afloat, but also of performing in competition.
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The boat stuck on a sandbank but we soon got it afloat again.
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Delicate instruments, calculating machines, workshop machinery, portable tools, the pedrail, motors ashore and afloat, fire engines, automatic machines, sculpturing machines -- these are a few of the chapters which crowd this splendid volume.
To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story
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It's only the willingness of the foreign central banks to buy our debt that keeps us afloat.
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She was the St Mary's fast-afloat self-righting Arun-class lifeboat and Hal Carter was not just a Sallonian and a boatman.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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He found an inner tube which he wrapped round his mother to keep her afloat.
The Sun
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The thing that has got to keep us afloat until full skirts come in again will be a full and complete line of women's satin messaline knickerbockers made up to match any suit or gown, and a full line of pajamas for women and girls.
Roast Beef, Medium
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They are also involved in firefighting to keep their businesses afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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In spite of my warnings about leaving the boat where it would stay afloat, the inevitable had happened and he was stranded.
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Snappy dialogue, a rollicking storyline of love and piracy, and excellent supporting turns by Harlow, Beery, and Lewis Stone keep the bumptious "China Seas" afloat for the whole voyage.
John Farr: Clark Gable: King of Hollywood
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It is a tracked, armoured, amphibious vehicle designed to engage armoured ground and air targets while stationary, on the move and afloat.
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The ship was pulled into a port beneath the palace, where it remained afloat on dark blue waters.
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‘I'm obviously going to have a go at it, but it will be extremely difficult to stay afloat,’ said Mr Smith, who runs the business by himself.
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After four hours afloat, the gorge narrowed to some two hundred yards.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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Some gamekeepers are employing increasingly desperate measures to keep their estates afloat, according to Scotland's first full-time wildlife crime police officer.
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Nowadays, these wooden clinker-built dinghies are equipped with reliable outboard motors which means you no longer need forearms like Popeye to go afloat on Leven.
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How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?
Times, Sunday Times
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And then again, I brought to mind that Harry would be a heavy purse the better of sending me to Davy's locker, seeing we had both been just paid off, and got a lot of prize-money to boot; -- and at last (the real red devil having fairly got me helm a-larboard) I argufied with myself that Tom Mills would be as well alive, with Harry Holmes's luck in his pocket, as he could be dead, and _his_ in Harry Holmes's; not to say nothing of taking one's own part, just to keep one's self afloat, if so be Harry let his mind run as mine was running.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4
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Emma is more practical than religious, so when stormy seas threatened to overwhelm her she did all the things that sailors do to keep their boats afloat, and hoped for the best.
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The boat stuck on a sandbank but we soon got it afloat again.
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In this dilemma, I turned to one of my three friends, a gentleman whom I knew to possess an enviable flow of silver speech, and obtested him, by whatever he deemed holiest, to give me at least an available thought or two to start with, and, once afloat, I would trust to my guardian-angel for enabling me to flounder ashore again.
Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
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In water polo, our timeouts consist of eggbeatering (treading water) to stay afloat.
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In a desperate effort to keep the faltering tour project afloat, both sides agreed earlier this year to build an overland route across the demilitarized zone to carry many more tourists at much cheaper prices.
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Altogether I should think there were about ten or a dozen boats or rafts afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are borrowing just to stay afloat, not for investment.
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Only English handouts are keeping the economy afloat.
The Sun
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The galleass was the most splendid vessel of her kind afloat, Don Hugo one of the greatest of Spanish grandees.
English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4
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Which leads me to a sense of wonder: Can there really be that many tasteless, stupid tourists about to keep a show this witless and sorry afloat for so long?
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They emerged hours after the PM confirmed his role in keeping the charity afloat.
The Sun
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We'd boarded the five-masted square-rigger Royal Clipper about 12 hours earlier, but my first evening afloat was shrouded in a somewhat hazy glow.
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Hakodate, pumping double watches to keep afloat just because a whale took a smash at us?
CHAPTER XII
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The woman being to – day the captain of the marriage bark, either steers into the vast Pacific waters of lord – and – masterdom, though never, of course, hauling down the flag of perfect love; or else, much more frequently these latter days, she steers into the rather grey Atlantic of true friendship and companionship, still keeping the flag of perfect love bravely afloat.
Kangaroo
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So what keeps the ship afloat?
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether they can actually negotiate voluntary restraints remains unclear, since presumed offenders are peddling cut-rate steel in part to keep shaky economies afloat.
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The lower deck is afloat.
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Since then, the business has generated sufficient sales and garnered enough grants for basic research to stay afloat without going into debt.
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The plain fact is, he kept the Giants afloat in a strange, uneven championship season.
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How long did you spend afloat?
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A mountaineer therefore in Avaria or Koomookha who considered himself aggrieved by a decision of his khan, and who dared not complain openly, could relieve his outraged feelings only by inventing and setting afloat an anonymous pasquinade.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
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The president was forced to borrow from France to keep the country afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just letting the natural buoyancy of the water keep me afloat.
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The pirates attacked us with everything they had, which was significantly more than we did, and we were hard pressed to even stay afloat in the water.
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It was a thrilling experience to see the boats afloat over the stream.
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With the ships at last afloat, all was hustle and bustle as they were prepared for sea.
VOYAGES OF DELUSION: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason
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Their value to the fleet was highlighted during the invasion of Okinawa, when kamikaze attacks upon the Fifth Fleet created high numbers of casualties among the forces afloat.
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One cannot really blame them because even the best talent in women's athletics have found it difficult to stay afloat in the international arena.
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Some 50,000 tons are landed in a few short weeks, a flurry of activity which in itself is enough to keep the island economy afloat.
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The Grand Canal adjoining the fountain, with gondolas and rowing boats afloat, was once the scene of many festivities and was called Petit-Venice (little Venice).
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Far from lolling around, most need to take part-time jobs to stay afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the badly injured seaman struggled to stay afloat in the freezing water - he was not wearing a lifejacket - crewmen from his ship threw lifebuoys.
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Several of the lifeboats were still afloat a month after being cast adrift .
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It was clear from the report that the club depend almost entirely on sponsorship to keep them afloat as rising costs are making life very difficult for them and their mentors.
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With the ships at last afloat, all was hustle and bustle as they were prepared for sea.
VOYAGES OF DELUSION: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason
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Originally designed as freight ships, these may not be the most glamorous vessels afloat, but are pleasantly spacious.
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Juvenile sea turtles have not developed this ability and must sleep afloat at the water's surface.
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The boat stuck on a sandbank but we soon got it afloat again.
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As a developing nation, Brazil has adopted punitive interest rates to stay afloat in the midst of economic shocks.
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As she fights to remain afloat, familiar ingredients of the spy thriller bob into view.
Times, Sunday Times
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Through their last days afloat, the crew continued to exercise energetically, especially in damage control.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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No person shall go afloat without first completing an enrolment form.
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The crews are trained to undertake tows of crippled boats, extinguish fires afloat and provide first aid.
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Hurling his arms and legs about wildly,he kept afloat but wasted much effort.
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The club went into administration and was rescued by a supporters' consortium which scraped together £210,000 to keep it afloat.
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With the ships at last afloat, all was hustle and bustle as they were prepared for sea.
VOYAGES OF DELUSION: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason
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A buffet lunch of ham in aspic and salads and cold beef was arranged beneath it, afloat on its own sea of white damask.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Joey survives the fall from the ocean liner and's able to stay afloat on a passing bale of pot until she's pulled to safety by Stranahan.
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As she fights to remain afloat, familiar ingredients of the spy thriller bob into view.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could not swim and only a life jacket kept him afloat.
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Ably financiered by the Book Agent, who held on, and worked on, with a a tenacity that demands universal praise, it kept afloat during the dark war days, when many richer journals and longer established, had to succumb.
An Apology for African Methodism
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His courtesy and his gentle good humour made him easy company afloat and ashore.
Times, Sunday Times
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It simply means that at a time when gas prices are through the roof and people are scrambling to stay afloat in a desperate American economy, that millions of people were willing to fork over their hard-earned money to sit in a theater for two and a half hours and watch a story about rich people whose idea of a cutback is two pairs of Jimmy Choo’s instead of three.
High fashion and low class make strange bedfellows in “Sex and the City” » Scene-Stealers
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He found an inner tube which he wrapped round his mother to keep her afloat.
The Sun
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The club provides social activities to 150 members with learning difficulties and relies on charity donations and fundraising to keep afloat.
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It is the profligate consumer who has kept the economy afloat since 2000.
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And because dense bones tend to sink, black swimmers need to work much harder and expend more energy to keep afloat.
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She recalled flailing in the water, desperately trying to keep afloat and barely aware of the screams and chaos around her when she heard the voice offering help.
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They groom them constantly, keeping the pups' fur in such good condition that it keeps the pup afloat and unable to sink.
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The ship was listing badly but still kept afloat.
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I'm wondering if you or anybody else in here has some thoughts on how to make sure the criticism that's certain to erupt is pointed directly at Sims where it rightly belongs and not squandered by targeting the skeleton crew of hapless victims down there trying to keep Elections afloat?
Sound Politics: Ward of the State
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There is some talk afloat among our party of removing further up the country, nearer to the mountains, where gold is said to be in greater abundance.
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He coughed, and spat water from his mouth, trying to keep himself afloat.
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But having promised a modern conservatism, the compromises needed to keep the coalition afloat have blurred her policies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each of the couples, after the common involutions and evolutions, successively whirls round in a circle, till all are in motion; and the dance seems intended to shew how emigration catches, till a whole neighbourhood is set afloat.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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It has probably the most sophisticated buoyancy and stabilizer system afloat.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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But just how do you keep your company afloat during the tough months and years that may lie ahead?
The Sun
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But even the cutesy spelling of the store's name couldn't keep it afloat; the space has now reinvented itself as Spirit Halloween superstore.
Harmon Leon: Do All Closed Businesses in SF Resurrect as Halloween Superstores?
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Hereford lived dangerously but by half time were still managing to keep afloat.
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A yachtsman, who had been seeking shelter, had used his boathook to keep her afloat.
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The children set their new boat afloat on the lake.
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With the ships at last afloat, all was hustle and bustle as they were prepared for sea.
VOYAGES OF DELUSION: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason
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His optimism has kept the team afloat, but it will be difficult to recover fully from failing to finish three of the first five races.
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Lines as corny as this can have someone in the audience break into laughter, and the thin crust of magic that keeps the film afloat will fall into splinters.
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Several of the lifeboats were still afloat a month after being cast adrift .
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Water-lilies have large numbers of air pockets in their tissues which keep their leaves afloat on the water surface, a perfect supply of air for an insect able to get to it.
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The paltry 34 billion that the “American Auto makers” need to stay afloat is nothing compared to the seven trillion we have spent covering the bankers bets.
Obama Praises Efforts by Besieged Automakers - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Charlton and their manager have created an ethos that has kept the club not just afloat but positively buoyant.
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Last month the Doncaster-based firm said up to 40 miners at the colliery would have to lose their jobs in order for the pit to stay afloat.
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Furthermore, your claim that defense spending keeps our economy afloat is also ridiculous.
Government blues
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As the badly injured seaman struggled to stay afloat in the freezing water - he was not wearing a lifejacket - crewmen from his ship threw lifebuoys.
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There was an exodus of players and by 2012 Wasps were battling to stay afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could not swim and only a life jacket kept him afloat.
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But the commodore leading the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training exercise in Southeast Asia decided to take the Thai born reservist out of the kitchen and put him in the wardroom.
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The salesman who came out to greet him had much the same look, a matelot trying to stay afloat.
MURDER SONG
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Altogether I should think there were about ten or a dozen boats or rafts afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are urged to expand lending, replenish their reserves and pay back the taxpayer for the huge capital injections that have kept them afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pumps were put on the vessel, which was holed, to keep it afloat so that boats could try and tow it from the rocks.
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As we sit here dinking around, hundreds of thousands of kids are growing up without quality parenting, in shitty neighborhoods, spending their tedious days in schools that are over-crowded, underfunded factories staffed by over-worked teachers just trying to keep the kids afloat until they can hopefully all trickle out senior year into low-wage jobs, drug abuse, pregnancy, and the prison system.
Matthew Yglesias » Charter School Metaphors
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Keep it afloat, keep it buoyant.
Times, Sunday Times
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A lock canal can be built which will meet all requirements; it can be built deep enough and wide enough to accommodate the largest vessels afloat; it can be so built that transit across the Isthmus can be effected in a reasonably short period of time -- in a word, it is a practical project, which will solve every pending question involved in the construction of a transisthmian canal in a practical way, at a reasonable cost, and within a reasonable period of time.
The American Type of Isthmian Canal Speech by Hon. John Fairfield Dryden in the Senate of the United States, June 14, 1906
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With amateur stars posting online videos for free and studio movies being pirated, studios may feel that barebacking is necessary for them to stay afloat.
Kellee Terrell: Why the Porn Industry's HIV Problem Is Our Problem, Too
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Among people, ambiguity in sexuality and indefinable emotions, cause them to drift afloat endlessly.
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A while back I discussed how the powers that be will do ‘whatever it takes’ to keep this overweighted barge afloat.
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You can design your own speedboat or paddle boat and see how fast it can go - or even whether it will stay afloat.
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What to some might seem a distasteful consumer frenzy in the wake of so much human suffering is crucial to keeping our economy afloat.
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the main deck was afloat (or awash)
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The new steps allow her to walk unaided into the water, where she can exercise her arms and legs while lying on a special mat to keep her afloat.
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I had drawn a division of "snipes" for my temporary brothers, boilermen and machinists who dwelt in the bowels of our ancient aircraft carrier, firing oil-burning furnaces and patching 1100-pound pressure leaks along the steam lines to keep the ship afloat and operational.
The Draft
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The artist had been set afloat at sea in a large clear bubble, naked, as several other empty bubbles bobbed on the waves around him.
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The children set their new boat afloat on the lake.
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It had coasted along for nearly thirty years as an upmarket, vaguely philanthropical, increasingly ailing travel monthly, kept afloat recently by advertisements for Oriental holidays and luxury cruises.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
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We have seen that scene repeated so many times that it is refreshing to see that there are still a wife of a political bigwig who does not compromise her personal integrity to keep her husband's political career afloat.
Sanford's wife: He's earned a second chance
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I had to battle hard just to stay afloat.
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It is believed to be costing him around £400,000 a week to keep the club afloat as it has massive debts and players' salaries to cover.
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We are swimming in it and trying to stay afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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To make matters worse at the time he succeeded to the ownership of Barra, the Government reduced the duty on imported barilla, knocking out the prop which kept the kelping industry afloat.
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The only reason why they are able to stay afloat is their buoyant sacs near their throats.
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In accord with my mother's advice I had endeavoured to cherish an affection for my uncle, yet withal there was something about the man that misliked me much, and, to speak straight to the point, that actually 'fley'd' me, for he would gloat o 'night over his glass of toddy on any scandal afloat concerning the' unco guid, 'and would speak with tongue i' the cheek of virtue in general, as if indeed hypocrisy were the true king of this world.
Border Ghost Stories
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But the interim boss insists he is already a success after keeping them afloat in impossible circumstances.
The Sun
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As she fights to remain afloat, familiar ingredients of the spy thriller bob into view.
Times, Sunday Times
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Somehow we kept the ship afloat.
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The only reason why they are able to stay afloat is their buoyant sacs near their throats.
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But, when it came to our showing in the League, we could consider our seventh place to their fifth a great achievement in light of our difficulties merely keeping afloat.
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Three corpses were stretched on the afterpart of the deck near the wheelhouse -- which had been wrenched away, along with the binnacle and bulwarks, and the cabin skylight, while the hull was full of water and kept afloat only by the buoyant nature of the cargo, although they could not discover what that was, as it was completely submerged.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
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Huge reserves of uranium barely keep the economy afloat.
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A buffet lunch of ham in aspic and salads and cold beef was arranged beneath it, afloat on its own sea of white damask.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Far from lolling around, most need to take part-time jobs to stay afloat.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are rumours afloat that an election might happen in the spring.
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The revenue sent back by family members working abroad has kept the economy afloat during the recent, difficult war years.
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The only thing that keeps him and his family afloat is the fact that he earns enough to pay for it.
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