Migrants rescued from an inflatable raft.

All the people on the raft began to panic.

The longer they wait, the more the raft gains speed.

Preemption by Gazprom has been accomplished through a raft of acquisitions.

The eurozone s leaders are on a raft heading towards a life threatening waterfall.

An inflatable raft full of refuge seekers on its way to Lesvos, Greece.

A professionally constructed solution pump airlift operation that incorporates a lengthy pontoon raft and divers

After that they brought the raft to the beach and rearranged us until we could all fit inside.

Clinton has created a raft of new positions at the State Department to spur outreach to different social segments.

'Anybody up on that raft with you?' Huck says, 'Yeah.' 'Is he black or white?' 'White.' And they go off.

In India, for example, increasing productivity and long term growth require fiscal discipline and a raft of financial and labor market reforms.

A bundle of logs lashed together in a raft even if it lacks a rudder has a clear advantage over a single storm tossed trunk.

At long last, China s senior leadership has endorsed a raft of reforms that could impel the economy s shift from reliance on exports to consumption led growth.

In recent days, the authorities have also requested businesses to stagger the working day before, during, and after the Games to reduce traffic volumes, alongside a raft of other traffic cutting measures.

A raft of populist policies underpinned his first four year government, from rural debt suspension and cheap universal healthcare to handing out 25,000 to each of 77,000 villages for entrepreneurial start up funds.

In their own defense, eurozone ministers point to the raft of reforms that they have introduced over the past 30 months, which will promote economic modernization, the restoration of sound government finances, and closer economic coordination.

And Israel s continuing settlement construction on the West Bank has sharpened their sense that negotiations would not be productive, whereas the raft of UN resolutions supporting a two state solution could now be put to the test.

Using the same type of equipment as scuba diving, the diver breathes from compressed air cylinders, which float on a free floating raft at the surface, allowing the diver only 20 30 feet (6 9 m) of depth to travel.

So the outcome no longer depends only on their willingness to cooperate in order to navigate the raft to safety. It also hinges on their ability to do so in the midst of natural forces that are increasingly difficult to control and overcome.

Ever since Huck Finn took his friends down the Mississippi River on a raft, American men have created and consumed fantasies of setting out with their males friends for parts unknown, or of traveling in an all male group to have adventures closer to home.

For the past seven years, Nabil Musa has been traveling often times on a paddle board or in a raft around the Kurdistan region of Iraq on a one man mission to promote the importance of clean waterways for the current and future generations.

Stock markets have been falling most days, money markets and credit markets have shut down as their interest rate spreads skyrocket, and it is still too early to tell whether the raft of measures adopted by the United States and Europe will stem the bleeding on a sustained basis.

Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you'll live and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well being? Prepare to flex a few facial muscles as you learn more about this evolutionarily contagious behavior.