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We have obtained data regarding the enemy's offshore oil field facility from the wreck of a fuel tanker sunk at the time of attack.

With his head sunk down between his shoulders, and a hideous grin over spreading his face, the dwarf stoop up .

The stock market bubble has burst and, despite signs of economic recovery, Wall Street seems to be sunk in gloom.

The ship would have sunk with all the passengers on it, if the captain had not made the efforts.

In the ships sunk by the enemy, Jack led the rest of the staff drifting on a desert island, and finally rescued.

Just how much has already sunk and what portion is still floating is unknown.

After the ship is sunk, the go-go dancer will be returned to her pad and lowered back where she was until the next performance is needed.

The moment when you decide to keep silence is the beginning to calculate the sunk cost.

It is as if her soul has sunk to the bottom of the sea where her beloved now lies.

But she let herself give in to what her body commanded, sunk underneath the surface, and let her eyes close for good.

If dippers with bottoms in them had been given them, the sailors said, the boat would have been sunk.

the wind had sunk , black storm - clouds hung low over the battlefield , melting on the horizon into the clouds of smoke from the powder.

He sunk his teeth into the crocodile's nose, one of the few soft places on th reptile's body, and it let go of him.

His shoulder, sunk in an old military jacket, rested against the wall and a radio antenna stuck out of his pocket.

The violet and purple sunset rays were growing dimmer, the light of the sun having already more than half sunk in the reflecting water.

When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help. Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat.

I look up to the sky, as if sunk-in kite to the blue sky studded with flowers.

But some lawmakers argue that he said the same after the Cheonan warship was sunk.

The dew of the morning Sunk chill on my brow- It felt like the warning Of what I feel now.

Her left ear had sunk into the flesh on the side of her skull, and her head was almost completely without hair.

Most of sub-Saharan Africa seems to be sunk in a perpetual drought that has fed a numbing series of civil wars.

One day, having a cold, he took to picking up the glass inkwell that was sunk in his desk top and quietly clearing this throat into it.

The view all around me was like that of a garden that had sunk into a lunar crater.

"The vessel appeared to have been deliberately sunk, " authorities said in their probable cause affidavit.

It was the second time that the K21 had been sunk since the vehicle entered service last November after 10 years of development.

No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, than I was answered by a voice from within the tomb!

Contrary to the usual course of things, Mr. Elton's wanting to pay his addresses to her had sunk him in her opinion.

His wife had sunk back on the bed near the fireplace, with a face indicative of astonishment.

I sat silently for about 10 minutes as the power of it sunk in. I really felt the weight of the situation and of my life wash over me.

'It's the gains of the economic progress of the last generation which is now being sunk underwater, ' he said.

Blackbeard began to charge ships a toll to pass through his area safely. If the ship would not pay, it was sunk.

He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him.

French business confidence, which had briefly flowered, wilted as well; and Italian firms have sunk further into gloom.

Sunk in the misery of my eleventh broken heart (I'm a bit of a slow learner), it took me a while to wrap my head around it.

Both Injun Joe and the treasure sunk into secondary importance for a moment, and Becky took the chief place in the boy's interest.

A ship carrying people suspected of trying to enter Europe illegally has sunk near the southern coast of Turkey.

Right down at the end of the street there was a spring under a birch tree and there had been a barrel sunk in the ground.

A day after the General Hoyt S. Vandenberg was sunk, a diver descended to inspect the ship, which landed perfectly upright.

It seemed to her that she awoke in the same room and saw the fire, sunk low and red, and in the firelight the great wooden horse.

They did not get wet because airtight caissons (watertight structures) were sunk under the water giving the men a dry place to work.

Though unarmed, the ship was carrying munitions for the Allies, and the Germans had circulated warnings that the ship would be sunk.

In an upstairs alcove, a tiled fireplace with fitted seats is sunk into a wall, a homely architectural fitting, emanating kindness and love.

The rest of his head has sunk into the white silk pillow.

But lingering questions about what might have sunk the seemingly indestructible ship never completely disappeared.

Built on wooden pilings sunk in the ooze of a backwater lagoon, Venice rose over a millennium to become a city-state of dazzling power.

It filled the whole damp hut with flickering light and Harry felt the warmth wash over him as though he'd sunk into a hot bath.

In the next room was the man, his chin sunk in the open collar of his favorite wool shirt.

Before Jacob could do more than sit up, his wife had stepped forward and sunk her hands into his forehead.

It's not clear if it was buried on the island or if the soldiers merely just sunk it in a specific area.

I could still remember Rose said "I trust you" whether the ship had sunk or not.

When the news came that the ship had sunk, she was deeply agitated until she learnt that her husband was saved.

Officials say they believe the vessel may have been sunk by the mafia to make money out of the waste disposal industry.

Only the tips of the car wheels were visible, police said last night. The vehicle had sunk into two feet of mud at the bottom of the ditch.

We're not going to see our precious bombers or battleships being sunk by those occasional nasty little transports.

Her voice had sunk almost to a whisper, and she sat clasping and unclasping her hands about the handle of her sunshade.

If so, no one would be aware that she had sunk until she became overdue.

It hasn't really sunk in to be honest. . . you don't make things like this to win prizes, you do it to satisfy yourself.

She also swam towards the sun; but it sunk into the waves, and the rosy tints faded from the clouds and from the sea.

Forgotten past. Time sunk in darkness. Deep down in murky water , I touch the soul that has wandered in eternity .

Obama's approval rating in public opinion polls has recently sunk to its lowest point of his presidency.

Recent public opinion polls show that Obama's job approval rating has sunk to about 44 percent, one of the lowest rates of his presidency.

maternal feeling as if the fetus to be falling, this is the maternal pelvis, fetal head was sunk.

BBC film crews recorded the brinicle for the first time ever as it sunk to the bottom of the sea in Antarctica.

What they had in fact found was a ship which had been sunk many years before.

Standing beside us on the edge of that cliff grew a big white oak tree, with its roots sunk deep down into the rock.

One silly aircraft carrier that could be sunk in two seconds with a battery of chinese surface to surface missiles.

What the crew in fact found was a ship which had been sunk many years before.

Sterner had sunk in on himself like an empty gasbag, and no efforts were sufficient to inflate him.

She sunk four ships despite at least eight torpedo failures, and earned her second Presidential Unit Citation.

Stocks in London and Europe have sunk nearly 20 per cent, while Japan has lost a quarter of its value.

One of my friends admitted that he's sunk thousands of dollars into online videogames.

As the war against the hyacinth heightened, it also sunk and joined several other dead plants that had decayed.

Defeat of the Poles had seemed at times certain. Their army had been battered and its moral sunk, but yet stood fast.

Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy .

The sun had just sunk below the horizon, and a gentle breeze caressed one's face .

Japanese radio reported four times that the Lady Lex had been sunk. But she kept on fighting.

Severed from its West Bank feeder towns, Ramallah and Bethlehem, Arab East Jerusalem at night feels like a ghost-town sunk in neglect.

She said some tong qi have sunk into severe depression because of their husbands' refusal or inability to have sex with them.

"If I couldn't picture them, I'd be sunk, " he said.

However computer learns no good and has sunk into a porn vendor, which is its own fault, no one could offer help.

The enemy planes blasted the port until all the boats were sunk.

Danes fear that without the krone they might have sunk into an Irish quagmire .

the ship would have sunk with all on board but for the effort of the captain .

The ship would have sunk with all on board but for the efforts of the captain.

The truth that proliferating trade disputes ends up hurting everybody appears to have sunk in.

Their whale ship had been sunk by an enormous sperm whale.

and the ship would have sunk with all board had it not been for the captain.

The president has sunk so far in public esteem that many praise his decision but doubt his motives.

Production cost, transaction cost and sunk cost can be used to explain the economic rationality of enterprises' outsourcing.

When the sea backwashes up the rivers, drainage is inhibited, and land that has sunk pools the water, preventing drainage.

Paul Ryan, a bright young congressman from Wisconsin, has a plan to restore the budget to balance; it has sunk without a trace.

Finally, fish with deep sorrow, sunk underwater, and that was the bird sad split away from the waters .

In politics, however, sunk costs are often seen as political capital or as an investment of reputation and status.

He motioned to the memorial, which sits over the remains of the battleship sunk by the Japanese in the Pearl Harbor attack.

By the 21st, with too many ships sunk and damaged, the Germans call off the attacks and Riga is saved from bombardment from the sea.

These milestones of human progress occur in the midst of a society sunk in a statistically proven barbarism.

In March 1943 before the Allied convoy were all of the North Atlantic German submarine position, half of the attack, one-fifth was sunk.

It still hasn't really sunk in now that I could be playing in the Premier League week in and week out. It's unreal.

"Help" said the princess, who had sunk into the sticky, icky mud in the moat.

The ship was sunk by an enemy torpedo.

In 1937, in the beginning of the Japanese invasion, it was sunk in the Huangpu harbor to prevent enemy ships from entering.

She was taken in tow and sailed on for 12 years until she was loaded with cheap boots and cat food and sunk in an insurance scam.

Although it was a big ship but it sunk. So the best ship is still my friendship!

Your judgment has been clouded by the sunk-cost fallacy: you hoped to get a master's degree, great food and an Italian paramour.

Thousands of wrecks from medieval ships to warships sunk during the world wars of the 20th century have been found in the Baltic Sea.

The prince smiled to the princess, and sadly the little mermaid sunk into the sea.

And the Soul stood on the lonely beach and watched them. And when they had sunk down into the sea, it went weeping away over the marshes.

A boat carrying more than 250 illegal migrants heading for Europe is reported to have sunk off the Libyan coast.

And we almost sunk the ship , but I became enraptured with mounting expeditions .

Those caverns had been sunk in the swampy ground at great cost, for the security of the Empire.

I had a feeling I had been told something really important, but it took many years before it sunk in.

We seem to have sunk to a kind ofplayground system of forming contracts.

When finally the basin of water has sunk from the bowl to the cistern pipes, where does the form of the whirlpool go?

Do you think your people will go for sending out American warships to be sunk by U-boats ?

By calculating average tonnage sunk per day, BdU could measure sinking efficiency and the effectiveness of a campaign.

For the moment Spain has only just sunk into outright price deflation.

This species can be recognized by its elongate, narrow panicle of small, pointed, long-awned spikelets sunk among copious long hairs.

But for the captain, the ship would have sunk with all on board.

Japanese industrial production has sunk to a level not seen in two decades. And in Britain manufacturers are at their gloomiest since 1980.

Neville's foot had sunk right through a step halfway up the staircase.

While China's economy has roared on magnificently, the United States has sunk inexorably into the mire.

Muffat had again sunk down on the chair; he was overwhelmed by these home thrusts.

Oh, God. And then we just sort of sunk into it.

Floating docks are structures of iron or concrete which are sunk deep enough in the water to enable a ship to be placed over them.

The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine during the First World War.

From what my sources tell me, the talks seem stalled or at the very least to have sunk to a very low level.

The lesson of inflation had not sunk in.

During the second world war, a steamer carrying Indian Sepoys was bombed by the Japanese and was sunk.

In recent months the government claims to have sunk three of these ships, laden with guns bought in Indonesia.

Japanese automakers and electronics companies have seen the currency shift eat into their corporate profits as the dollar has sunk.

In this particular tin-pot venture he'd sunk half the sum left him by his father.

When the island had almost sunk, Love decide to ask for help.

He pointed first to the apron, and then to the spot where the child had sunk.

The opposite hemisphere would sunk into permanent, icy darkness, and the land would resemble frozen tundra.

LEE MYUNG-BAK, South Korea's president, has shown impressive restraint since the Cheonan, a South Korean warship, was sunk on March 26th.

one undersea ridge south of the Nicobars was once, he suspects, a piece of Sumatra that sunk in the distant past.

When you say these words, I knew that we have a wall to be cut off we, when you say "are" , my entire heart has sunk down.

After Ireland showed how a sovereign can be sunk by its banks, similarly vulnerable countries make markets nervous.

The wild boar had its tusk sunk deeply into a tree and howled desperately.

Of course, changes in the real-world power and transportation industries will have to overcome sunk investments in existing infrastructure.

A commonly used type of key has a square cross section and is sunk half in the shaft and half in the hub of the other member.

The ship was sunk at once stroke and was seen no moe.

Japanese industrial production has sunk to a level not seen in two decades.

J-Power shares have sunk by one-third over the past year (in line with the Tokyo market as a whole).

Without developing country leadership, we'd all be sunk (literally, in the case of Vanuatu).

If there is no obvious semantic clue in the radical, and no helpful phonetic component somewhere in the character, you're just sunk.

The sun had already sunk below the horizon.

Last December, after having sunk 50% of his savings into the property, he was forced to sell.

Fishing others are lured with scented bait fish bait, but the great-grandfather never hang bait, nor the rod sunk underwater.

The pound has sunk to its lowest recorded level against the dollar.

The article introduces the overall design of integrate simulating experimental platform of large-sized sunk shield tunneling machine.

The wind has suddenly sunk down .

In villages where irrigation is communal a new well can shift power to the owner of the land where it is sunk.

South Korean defence ministry officials have suggested the North could have sunk its warship, the Cheonan, last month.

Sunk costs are what you've spent into an item, which makes it feel like you are losing out if you don't recoup what you spent on the item.

Dust blown to heaven is still dust. Gold sunk in the sea is still gold.

Some wrecks have sunk deeper than others. Most readers will have a vague idea about Prussia (or Borussia as he calls it).

Inflorescence with broad foliaceous axis, spikelets not sunk in axis cavities; lower lemma herbaceous, upper lemma coriaceous.

I thought that if the scar were a little bit bigger the vessel would have sunk.

This has sunk in so much that sometimes I'll find myself paralyzed in social situations.

If the bank forecloses on us, we're sunk.

Britain's balance of trade has sunk deeper and deeper into the red over the past decade as consumption has outstripped production.

The letter outlines an international probe team's findings that the warship "Cheonan" was sunk by a torpedo attack from the DPRK.

Earth Observatory, a NASA function, admitted that by comparing images from the year before, Pakistan's elevation has sunk.

Activity often results in psychological 'sunk costs' that make persistence of attention in the same direction advantageous.

But transport remains expensive and settlements themselves are often sunk in mud.

Another part would specifically help people with dwellings whose market value has sunk below the principal still owed on the mortgages.

It appears, however, that the Bismarck was not sunk by gunfire, and she will now be dispatched by torpedo .

British merchant cruiser had been sunk by German battle cruisers.

It just sunk below the surface.

March of this year, South Korea, "Tian" warship sunk in its waters are of 46 soldiers killed in ship.

The Su cripple snow subconscious turns round and runs, but a be sunk to eliminate to drag.

Soviet Russia's farm sector had sunk to such depths that a traditional grain exporter was now importing grain from Australia and America.

the double-barrel was observed within the dissection area and the low density intimal flap sunk to the lumen.

More test wells have been sunk since the finding.

In 1820, after 15 months at sea, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale.

e. g. I think the lesson has sunk in, he would not make the same mistake again.

A moat, walled ditch, or hedge sunk in the ground to serve AS a fence without impairing the view or scenic appeal.

The basic economics of natural monopoly emphasise two main phrases: "sunk costs" and "contestability" .

The news was such a shock, it still hasn't really sunk in yet.

But at other moments you will find him gentle and weak, as when he cries about the lost lives of people drowned in ships that have sunk.

If South Korea is correct, this is only the third time a submarine has sunk a warship in combat since the second world war.

Hurricane Ike had sunk at least 11 offshore platforms, according to the Coast Guard.

Adding a new dimension to my life show, meanwhile, the actress is sunk in the agony of indecision.

The ovary appears to have sunk into and fused with the cup-shaped receptacle.

All were much thinner than the previous month, with eyes sunk in their sockets, throats rasping and hoarse. But everyone was excited, happy.

The fact that so many homeowners are sunk in negative equity will also constrain mobility.

But when they tried to wash off there stripes they found that the paint had sunk in well beyond there fur.

The ship was sunk by a nuclear submarine.

A shaft sunk inside a tunnel is called a winze.

They didn't even admit until 1979 that it was a Japanese submarine which sunk the hospital ship.

Then the banks that have sunk capital into American homes would slip deeper into trouble.

To my joy, the ball lied 2 or 3 yards straight in front of the flagstick , rolled upwards and sunk in the hole.

There are reports that at least one boat has sunk in the crossing.

Both have sunk enormous sums of their own money into buying players and modernising their clubs' infrastructure.

Cap-and-trade initiatives in Washington started much earlier, but have sunk in Congressional quicksand.

He has sunk half of his fortune in a new business undertaking.

In Germany the Ifo index, a gauge of business confidence, has sunk to a five-year trough.

Costs to build are for new systems, those for existing systems should be considered as sunk.

He had heard from some old men before, that several ships loaded with diamonds and gold had once sunk in the nearby seashore.

A huge new 20-mile sewer sunk deep beneath London to stop waste from entering the River Thames has moved closer to reality.

I know the one year is a sunk cost, but I'm reluctant to give up so easily on such a nice man.

The destroyer is reported to have been sunk .

A month after the first deployment of K21s, one of them was sunk during a river-crossing training exercise south of Seoul.

When Europe had sunk to the level of sewer, America became the golden dream, the Eden where innocence could be recovered .

Of which mixing silo is welded by the steel, a layer of antifriction cast iron scale boards is embedded in the medial wall with sunk screws.

The SS Jassim, a Bolivian cargo ferry, ran aground and sunk on the Wingate Reef off the coast of Sudan in 2003.

Well, what if you already knew that your battleship had sunk, but had to guess who sank it?

What an honor it is for a politician to give a TED talk, especially when the reputation of government has sunk so low.

Inter-Korean relations have been extremely tense since 46 South Koreans died when their warship was sunk last March.

During the battle HMAS Perth was sunk and Hobart was damaged before proceeding to Ceylon.

Make sure that you lift the fishing rod when the whole flat has sunk. I'm sure a fish will greet you on the hook.

The ship was sunk in a hurricane.

An Indian frigate sunk a pirate vessel on Tuesday night after the pirates threatened to attack, the navy said yesterday.

Confidence in the world economy has sunk to a new level reflected in the plunging price of oil and shares.

Simon's ( 1947 ) answer is , first , that there are both economic and psychological 'sunk costs' that make rapid adjustment unprofitable .

This is one reason why the rupee has not sunk further, and why the central bank's reserves still cover six months' worth of imports.

But Egypt has been building an iron barrier, sunk deep into the sandy soil, to thwart this subterranean traffic.

Spikelets sunk in cavities of rachis; rachis fragile; inflorescence a single bilateral raceme.

Since then, several other recently floated companies have sunk below their offer prices.

She had quit everything concerning her past as sunk cost.

On February 15, 1898, a mysterious explosion sunk the U. S. S. Maine, an American battleship that was in the harbor of Havana, Cuba.

The battle resulted in one South Vietnamese corvette being sunk, and another heavily damaged.

Economies of Scale and Scope, Sunk Costs, Barriers to Entry and Unbundled Network Elements.

Costs are categorized as incremental cost and sunk cost for the sake of decision making.

The result: by 2002 the average fuel efficiency of US passenger vehicles had sunk to its lowest level since 1980.

The 25-year old man said that after his karbass had sunk during a heavy storm, he found himself on a tiny desert island.

I counted four battleships definitely sunk, three severely damaged.

Those in bondage are sunk in worldliness and forgetful of God. Not even by mistake do they think of God.

In the theory of neoclassical economics, sunk cost is the irrelative cost.

By contrast, rich nations suffer from deep sunk costs and entrenched vested interests.

Now they build dugouts and bunkers, using cargo containers sunk into the ground.

As stocks have risen, the dollar has sunk against most of its major rivals.

The warnings of the teacher and the parents have sunk in his mind .

The lesson has sunk in and he won't make the same mistake again.

"Reina" was once sunk, may result in New Zealand for decades the most serious marine pollution disaster.

China has also sunk billions into oil exploration in Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.

she had sunk into unconsciousness.

Other scientists hooked up wires to measure frowns and smiles before the meaning of the ads' words sunk in.

Lusitania: British ocean liner sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.

I await to all know Huang the adult be sunk by the Wu, but hard put is agreeable.

Paralysed by some spider that had crept into those teeny-tiny shorts and sunk its fangs into him.

The ship was intentionally sunk in 1987 off Key Largo to create an artificial reef 120 feet deep.

At sea, ships have been nearly sunk by tornadoes dropping water on them.

Indeed, the Pan-German Party had sunk to a level of almost complete insignificance.

So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters.

These strange diversifications could have damaged or even sunk the entire company.

The television doesn't dominate the suite but is sunk into the wall in front of the bed.

McDonald said that timber crisps and houses were sunk into the ground to create piers and cliffs.

Many ships have sunk into the waters of the Bermuda Triangle.