From its harbours, Albuquerque's fleet brutally enforced the Portuguese monopoly of the spice trade. |
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Although there were only a limited number of estuarial harbours capable of sheltering a large fleet, successful landings were frequent. |
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The charioteers were crack units of specially-trained frogmen who sat astride a 30 ft-long torpedo which they steered into enemy harbours. |
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He watched departures from harbours, joined drovers crossing fords and muleteers breasting hills, embarked on ferries for no purpose. |
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The Rann of Kutch harbours unique, and now-endangered, native flora and fauna besides considerable agro-biodiversity. |
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A series of huge breakwaters and floodgates has been built to protect major harbours and installations. |
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Big conger inhabit a number of environments, including deep water rock marks, harbours, jetties, piers, breakwaters and the odd sandy beach! |
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Surface water harbours pathogens and the insect vectors of infectious diseases. |
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Talliun is in fact a group of four harbours, of which Muuga, the youngest, is intended to serve as the main bulk cargo handling centre. |
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Along the coast you'll also find a handful of quaint fishing harbours and some great seascapes. |
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Another 20 unknown contacts were countermined in harbours as the team responded to USN unmanned vehicle or marine mammal searches. |
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They acted as an anchorage for the stanchions which, standing on the seabed, supported the harbours. |
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Tom Thorn is a Victoria writer who harbours an unnatural obsession with sports obscurities. |
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I would be the only one fully clad on the jetboat as we wove in and out of the harbours along the Riviera. |
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Even in the depth of winter, Norway's ports and harbours are usually ice-free. |
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But while the novel undoubtedly harbours darker elements, its most successful mode is deadpan humour. |
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The coast offers good harbours and the coastal plains are fertile, yielding sugarcane, sweet potatoes, and maize. |
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How many harbours play host to everything from seahorses and frogfish to whales and dolphins? |
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For generations, fishermen have been leaving Nova Scotian harbours from the same wharves. |
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Any Haitian or Bahamian who harbours, employs, abets, or succors illegals, gets a fine and jail. |
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But he harbours an irrational and groundless suspicion that his newly-wed wife will have an affair. |
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There are sixty-one natural harbours, several landlocked straits, and hundreds of rivers, bays, and lakes. |
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One anachronism is the inclusion of twin diesel engines, for manoeuvring in harbours and avoiding conflicts in busy shipping lanes. |
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The firm harbours ambitions to build a major annual event around St Andrew's Day. |
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Proponents argue that genetic engineering harbours enormous potential benefits to farming and the food supply around the world. |
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He insists, not entirely convincingly, that he harbours no animus towards the First Minister. |
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The malicious site also harbours a secondary line of attack designed to dupe Windows users, reports Secure Computing. |
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Within two weeks the worst Channel storm of the 20th century nearly sabotaged the campaign, destroying one of the Mulberry harbours. |
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We've studied the foundations of temples, hippodromes and harbours and our task was to rebuild them from the ruins using the latest technology. |
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The marina harbours ships and yachts of the high and mighty as well as modest ones for the common man. |
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There is no loathing that any man harbours more intense than that towards his benefactors. |
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All around our coastline we have estuaries, docks, harbours, marshes and breakwaters. |
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Harbour dues from visiting liners are credited to the miscellaneous piers and harbours account. |
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Mini-oases of peace occur in harbours, sheltered from the torrential force of spring snowmelt. |
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And sure enough, so studiously edgy are the performances that one is never quite sure who harbours the darkest pathology. |
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This rich agricultural area, which was sprinkled with old Phoenician harbours, was well within the known world of the Mediterranean trading economy. |
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This is because they like to frequent the shallow waters of river estuaries and harbours, so often come into close proximity to man where there is poor visibility. |
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These bacteria form a living mat of intertwined filaments at the surface of the stromatolite, which also harbours numerous other types of micro-organisms. |
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Just offshore from the Stromsholmen centre lies the island of Kvitholmen, which harbours yet more facilities for divers who want a little more seclusion. |
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The cabbie often harbours the misconception that he is a racing driver and your heart will be in your mouth as you see him weave and twist in the traffic. |
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Ports, harbours and dockyards reanimated the scams of Pepys's day. |
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Like most girls, she harbours considerable maternal instincts. |
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The ferries, warships, water taxis, huge container vessels, yachts and fishing tinnies ply with impunity one of the greatest anchorages and working harbours in the world. |
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It will go to the Hutton Roof Crags nature reserve, which contains some of the finest limestone pavement in Britain, and also harbours a wealth of rare plants and animals. |
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Whilst the rugged northern coast absorbs a perennial battering from the sea, the southern shoreline is sheltered and calm, with sandy beaches and natural harbours. |
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He called for the provision of toilets on piers and harbours. |
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It just shows however that you might have to be more protective of the waters that go in and out of the bilges of ships as they come in and out of your harbours. |
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State-owned monopolies continued to control electricity and water supply, railways and harbours, broadcasting, air transport, and much steel production. |
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The area probably also harbours large unexplored oil resources. |
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Rats scurry along dark alleys, each filthy pavement and passage harbours disease, household waste is flung from windows and danger lurks on every corner. |
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His special felicity was in the depiction of moonlight, mist-gleam and rainshine, often in combination, on parkland, ship-rigged harbours and lamp-lit city streets. |
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Moreover, the logic of specialisation in the knowledge necessary to participate meaningfully in such speculative poetics harbours within it a repressed identity. |
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The Mormugao harbour on the mouth of the River Zuari is one of the best natural harbours in South Asia. |
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The main harbours of the island are Limassol and Larnaca, which service cargo, passenger and cruise ships. |
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Nowadays it's a lovely little place of pebble-covered cottages sloping up from the creekiest of harbours. |
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Invasive Japanese seaweed has spread along the shores of the sea clogging harbours and inlets and has become a nuisance. |
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The sea ice also harbours several species of algae that live in the bottom and inside unfrozen brine pockets in the ice. |
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These included amphitheatres, aqueducts, baths, bridges, circuses, dams, domes, harbours, and temples. |
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Dockyards of the Royal Navy are harbours where ships are overhauled and refitted. |
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Many more later died in Spain, or on hospital ships in Spanish harbours, from diseases contracted during the voyage. |
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The Battle of Britain began in early July with Luftwaffe attacks on shipping and harbours. |
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Kesselring, commanding Luftflotte 2, was ordered to send 50 sorties per night against London and attack eastern harbours in daylight. |
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Numerous bays along the indented coastline of the islands provide good harbours. |
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Each section harbours a ternary microformal pattern based upon its own thematic content. |
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Tacitus, for example, wrote in the 1st century that most of Ireland's harbours were known to the Romans through commerce. |
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Thirdly, they were to blockade imports, bombing harbours and stores of supplies. |
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The task force sank an Argentine cruiser, forcing the Argentine Navy back to its home harbours. |
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After the American Revolution, the Royal Navy began improving the harbours. |
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The archipelago's two main islands are separated by the Falkland Sound, and its deep coastal indentations form natural harbours. |
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The territory's main international ports and harbours are on Grand Turk and Providenciales. |
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Public services, such as water, wastewater, the two main harbours and the airport are still owned and controlled by the States of Guernsey. |
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The Agency is in charge of inland rivers, estuaries and harbours in England. |
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Early inhabitants of Wales gave names first to noteworthy natural features, such as rivers, hills, mountains, harbours and shores. |
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Many of the towns and villages along the coast have small harbours and facilities for sailing, dolphin watching and other maritime activities. |
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The ability of submarines to approach enemy harbours covertly led to their use as minelayers. |
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The creation of ports and harbours throughout the world can seriously impact on the natural course of longshore drift. |
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Not only do ports and harbours pose a threat to longshore drift in the short term, they also pose a threat to shoreline evolution. |
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Attack from the sea caused many coastal towns and their harbours to be abandoned. |
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Other harbours were lost due to natural causes such as rapid silting, shoreline advance or retreat, etc. |
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An exception is the brown noddy, which sometimes harbours protozoa of that genus. |
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Ships that had successfully run the gauntlet of the Atlantic crossing were sometimes destroyed entering freshly cleared British harbours. |
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The British Royal Navy ships needed assistance after the docks, harbours and piers were bombed by the Germans. |
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A lock keeps the tide out of the canal and lets large ships navigate up the canal to Caen's freshwater harbours. |
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On 28 June 1940, they sent a squadron of bombers over the islands and bombed the harbours of Guernsey and Jersey. |
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In winter it is more coastal, often feeding in estuaries or harbours and along rocky seashores. |
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Eventually, because the act of pilotage needed to be regulated and to ensure that pilots had adequate insurance, the harbours licensed pilots. |
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Tourists could now make full use of the whole seafront between Penzance and Newlyn harbours. |
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The British were able to keep an almost constant force poised outside French harbours. |
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A former river valley flooded by rising sea levels 6,000 years ago, Poole Harbour is one of the largest natural harbours in the world. |
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The historic record as well as the remains of harbours, ships and cargoes, testify to the volume of trade that crossed it. |
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Nautical remains include early harbours and places where ships were built or repaired. |
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Some bought up large amounts of the rich agricultural land, others organised the exploitation and modernisation of mines and harbours. |
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During that period, smaller ships could use more of the coastline as harbours than in the present era. |
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Unlike other harbours, reaching the port of Seville required sailing about 80 Km up the river Guadalquivir. |
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The water along to coast of Muscat runs deep, forming two natural harbours, in Muttrah and Muscat. |
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The peninsula harbours an extraordinary biodiversity, with more than 700 vertebrate land animal species of which 40 are endemic. |
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Later, however, French forces blockaded the harbours, forcing the government to give in and let French troops enter the city. |
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The overpowering strength of the British fleet enabled it to occupy the Chesapeake and to attack and destroy numerous docks and harbours. |
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In the 19th Century, the peak of the fishing industry, saw the distinctive cobles heading out from bustling harbours. |
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However, this image harbours the danger of an emanationist view of creation. |
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Despite universal campaigns to end the crime, every day we still hear about pangolins, elephant tusks, and even live geckos seized in airports and harbours. |
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The tiny, horseshoe island, built with a military fort in mind, now harbours hundreds of sea creatures including leatherjacket, Morwong, blue devilfish and stingarees. |
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The KJV harbours a multitude of qualities that turn writing into art. |
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The effects of the large scale of early tin streaming were felt on the coast, as several harbours silted up due to the amount of fine material that was washed down the rivers. |
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Overseas, Halcrow led the company to work on a wide range of engineering projects, from roads, bridges and harbours in Ghana, Libya and Mozambique to dams in Venezuela. |
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They inhabit fjords, bays, estuaries and harbours, hence their name. |
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The construction of a new port was urgently needed in order to replace the ancient harbours of Honfleur and Harfleur, whose utility had decreased due to silting. |
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In 1535, Portuguese traders obtained the rights to anchor ships in Macau's harbours and to carry out trading activities, though not the right to stay onshore. |
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Its geographic location and deep harbours made it of great strategic importance from the time of the ancient Silk Road through to the modern Maritime Silk Road. |
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Many of the islands in the Aegean have safe harbours and bays. |
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Over several centuries, a series of castles and forts was constructed along the coast of the Solent to defend the harbours at Southampton and Portsmouth. |
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Television pictures showed the after-effects of the pyroclastic flow, which had cascaded down the mountainside towards one of the island's harbours. |
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With natural harbours often backed by lagoons, it provided a haven for guerrilla warfare, such as attacks on shipping vessels venturing through their territory. |
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There are several ports and harbours around the Arctic Ocean. |
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The use of dredging and nets was effective against this type of mine, but this consumed valuable time and resources, and required harbours to be closed. |
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Offensive mines are placed in enemy waters, outside harbours and across important shipping routes with the aim of sinking both merchant and military vessels. |
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The German High Seas Fleet remained largely in safe harbours on the north German coast while the British Grand Fleet remained in the northern North Sea. |
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The larger ships would naturally be more expensive, but also would require enlargement of harbours, locks and the Kiel canal, all of which would be enormously expensive. |
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It is indented by seven or eight bays forming natural harbours. |
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About 40 tourist harbours are located along the Sardinian coasts. |
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Intertidal archaeological surveys in recent years have brought hundreds of sites to light, including fish traps, tidal mills, kelp walls and harbours and landing places. |
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To compensate for the changing tides, adjustable ramps were positioned at the harbours and the gantry structure height was varied by moving it along the slipway. |
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There are small harbours at Lynmouth, Porlock Weir and Combe Martin. |
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The North Sea coasts are home to numerous canals and canal systems to facilitate traffic between and among rivers, artificial harbours, and the sea. |
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