Sentence examples for * the sortie from inspiring English sources

The only green in his immediate environment is, ironically, the Sortie (Exit) sign.

Breathing "full-on" oxygen all through the sortie was uncomfortable – and no remedy against anoxia after two or three hours, when a deadly sense of well-being would take hold and his vision grow disturbed.

"It is letting civilians die every day".However, a senior NATO officer claimed that the sortie rate was the same as before and the strike rate against Colonel Qaddafi's forces higher.

She explained that the sortie began with military precision around 9pm on Monday, that all of those who attacked their homes were wearing surgical gloves, masks and combat uniforms, that they arrived with wheelie bins stuffed with bricks, bottles and other missiles, and that the entire attack appeared to be well organised.

This research develops an agent based simulation model for application to the sortie generation process, focusing on a single fighter aircraft unit.

During the sortie, he destroyed a solitary Messerschmitt Bf 109.

Flying out of some distant bases raised the average sortie time to 5.4 hours, with some sorties lasting up to seven hours--refueling accomplished in the air.

That day, the first sortie released about eighteen hundred gallons of dispersant into the water.

I've already shared the opening sortie – Turnbull telling the radio host he is not going to take dictation from him.

As the helicopter sortie returned at dusk last night, long volleys of machine gun fire echoed around the lagoon city.

The fishermen patiently mend their nets ready for the next sortie onto the lagoon in search of clams and crabs, sea bass and John Dory.