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Example sentences for "underwriters"

Lexicographically close words:
underwent; underwood; underworld; underwrite; underwriter; underwriting; underwritten; undescribed; undeserved; undeservedly
  1. We might go to the underwriters and see what we could get from them.

  2. We'll take it to the underwriters and press for all the salvage we can get.

  3. The underwriters would have an opportunity for paying up--probably rather more than she was worth.

  4. The underwriters paid all losses, and that was the end of the matter.

  5. Nobody was blamed for the wreck, the underwriters paid, and when a salvage expedition failed to recover anything, there was an end of the matter.

  6. If he did know, we'd have heard from him or the underwriters before this.

  7. I understand that you were one of the owners, and, as the underwriters paid you, I don't see what you would gain.

  8. Deliver it to the underwriters and claim salvage," said Jimmy promptly.

  9. On the underwriters first, but that's no matter," replied Bethune, who was struggling against the shock.

  10. No; we found a duplicate, containing gold of rather more than the declared weight, on which the underwriters have paid our salvage claim.

  11. I don't know much about the salvage laws, but my opinion is that the underwriters would treat us fairly if we brought back the gold; and if we couldn't come to terms with them, the courts would make us an award.

  12. The underwriters at Lloyd's and the different marine insurance offices, act in a certain degree as the police force of the seas.

  13. After the Fire of London the underwriters met in a room near Cornhill; and from thence they removed to a coffee-house in Lombard Street, kept by a person named Lloyd, where intelligence of vessels was collected and made public.

  14. The underwriters usually fix their seats in one place, and, like the brokers on the Stock Exchange, have their particular as well as casual customers.

  15. The gambling section of the public took my hint and rushed into the market; the burden of protecting the underwriters was doubled, and more and more of the hoarded loot was disgorged.

  16. There are times when, a yacht having suffered partial disablement, the underwriters may propose a composition, owing to there having been no fixed expense incurred in carrying out the repairs.

  17. This clause enables the insurer to claim for the fourth quarter over and above the three quarters for which the underwriters are liable under the Collision Clause.

  18. In the first place, it leaves the underwriters liable only for losses above the value of 20l.

  19. Matches of all kinds are carefully tested in the great Underwriters' Laboratories, which The National Board of Fire Underwriters maintains in Chicago, and those that are able to pass the test are labeled by the Laboratories.

  20. And what makes it all the more interesting is that the Elizabethan underwriters calculated the Tiger's chances at the very spot where the association known as Lloyd's transacts its business to-day, the Royal Exchange in London.

  21. But there were plenty of smart Elizabethan underwriters already practising the general principles which were to be formally adopted two hundred years later, in 1779, at Lloyd's Coffee House.

  22. She was represented as such to the local Underwriters' Association for which the surveyor acted, but as the Swordfish was insured in London and not with them, the Liverpool underwriters did not consider themselves called upon to interfere.

  23. Has the agent for the underwriters visited her?

  24. A sum of money paid to underwriters for insurance, or for undertaking to indemnify for losses of any kind.

  25. The wracking-masters were appointed and paid by the board of underwriters in New York.

  26. There was a good deal of that sort of work went on when I was a boy, until the underwriters got wind of it and established the wracking system.

  27. To the underwriters I go if I've to walk to London on my bare feet.

  28. You know he is a man to go to the underwriters himself with his suspicions.

  29. He became virtually the leader in the whole matter, and seventy-nine underwriters agreed to pay one hundred pounds each to start it fairly.

  30. That it is so felt is the justification of our meeting together to-day, as underwriters of insurance and as workers for peace.

  31. For the benefit of this surviving person, the efforts involved in the payment of premiums are put forth, and the insurance companies and their underwriters constitute the machinery by which this unification is given to society.

  32. Old Davis was a man who had built up his own fortune, scraping tonnage together bit by bit, from the time when, as a captain, he had salved a crazy derelict and had her turned over to him by the underwriters in quittance of his claims.

  33. D'ye think I stump my bridge for forty-eight hours on end because of the underwriters and the deck hands?

  34. Well, most companies have quite elaborate line sheets to assist their underwriters in determining how much to hold on various classes of risks, but between you and me, you can't tell surely.

  35. And these German underwriters are perfect babes in the wood--they're just idiotic enough to cancel a profitable contract merely to take on an experimental one with a bigger premium income in its place.

  36. At least for the sake of your fellow citizens and my fellow underwriters I cordially hope not.

  37. When she went ashore off Point Sur, in 1909, Hudner bought her from the underwriters for five thousand dollars and spent more than half her original cost repairing her.

  38. Here's word from the National Fire Underwriters Association that they have adopted it, and there will be a big reduction of rates in all cities where it is a part of the fire department equipment.

  39. A series of resolutions entered into by the merchants and underwriters of Bombay, in December, 1808, when he was on the point of returning to Europe, affords more precise evidence.

  40. In this spirit he quarrelled with all his fellow-underwriters and friends and comrades, and that in the most insolent way.

  41. The underwriters knew the speed and took the risk.

  42. Der underwriters and outside companies have blaced matters in my hands and will not bay until I take der initiative.

  43. The cargo underwriters were held liable to pay a contribution to damage done to the ship by cutting away masts for the general safety.

  44. The claim was against underwriters on a ship which had been so damaged that the cost of repairs had exceeded her insured value.

  45. Proper equipment and competent men working under inspection by the Underwriters Laboratories are now available.

  46. The National Board of Fire Underwriters has proved by careful investigation that a properly installed and maintained system of lightning rods will give a house ninety-eight per cent protection.

  47. I've just called up the Board of Underwriters and they say the cargo hasn't been lost.

  48. To assist the underwriters in their calculations, at the end of the room is an Anemometer, which registers the state of the wind day and night; attached is a rain gauge.

  49. To assist the underwriters in their calculations, at the end of the room is an Anemometer, which registers the state of the wind day and night; attached is a rain-gauge.

  50. It was first under the management of a single individual, who started it as a room where the underwriters and insurers of ships' cargoes could meet for refreshment and conversation.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underwriters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.