Newspapers were being founded and sinking all the time in Rio, then a small but expanding city.
Or the hitter in a baseball game trying to concentrate on making contact with a small sphere coming at him at over 90 miles per hour while prone to curving or sinking at any time, all while tuning out 40, 000 or so screaming, clapping fans trying to energize the pitcher.
Back from their half term break, peers waste no time in sinking their teeth into the Health and Social Care Bill.
Sinking ratings for prime-time TV have dogged it for a while.
The building is due to open in time for the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic in April 2012.
This afternoon, by contrast, the stock is sinking on yet another Bloomberg story, this time asserting that Clearwire has discussed restructuring options with Blackstone Group.
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Artistically speaking, this time he's really on a sinking ship.
Before James Cameron made a smash-hit mashup of Pocahontas and the Smurfs, he dabbled in other topics ranging from time-traveling robots to parasitic aliens and big, sinking boats.
Maryam Banikarim, an NBCUniversal senior vice president and former entrepreneur, became the first chief marketing officer of Gannett Co. at a time when the USA Today publisher's revenues were sinking, mainly due to declining advertising.
The bottom line here is that our standard of living is sinking like a stone and the income gap from top to bottom is at a all time high and the percentage of rate vs. actual dollars in revenues paid is far in favor of the higher income brackets than the average wage earner.
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Whatever the causes of the Princess Victoria sinking to a watery grave on that stormy Saturday afternoon in January 1953, the passing of time has not erased the sorrow felt by many, whose loved ones went down with the ship.
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