"The analogy we have is this is like turning around an ocean liner, " he said.
It's as if the enormous ocean liner of Revolutionary censorship was taking on water through every porthole.
Gibbs' obsession with creating the perfect ocean liner has now transformed into his granddaughter's obsession with saving it.
Even lovers gazing over the rail of an ocean liner were usually smoking.
All of this was bundled up in the cocoon of a bright-white ocean liner that provided a moving home base.
The ruins of the Bibi Khanum mosque (1399) rise up over the city like the hulk of a wrecked ocean liner.
The world has never seen their like:huge, lightweight vessels sporting lots of sail, plus all the comforts of an ocean liner.
But despite its streamline design, the shark-shaped ship travels at an average speed of just 7.5 knots -- about that of a large ocean liner.
The imagery of QE2 a huge ocean liner is both misleading and unfortunate.
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Romance at the captain's table on some swank ocean liner, champagne socialites dancing in speakeasies -- the boys knew all that stuff from picture shows.
The inevitable comparison to a huge ocean liner congers up images of draconian measures a monetary policy Hail Mary likely to accelerate inflation internally and debase the currency externally.
The original Titanic was the world's largest and most luxurious ocean liner when it hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank on April 15, 1912.
To design the museum he tapped Tadao Ando of Japan, whose dramatic 320, 000-square-foot building was to be shaped like a giant ocean liner topped by twin glass towers.
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Though the ocean liner had been scheduled to return Monday at 6 a.m. to Galveston, "as time went on we realized that they weren't going anywhere, " he said.
In February, he announced that construction will soon commence in a Chinese shipyard on a replica of the famously doomed ocean liner Titanic that could set sail in 2016.
The same goes for train travel and car travel but there is an exception for travel by boat: if you travel by ocean liner, cruise ship, or other form of luxury water transportation for business purposes, there is a daily limit on the amount you can deduct.
"Although 95 years have passed since the world's most famous luxury liner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, there continues to be an endless demand for information regarding Titanic - whether it be facts, legends or myths, " he said.
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