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Hostages to the future and in sense my only sheet anchor.

They released a sheet anchor, which held for two hours, when the ship again began to drive towards shore.

"Perhaps if we let the starboard sheet anchor down as a counterweight?"

The euro must become a catalyst and a sheet anchor for the continuing unification of Europe.

The only sheet anchor I had ever had.

"She was the sheet anchor of his morality and the visionary spirit behind his highest political ideals."

The remaining wickets added only another 57, though Nurse - the sheet anchor - battled away until he was ninth out for 70.

I suppose I was really throwing out a sheet anchor of my own to be sure no one expected me to perform miracles."

And when the last of the wine was gone we fell back on an ample supply of the sailor's sheet anchor - grog.

You can be the Carol Jordan benchmark, you can be my sheet anchor.

Lady Swarland is our sheet anchor; she helps us out each year with a subscription to put us on our feet again.

It was the perfect academic discipline gained in his early life, the sheet anchor of his artistic credo, which facilitated these easy renderings.

Indeed, he was reflecting as he walked in the dusk, Mrs. Spaniel was now his sheet anchor.

Ramage searched his memory: 'The sheet anchor?'

They instinctively rallied to uphold Law, the slow product of centuries of growth, the sheet anchor of Society in a time of change.

Hair streaming in the wind, cloak ballooning behind her like a sheet anchor, she let the two--wheeled juggernaut accelerate ponderously through the warm air.

At stud his other progeny included the Grand National winner Lottery and the influential stallion Sheet Anchor.

The advantage of the euro, as a sheet anchor and reserve currency, will be partly the guarantee it offers of stability and improved performance by European industry.

Like Lord and other early Sydney entrepreneurs, Kable always had a substantial landholding as a kind of 'sheet anchor'.

The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor, Dover Maritime Books, p.25.

Kamil Zvelebil, even while acknowledging the fragility of the synchronism, called it the "sheet anchor" of the dating of Tamil literature.

Thus Piping Lane became only the third Tasmanian bred horse to win the Melbourne Cup after Malua and Sheet Anchor.

The Queen, however, was notably warm towards Lee in her speeches, describing him as one of the Commonwealth's "sturdiest sheet anchors, prudent in counsel and wise in judgment".

The Moscito is the brainchild of Paul Marston and Stephen Burgess, who have frequently been the sheet anchor of Australian teams.

So the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, assured Cecil that the League remained 'the sheet anchor of British policy' and a policy of economic sanctions was adopted.