unseaworthy

• “Then, over the past two years, they've sunk a dozen emptied migrant boats they deemed "unseaworthy" - setting them ablaze and firing on them with their .50-caliber guns.”

  THE NEWS BLOG

• “If it turned out to be "unseaworthy" I should have to kick my heels in Napo for three or four weeks while a new one was being chopped out.”

  Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure

• “Also Tuesday, the U.N. refugee agency said Libyan authorities appeared to be encouraging African migrants to board unseaworthy boats bound for Europe.”

  USA Today: Libya's oil minister flees to Tunisia

• “On Tuesday, the U.N. refugee agency urged crews of ships in the Mediterranean to keep watch for unseaworthy vessels carrying migrants from Libya.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Libyan Officials Profit From Migrants

• “It says an increasing number of people are leaving in unseaworthy vessels and then encountering problems.”

  Voice of America: UN Ask Mariners to Aid Libyan Refugees in Mediterranean

• “In these, overloaded, unseaworthy, they battled down the long chain of lakes.”

  The Shrinkage of the Planet

• “Unlike much of the developed world, Australia avoided a recession last year, which has been cited by some would-be migrants as boosting the country's attractiveness as a destination, despite the riskiness of the sea voyage in often unseaworthy craft and cramped conditions.”

  The Wall Street Journal: On Some Asylum Requests

• “Unlike much of the developed world, Australia avoided a recession last year, which has been cited by some would-be migrants as boosting its attractiveness as a destination, despite the riskiness of the sea voyage in often unseaworthy craft and cramped conditions.”

  The Wall Street Journal: On Some Asylum Requests

• “Wainwright, the 1964 arrangement to seat black Mississippi delegates and to forbid discrimination at future Democratic conventions, the 1968 fair housing law, the legislative battles on behalf of children and the impoverished, the effort to strengthen the Carter administration's brief in the Bakke affirmative action case, the intervention to cause a reluctant United States and world to rescue Southeast Asian refugees on unseaworthy vessels, and so on.”

  The Huffington Post: Joel K. Goldstein: A Good Man's Good Fights

• “Elizabeth was still steering the only vessel available to her—one later revealed to be terribly unseaworthy—with all her might.”

  Simon & Schuster: Big Girls Don’t Cry

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