on the surface

The Odo commandment “do not despair of death” reads on the surface like compassion — acceptance of loss is something everyone, including Faruq, needs to manage.

On the surface, the event - a day before International Women's Day - was a success and provides a launchpad for women's boxing in Britain to progress.

He adds that "hundreds" of such bots would need to harvest the seabed at a time, bringing the spoils to a ship on the surface.

Dutch company Allseas, which is working with Mr Barron's firm, has developed mining machinery for scooping polymetallic nodules off the seabed and sending them to a support ship on the surface.

Whales can become caught in rope that runs between shellfish creels on the seabed to a buoy on the surface.