On March 23, 1875, 13 days after leaving Nares Harbor, soundings indicated a depth of 4,475 fathoms or about 27,000 feet. |
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The council was also advised of the negative response to informal government soundings. |
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From soundings I've taken inside the Labour Party, people cannot stomach a war and some are going to leave the party. |
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So he jumped below and spread the chart of Mag Bay out on the table and yelled soundings and direction to me. |
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Nuuk is rich with undertones, tidal washes, deep swathes of velvet mezzotint, patient soundings, submarinal echoes. |
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But although I took soundings from friends and peers, in the end I just followed my gut feeling and did what I thought felt right. |
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Recent soundings have suggested that clubs are evenly divided on the issue. |
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He has already said he is taking soundings from colleagues on whether or not to stand. |
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Informed soundings we've taken suggest that the initial outcry may have won only a temporary reprieve. |
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Moreover, the Government took soundings with the Parliament and the people of New Zealand. |
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Deep soundings above 6 fathoms were impracticable so the practice then was to sound the depth using a line and lead. |
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At the same time as the foundation trust consultation, the trust is taking soundings on whether or not it should change its name. |
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He made up his mind to run in May but took soundings before committing himself. |
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McNarry is to meet various shades of party opinion, take soundings and report to Trimble when he returns. |
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A team of Navy hydrographers would be sent in to conduct detailed soundings and tidal observations of both the Koksoak River and Frobisher Bay. |
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Operating from small rubber boats at night, the men took soundings of the water depth all along the planned invasion beaches. |
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I will have to pull together a management team of sorts and I have already taken some soundings. |
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The jetboat was then slipped to take soundings along a planned track to the proposed beach landing site. |
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The more rapid the drop in levels, the more frequent the soundings need to be. |
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In addition, the new analysis fits upper air soundings much better than the operational analysis. |
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In the Canadian Arctic, bathymetric information is of a reconnaissance nature supplemented by track soundings from ships. |
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He drew up an elaborate plan for Toronto Harbour, where he took out a row-boat and did all the soundings himself. |
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The BSB will take soundings about what the six banks and one building society that created it are already doing in this area. |
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Peaceful hideaways dotted invitingly throughout interrupted only occasionally by the splashes of a pair of swans and the melancholy soundings of the birds. |
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Perhaps BA should take soundings on what might pass scrutiny before it goes Dutch. |
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Mr. Hickman recalled Mr. Edwards calling late at night to take soundings on his inclination to stay positive. |
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I've taken soundings amongst the players, and while they acknowledge that the environment has changed, it's generally been a change they have welcomed. |
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Immediately after the grounding, the master instructed the crew to take soundings. |
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After sending out crew members in a small boat to take soundings around the grounded barge, the Salvor proceeded to reconnect to the barge. |
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If you are going to travel in a strange country, take soundings as a sailor does when entering a strange port. |
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If your boat has depth-finding equipment, take soundings to find the depth and match them to the depths shown on your charts. |
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We suggest that you take soundings with a 2,35 meters rod to assure that you will be able to install the length without destroying the marker. |
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Subsequent soundings indicated that the vessel was in contact with the bottom on the starboard side forward of the accommodation. |
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However, because of an accident involving their survey vessel, a private firm was hired to do the soundings. |
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A start has been made on informal soundings of the prospects in selected areas. |
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Because a record of tank soundings while deballasting was not kept in the deck log book, it was difficult to coordinate pumping of tanks. |
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In all but one winter there was some activity: cutting stones, providing timber, taking soundings and sinking mooring cribs through the ice. |
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Compare the Standard Atmosphere with actual soundings of the lower atmosphere. |
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Much of the data has been collected by random vessel's track soundings or over ice spot soundings. |
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The private contractor experienced difficulties performing the soundings and failed to complete its work. |
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He was the first person to chart the flow of the Gulf Stream, to conduct deep-sea soundings, and to imagine the potential of a transoceanic cable. |
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The Boundary Commission for England has been criss-crossing the towns and villages in the region, taking soundings before publishing draft recommendations in December. |
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For a minister taking soundings, home is a good place to start. |
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We took soundings, and commissioned independent economic research, and it suggested a very moderate and incremental approach to this protection measure. |
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He has no doubt spent the time delving into the condition of the markets, taking soundings from business executives and consulting with his counterparts from around the world. |
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Initial soundings among potential investors have gone so well that the company expects to list towards the upper end of the price range of between 140p to 180p a share. |
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The team sailed across the Chukchi Sea and recorded meteorological and astronomical data in addition to taking soundings of the seabed. |
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These points of no tide were confirmed by measurement in 1840 by Captain Hewett, RN, from careful soundings in the North Sea. |
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At daybreak, preceded by a small boat taking soundings, Maynard's two sloops entered the channel. |
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These advanced technology results will be correlated with conventional survey technologies including sidescan sonar, single beam soundings and shallow seismic profiling. |
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As a result of these soundings, the results of the Paris seminar and the Council's discussions on the French Presidency's draft Conclusions, the Commission had an overview of the question of the status of long-term residents. |
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Hydrographic soundings taken on the day of the occurrence recorded a depth of water greater than 12.9 m in the channel in the area of the grounding. |
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Our survey has essentially taken soundings of the first stream. |
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Modern soundings to 10,994 meters have since been found near the site of the Challenger's original sounding. |
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From informal soundings, it would nevertheless appear that this does not reflect any lack of interest in the International Criminal Court or in the Review Conference. |
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I suggest that we take soundings at the opening of business tomorrow morning to see if we can reconcile the different preferences that have been expressed here this afternoon. |
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Water near the coast and not too deep to be fathomed by a hand sounding line was referred to as in soundings or on soundings. |
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Members of Combined Operations Pilotage Parties clandestinely prepared detailed harbour maps, including depth soundings. |
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Depth soundings, water temperature studies, water samples, studies of marine life and atmospheric observations were conducted. |
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Since then he has failed to attend half the annual meetings of the South Pacific Forum, traditionally the place for the leaders of Australia and New Zealand to take soundings from around the region. |
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Al-Khelaifi tried unsuccessfully to take Wenger from Arsenal in the summer of 2011 and further soundings towards the end of last season once again failed to turn his head. |
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Al Khelaifi attempted unsuccessfully to lure Wenger from Arsenal in the summer of 2011 and further soundings were taken towards the end of last season, with Wenger insistent that he respects his contracts. |
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Disraeli was cautious in response, as careful soundings of MPs brought a negative reaction, and declined to place such a proposal in the Queen's Speech. |
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The area offshore beyond the 100 fathom line, too deep to be fathomed by a hand sounding line, was referred to as out of soundings or off soundings. |
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There is no data between soundings or between sounding lines to guarantee that there is not a hazard such as a wreck or a coral head waiting there to ruin a sailor's day. |
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It is a magisterial, doctiloquent guidebook, written with a care to ensure that readers never lose sight of its thesis or drift too far out of soundings. |
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This discontinuous set of data points was obtained by the simple technique of taking soundings by lowering long lines from the ship to the seabed. |
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