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Nevertheless, the feeling I insist upon having is hope—the chance of righting this sinking ship before it is too late.

One time he stood on the dock of a ship and sunk the ship just to feel what it was like to be on a sinking ship.

The morning also served as a welcoming party for new CEO Hubert Joly, the Frenchman brought in Monday to right the sinking ship.

Too many liberals focus exclusively on fairness; as if everyone drowning in a sinking ship would be okay.

Not even a classic Williams 11th-hour resurgence in the third set was enough to save the sinking ship.

Ney and Marmont did not accompany the other Commissioners with their sorrowful terms; like rats they left the sinking ship.

It is difficult to account for so many of the lifeboats being sent from the sinking ship, in a smooth sea, far from full.

But what is precisely the difference between shaving in a sinking ship and smoking in a powder magazine?

When they thought I was done for, the rats forsook the sinking ship.

They have no compass, that having been forgotten in their scramble out of the sinking ship.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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