Thirty minutes later, the outrigger grated on sand and other girls, waiting on shore, rushed forward to pull it up on the beach and make it fast with vine ropes to a large boulder.

Operating side by side, together they helped shore up the nation-state.

But for the United States and its SEATO allies to attempt to shore up a less tough, less combat-tested government army in monsoon-shrouded, road-shy, guerrilla-th'-wisp terrain is a risk not savored by Pentagon planners.

A network of sampling stations had been set up on shore.

Usually it is only when they approach shallow water on the shore that they build up to their terrifying heights.

In the Iliad when Zeus sends Apollo to revive the wounded Hector of Troy, Apollo, holding the aegis, charges the Achaeans, pushing them back to their ships drawn up on the shore.

Borland lacked the financial strength to project its marketing and move internal resources off other products to shore up the dBASE / W effort.

How better to shore up an uncertain ally than by endorsing Zionist aims?

Areas with high tidal ranges allow waves to reach farther up the shore, and areas with lower tidal ranges produce deposition at a smaller elevation interval.

Claudius was constantly forced to shore up his position ; this resulted in the deaths of many senators.

They were in a position where they needed to shore up their legitimacy, but also justify the fall of the Julio-Claudians.

The team's commitment to contend was complete when Green made a midseason deal on June 15 to shore up the starting rotation due to injuries to Rick Reuschel ( 5 – 5 ) and Sanderson.

Eisenhower applied the doctrine in 1957 – 58 by dispensing economic aid to shore up the Kingdom of Jordan, and by encouraging Syria's neighbors to consider military operations against it.

Keen to modernise his country and free it from foreign domination, Amanullah, sought to shore up his powerbase.

The crew runs afoul of the giant shrimp Ebirah, and washes up on the shore of an island, where a terrorist organization manufactures heavy water for their purposes, as well as a chemical that keeps Ebirah at bay.

Among measures taken by Conte to try and shore up his support within the military after 2007 was the transfer of the ' popular Sékouba Konaté to Conakry to head the parachute Autonomous Battalion of Airborne Troops ( French acronym BATA ) in an attempt to calm the troops.

A single egg was laid on bare ground up to from shore.

The Reds, on the other hand, would shore up many problems.

The Ottoman rulers of the 19th century struggled to shore up central authority, introducing reforms aimed at harnessing unruly pashas and checking the spread of nationalist ideas.

Most of the voyages sent out by Henry consisted of one or two ships that navigated by following the coast, stopping at night to tie up along some shore.

National jurisdiction over the seabed normally leaves off at seaward from baselines running along the shore, unless a nation can demonstrate that its continental shelf is naturally prolonged beyond that limit, in which case it may claim up to.

Stranded on shore, he worked his way back to Kozhikode, from where he returned to the Maldives and boarded a Chinese junk, still intending to reach China and take up his ambassadorial post.

Claudius was constantly forced to shore up his position — resulting in the deaths of many senators.

" In 1860, this species, taken on incidental catches of other fishes, was killed and dumped back in the lake, piled up on shore to dry and be burned, fed to pigs, or dug into the earth as fertilizer.

One week before the convention, Depew was seated on the porch of a country home on the Hudson, gazing at the opposite shore.

Most of the country lies at between 200 and 300 meters above sea level, but Kazakhstan's Caspian shore includes some of the lowest elevations on Earth.

As the Sahara dried after 2000 BCE, the north of Niger became the desert it is today, with settlements and trade routes clinging to the Air in the north, the Kaouar and shore of Lake Chad in the west, and ( apart for a scattering of oases ) most people living along what is now the southern border with Nigeria and the southwest of the country.

It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg.

The " Marine Base ", a marina built in the style of the country club, is located at a midpoint along the lake on the eastern shore.

Sharing the name of the local country club, " Carolina Shores " could be considered a misnomer since the town does not have a " shore " with any large body of water.

Bordered on its eastern shore by the Lake Houston, the community contains several parks, country clubs, and golf courses, including Atascocita Country Club, Walden on Lake Houston Golf and Country Club, and Tour 18, a recreation of some of the United States ' most celebrated golf holes.

* Something of, from, or related to Lebanon, a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

Turkey is a country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, and is a crossroad of cultures from across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus and South and Central Asia.

The Peruvian Paso has been declared a Patrimonio Cultural ( Cultural Heritage ) of Peru in an attempt to shore up the breed within the country.

Lillafüred and Felsőhámor are pretty villages in a valley surrounded by mountains and forests ; their most famous sights are the Hotel Palace on the shore of the Lake Hámori, the Szinva waterfall ( the highest waterfall of the country ), the Anna Cave and the István Cave.

; High voltage: Refers to shore power, generator power or power from a power inverter, which is AC at the standard household voltage and frequency of one's country, used to run air conditioners, televisions and stereo systems, microwave ovens, electrical refrigerators, electric space heaters and electric water heaters.

A memorial on the northern shore of the lake was erected by Norwegian seamen in 1978 in thanks for the safe haven they were given in Britain after their country surrendered to the Germans in 1940, during the Second World War.

By 20 May 1862, McKinlay was around five miles ( 8 km ) from the shore of the Gulf, but the intervening country was found to be impassable and he decided to turn east and make for Port Denison on the north Queensland coast.

The Goplans, which some researchers identify with the Mazowszanie-Kłobianie or simply with the Kujawianie, had created a country with the main centers in Kruszwica on the northern shore of Lake Gopło.

Related terms include nearshoring, which implies relocation of business processes to ( typically ) lower cost foreign locations, but in close geographical proximity ( e. g., shifting United States-based business processes to Canada / Latin America ); inshoring, which means picking services within a country ; and bestshoring or rightshoring, picking the " best shore " based on various criteria.

Between these two settlements the land is rolling hill country, but elsewhere the land is mountainous, especially along its western shore, where the Kepler and Murchison Mountains rise 1, 400 m above the surface of the lake.

In the cottage country of Canada and the United States, a dock is a wooden platform built over water, with one end secured to the shore.

The volcano is an important source of energy for the south of the country, which is captured at the Nesjavellir power station ( near the western shore of the lake Þingvallavatn ) and the Hellisheiði power station ( approximately 11 km south and west of Nesjavellir ).

It is virtually an island, separated from most of the country by the Ébrié Lagoon, its other shore being on the Gulf of Guinea.

In consequence of all further operations coming under your own observation, I have nothing further to report, except that the men behaved gallantly, and deserve credit for the manner in which they marched over such a rough and hilly country, and under such intense, scorching heat ... The entire number of Marines on shore was forty-three, thirty-one of whom were from this ship, and twelve from the.

It would give me great pleasure to comply with his request and see you personally, but, as the military laws of my country prohibit me from going on board a foreign vessel, I regret to have to decline this honor and to ask that you will kindly come on shore, where I await you to accede to your wishes as far as possible, and to agree as to our mutual situations.

Shortly after returning to the United States in 1919, Rockey went to foreign shore duty in Haiti as a member of the Haitian Constabulary, where he remained until 1921, then returned to this country to join Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C.