#container

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties. ↗

— Kurt Student

#another #british #casualties #containers #contributed

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#cannot #container #department #detection #devices

You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#boxes #containers #controlled #covered #each

In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#casualties #cause #container #could #day

Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#american taxpayer #container #equitable #facilities #fee

It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#easy #efficient #elegant #keys #noticing

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#always #anything #container #could #eat

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#better #container #destroys #does #else

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#end #in the end #into #novel #pour

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#container #create #itself #narrative #people