Sentence examples for against roadside from inspiring English sources

The initiative was hailed by troops as a lifesaving defense against roadside bombs.

But other drivers prefer to travel alone, figuring that soldiers would only call attention to their loads and would offer little protection against roadside bombs in any case.

The expanding American support to other nations' troops in the battle against roadside bombs includes "more intelligence, training and equipment, including jammers, route-clearance robots, surveillance systems and ground-penetrating radars," Mr. Gates said.

For the Army company based at this outpost, among the 19 on Captain Odom's rounds, it involves long, bone-rattling journeys in armored vehicles protected against roadside bombs or suicide attacks.

ISTANBUL — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates pledged Friday that the United States would help protect foreign troops in Afghanistan by offering them armored transport vehicles, surveillance systems and electronic equipment to guard against roadside bombs.

They were in a 15-ton armoured carrier, a Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected Vehicle (MRAP) used by the US Marines, considered to be one of the best protected against roadside bombs.

Defense officials mistakenly assumed the conflict was under control and left American soldiers to ride in thin-skinned Humvees that provided no protection against lethal roadside bombs.

The fourth attack was against a roadside restaurant whose owner donated the building for use as the first girls' school in the area.

Right now, I believe I would lie down for him in any bog or mucky hole or feel my spine crushed against any roadside rock, should he require an upright encounter.

Mr. Brown said that a further condition he had set for British reinforcements had also been met — the availability of additional equipment to support the extra British troops, particularly enough helicopter troop transports and armored cars to shield the troops against the roadside bombs that have been responsible for many of the 98 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan so far this year.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates recently canceled the most expensive part of the program, the new combat vehicles that were to cost $87 billion, out of concern that they would not provide enough protection against simple roadside bombs that have killed soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.