"any port in a storm" offers some guidance to seasick Asia punters these days.
Just announced are plans for a "cyberport" (see Heading for a Port in a Storm).
Meanwhile a post box in St Peter's Road is proving to be a port in a storm.
Nuestra Senora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon, sank in a storm off the Florida coast in 1622.
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Kayaking across San Francisco Bay at night in a storm, he says, teaches even the toughest executive to delegate responsibility.
When half of the ship was towed out to sea, it broke free in a storm and ran aground again.
The last one stood here for more than 30 years -- until we lost it in a storm earlier this year.
Investors have so few safeguards as it is, that any government agency looking out for them is a beacon in a storm.
In Franklin's own account of his experiment (published in 1752), a kite fashioned from a silk handkerchief is set aloft in a storm.
Their boat is caught up in a storm and is torn apart, stranding the castaways on the island to fend for their survival.
Even a small increase in sea level can mean a lot more flooding in a storm, and more frequent floods than in the past.
They need to persuade their skeptical Republican legislatures to pass bills endorsing their flips, and now they're searching for any legal alibi in a storm.
And let me tell you, in a storm like Hurricane Sandy, or in any kind of crisis, I want to be with people of action.
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In a storm, these raindrops can amass into a formidable force (to give you an idea, an average thunderstorm carries an estimated 1, 620 trillion raindrops).
Last year Simms' friend Captain Philip Ruhle Jr. went down with his 80-foot squid ship in a storm roughly 40 miles off the coast of New Jersey.
Mr. Brown and his wife said they had ridden out the tornado in a storm cellar, Iistening to the sound of screeching metal and smelling the odor of gas.
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Where British troops aim to expend no more bullets than is necessary, American troops, confident in their logistical support, aim to vaporise their foe in a storm of fire.
The oldest is the HMS Victory, which sank in a storm in 1744, and went to the bottom of the sea with as much as 100, 000 ounces of gold.
Last month, the PacX four got caught in a storm with 26-foot waves, winds up to 115 miles an hour, and pressure as low as the eye of a hurricane.
The Weather Channel said all of the people in the vehicle were able to walk away, and that it was the first time a network personality was injured in a storm.
While the apocalyptic view that we face an imminent inflationary depression may be reading too much into the tea leaves, relying on bad data is like flying blind in a storm.
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"A 40ft container of products fell from the deck in a storm in the Bay of Biscay bound for the Spanish Christmas market last month, " she told the BBC News website.
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Among the possibilities: Have astronauts wear a deployable shield resembling a heavy winter coat or have them hunker down in a storm shelter aboard the spacecraft during periods of high solar activity.
Oddly, Mr Ackroyd is most convincing when out among the hills and woods, just as the cockney Turner found his inspiration when strapped to the mast of a ship in a storm.
Some people were critical of Jessica's parents for encouraging their daughter to set the flying record and of the flight instructor's decision to take off in a storm that carried rain and snow.
Instead of joining the previous sample chapter, from the point of view of Theon Greyjoy, this new chapter, about Arianne Martell (a character mentioned in passing in A Storm of Swords but introduced in A Feast for Crows), replaces it altogether.
The Army Corps of Engineers informs me that while the levees are stronger than they've ever been, people across the Gulf Coast, especially in New Orleans, need to understand that in a storm of this size there is serious risk of significant flooding.
With the integrity of the eurozone, one of the three great economic areas, in some doubt, it is seriously discombobulating for banks, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurers and central banks that the safe harbour of US Treasury Bonds, US government debt, no longer looks quite the comforting refuge in a storm that it once was.
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