The official said U.S. or allied personnel wouldn't board the ship by force and would search the ship only with the permission of its crew.

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Additionally, this will apparently force the company to ship these larger factory yields via sea transport rather than air, which also slows things down.

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If Lord had been given to large interpretations, he might have seen in the one ship a symbol of the urgent force of human striving and, in the other, the immovable resistance of sheer stupidity.

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She also has accommodation for an embarked military force as well as the normal ship's company.

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Expensive maintenance may force the owners to sell the historic ship for scrap metal, unless a solution can be found.

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Already the military services have curtailed flight and combat training for many units, grounded some Air Force squadrons and delayed or canceled some ship deployments.

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The ship would also harness wave energy, which is normally the force slowing down ships.

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At certain moments the air streamed against the ship as if sucked through a tunnel with a concentrated solid force of impact that seemed to lift her clean out of the water and keep her up for an instant with only a quiver running through her from end to end.

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The Foreign Affairs Select Committee, which has recommended that that the government should review how it handles the kidnap of British nationals abroad, said there was limited guidance on the use of lethal force against pirates trying to ambush vessels, and that ship captains were left in a difficult position trying to decide what action to take.

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