Noun : I had a whale of a time in Europe. From Dictionary.com.
At present only research whaling is allowed, but a lot of whales hunted become food under the guise of ‘scientific’ research. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Japan: Whaling. Scientific research or commercial hunting?] Reference
Since 1986, when the International whaling Commission (IWC) 's moratorium was enforced, commercial whaling is prohibited in Japan. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Japan: Whaling. Scientific research or commercial hunting?] Reference
Conservationists say the whaling is a cover for the sale and consumption of whale meat. From Wordnik.com. [BBC - Ouch] Reference
Personally I think there is a lot of emotional rubbish about whaling, that is not to say I agree with it because I don't. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Japan has already been widely criticised for its whaling, which is generally seen as a thinly disguised hunting operation. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
The whaling, which is said to be for "research" is widely believed to serve the commercial market for whale meat in Japan. From Wordnik.com. [The Greenpeace weblog] Reference
Only scientific whaling is allowed. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Japan: Whaling. Scientific research or commercial hunting?] Reference
Japanese whaling which is in fact commercial is illegal. From Wordnik.com. [Green Pirates Claim Victory on Whaling - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Japan urged to recall whaling fleet. From Wordnik.com. [Japan volcano erupts with big blast of ash and rocks] Reference
But no matter how you work it, bridge is not whaling. From Wordnik.com. [The Cardturner by Louis Sachar] Reference
So in Japan and elsewhere whaling and dolphin hunting persist. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Jones: What Will End the Dolphin Slaughter?] Reference
If the risks of whaling were many, the rewards could be great. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Their crime: exposing corruption in the Japanese whaling program. From Wordnik.com. [Kumi Naidoo: Activists Are Not Criminals] Reference
Few whaling ships now arrive with profitable cargoes of oil or whalebone. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Or when those activists from "Whale Wars" were about to ram my whaling boat. From Wordnik.com. [Blaming Bush just doesn't work like it used to] Reference
United States, where the government had established a whaling relief station. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference
The message to the visiting Japanese delegation was clear: no whaling on our watch. From Wordnik.com. [Whales On The Agenda] Reference
At that time the islands were important only as a calling place for whaling vessels. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Revolution England had fewer than 100 vessels whaling, while America had more than 300. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
What a capital story, by the bye, Typee tells us of one of this Bembo's whaling exploits!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
It was the scene of my early triumphs as a 'sourdough' after I left the whaling business, and I. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference
At the same time, English whaling had been government subsidized and could undercut competition. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
So New England merchants and sailors shifted to whaling and adapted to the new geography of trade. From Wordnik.com. [LESSONS FROM NEW ENGLAND] Reference
For "Moby-Dick," the editors simply omitted the history and mythology of whaling from the story line. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Only two men on that boat, Pollard and Charles Ramsdell, were alive when they were rescued by the whaling ship. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
If Japan stopped whaling and dolphin hunting now it would appear environmentalists had forced them to back down. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Jones: What Will End the Dolphin Slaughter?] Reference
The Essex was an aging vessel from Nantucket, which at the time possessed the largest whaling fleet in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
"A whaling ship, sure enough," declared Professor Henderson, who seemed the least astonished by these manoeuvres. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
They chain themselves to doomed trees, ram whaling boats on the high seas and stand between harpoons and baby seals. From Wordnik.com. [Pin-Striped Protesters] Reference
In the same sentence, you state that the whaling opponents "note that blubber ... continues to turn up on sushi menus.". From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Pakistan’s Elections] Reference
The whale is a nod to Moby-Dick, which is packed with whaling detail, just as The Cardturner is packed with bridge detail. From Wordnik.com. [The Cardturner by Louis Sachar] Reference
When we think of Hendrix, we hear those signature sounds, the feedback, the whaling high notes and those bends in the low notes. From Wordnik.com. [Turtle Island Quartet Re-Imagine Jimi Hendrix, With Strings] Reference
Should the Japanese continue whaling, there's a chance they could face detention and other sanctions if they put into Australian ports. From Wordnik.com. [Ecopolitics: Why Japan Risks Its Place In the World to Hunt Whales] Reference
And yet the estimated 42,000 humpbacks that now populate all the world's oceans are a far cry from the pre-whaling estimates of 230,000. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Chameides: A Whale of a Climate Story] Reference
Today I believe that sticking Japan's nose in it may be making it all but impossible for Tokyo to withdraw from whaling or dolphin hunting. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Jones: What Will End the Dolphin Slaughter?] Reference
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