Sentence examples for a mistral. from inspiring English sources

Some analysts predict that construction of a Mistral ship in Russia will also lag.

into a mistral wind blowing over their shoulders from the front.

A Mistral can carry 750 soldiers, 16 helicopters, Leclerc tanks, amphibious assault and landing craft, they recite.

The 3 of them grow especially irritable one evening during an extremely hot spell with a mistral.

On a late-fall day, she added, when a mistral blows the skies clear after a rain, you can sometimes see Corsica.

The exact terms of the arms embargo have yet to be decided, but it isn't expected to have any effect on existing contracts, such as France's delivery, later this year, of a Mistral warship.

For months, Russian officials have been negotiating with France over the purchase of a Mistral-class amphibious assault ship, at an estimated cost of up to $750 million, and a license to build several more in Russia.

If the Russian Black Sea Fleet had possessed a Mistral-class warship in 2008, it could have finished its war on Georgia in "40 minutes instead of 26 hours", the head of the Russian navy, Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, once boasted.

The sale of a Mistral-class vessel -- a 21,300-ton assault ship that can carry 16 helicopters, dozens of tanks and up to 750 soldiers -- is a concern for some of Russia's maritime neighbors in the Baltic region and the Caucasus, especially Georgia, following a war between the two countries in August 2008.

There was, however, no decision on the most sensitive topic at the gathering of top government and business representatives at Rambouillet, outside Paris: whether France will sell to Russia a Mistral-class warship, which carries helicopters, troops and can serve as a mobile command center.

On the contrary, the secondary spring lambing occurs at a time when a strong mistral blows, at a dry season, which enhances the aerosols.