The boys built a raft.

Migrants rescued from an inflatable raft.

Tom floated downstream on a raft.

Tom pushed the raft into the water.

All the people on the raft began to panic.

The raft has drifted far off from the shore.

There's a raft of research, but I know it from my personal life.

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

In 1954 William Willis sailed alone from Peru to American Samoa on the small raft Seven Little Sisters .

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.

And the menace of war is followed by a raft of social, environmental, geopolitical, technological, and economic risks and trends.

Apart from the resulting global inefficiency, this also creates a whole new raft of industry players that will keep pushing inefficient legislation, simply because it fills their coffers.

Just a year later, it was my very own uncle who left the country in a rickety raft along with 17 other men right before the so called rafters crisis .

Thinking about countries in these comprehensive terms also provides a different strategic perspective. Clinton has created a raft of new positions at the State Department to spur outreach to different social segments.

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.

It was not long ago that a Republican Congress held up 1 billion of UN dues, and threatened that it would only pay what it owed if the UN satisfied a raft of conditions.

After discouraging all US allies from joining the AIIB, President Barack Obama s administration watched as Great Britain led a raft of Western European countries, followed by Australia and South Korea, into doing just that.

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.

Preemption by Gazprom has been accomplished through a raft of acquisitions. Gazprom has flooded the market in Turkey, withheld gas in Ukraine, threatened to do so in Belarus, and offered preferential market access to willing partners, such as Italy.

Today, despite a raft of foreign exchange controls, a bolívar is worth barely 300 pesos at the official exchange rate (which is soon to be readjusted) one would be lucky to get 30 pesos at the black market rate.

Preemption by Gazprom has been accomplished through a raft of acquisitions. Gazprom has flooded the market in Turkey, withheld gas in Ukraine, threatened to do so in Belarus, and offered preferential market access to willing partners, such as Italy.

I am not endorsing leniency for looters and thugs but we already know where the raft of punitive legislation that Cameron is proposing, and his efforts to exploit civil unrest to clamp down on civil liberties, would lead the country.

In the weeks leading up to the elections, it seemed that the public had grown weary of a prime minister who had been in office long enough to be corrupted by the arrogance of power and tainted by a raft of petty scandals.

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.

Earlier this month, activists in St. Petersburg donned masks, dressing as high ranking Russian officials, and carried to the Neva River a large effigy of the ruble on a funeral raft, which they released into the water, where it free floated. (Police arrested three participants in this act.)

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. Reminiscent of development strategies prevalent in East Asia, Thaksin picked strategic niche industries to propel Thailand s economic expansion, focusing on automobiles, fashion, food, healthcare, and tourism.

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. In the 1950 s, Jack Kerouac took his buddy careening across the country in On the Road.