Today, however, middle-class shoppers around the world are not content to be marooned in mediocrity.
During that lengthy event, European airlines were required to pay meal and hotel bills for marooned passengers.
In the many reports of these marooned passengers, the general attitude seems to be: What can you do?
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More than 6, 000 people applied to be one of the eight men and eight women "marooned" on Pulau Tiga.
Beckham, by contrast, was marooned in a sea of naivety and relative mediocrity.
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Much of the violence in the past couple of weeks has focused on two streets, marooned in different ways.
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In October 2010, he told Desert Island Discs his ultimate luxury if marooned would be a large supply of smokes.
The new bill makes extensive changes to earlier versions, which have been marooned in the Senate for more than a year.
However, the old way will become progressively marooned as time goes on, not quickly, but over a period measured in years.
Jay was marooned between bases when Wright charged hard from third to make the tag and the ball bounced out of his glove.
Schemes to back small businesses, set up an infrastructure bank or offer assistance for firms that hire the long-term unemployed are all marooned.
The weekend before the voting there was a huge snowstorm, and the candidates and their operatives were marooned in hotel suites in Manchester, fidgeting.
Stein was once winched down 300 metres from the top to rescue an American climber marooned on a tiny shelf with a broken leg.
Provincial disaster official Raul Agustin told ABS-CBN television that marooned flood victims were often reluctant to leave for fear their homes would be looted.
Kate Hawkins from Manx National Heritage (MNH), the organisation behind the project, said there was always the chance of getting marooned, especially in the winter.
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Two other return attempts failed, leaving him marooned in Hong Kong.
Labour has previously said Mr Cameron's trip to Germany showed the prime minister was "marooned" between the demands of Tory backbenchers and what European leaders would accept.
There, mudslides and raging rivers swept away shantytowns perched on steep slopes of the lush Avila mountain and left tall buildings marooned in a sea of rock-hard debris.
Recently, a flock of plastic bags has caught in the spindly sycamore in front of their apartment, empty bags that inflate and deflate with the wind like marooned sailing ships.
"The star and her similarly marooned fellow cast members are all at the mercy of Rob Ashford, a director out of his depth, " wrote David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter.
One of the great things about fly fishing is that its practitioners, like me, are able to stay in touch with it even when we are homebound, marooned in trout-less urban landscapes.
Left to itself, the housing market should ensure that at least some of those who are now marooned in inner cities should be able to move to the suburbs, where land is cheaper.
Recently the Vatican tried to intervene on behalf of the general, who for the past few months has been marooned in Britain, awaiting a decision on legal matters arising from events in Chile.
Shackleton never lost a man in the Antarctic, despite being marooned there in 1915, because he understood his people, got them to make sacrifices for the common good, and earned their love and respect.
Rescue workers on rubber boats could not reach them because of narrow alleyways, and two air force helicopters were deployed to drop water and food packs to the marooned villagers, the Associated Press reports.
This surprising and, in my mind, distorted Western policy priority is all the more striking when some two dozen Third World leaders also in Paris, were left marooned outside the gates of the Summit discussions.
Many immigrants were marooned at the bottom end of the labour market, some in doomed industries such as textiles, cut off from their families and latterly relegated in government priorities, as they saw it, to a place below new European migrants.
Some would say a mosquito is worth one hundred trillion dollars (and if you were marooned alone on the moon, and suddenly a mosquito appeared, I believe that little guy would be worth all the galaxies in the universe, in terms of biological companionship).
The site has been under excavation since the late nineteenth century, so that all of its surviving monuments have been unearthed and to some extent restored, though its ancient harbor, the Lion Port, has long been silted up, leaving Miletus marooned miles from the sea.
For a long while Brugger is marooned there (his documentation has not come through, and in fairness to Liberia's authorities, it never does), and if he needs any reminder of what could go wrong, it all comes crashing home when one of his interviewees is assassinated.
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