Sentence examples for and rockets in a from inspiring English sources

Warren Hoge (NYT) IRELAND: ARMS CACHE FOUND The police questioned an unidentified 39-year-old man they found transporting bomb-making equipment, homemade mortars and rockets in a van near Tipperary.

There were nine troop-carrying helicopters, and they were accompanied by two gunships from the 174th Aviation Company, which, with their guns blazing, had crisscrossed the landing guns blazing, crisscrossed the landing zone moments before the combat troops landed, firing thousands of bullets and rockets in a fusillade designed to keep enemy gunmen at bay.

In the past, Israel has used targeted missile attacks to kill senior members of militant groups and it has the military capacity to target Hamas's stockpiles of missiles and rockets in a sustained campaign.

In the 1965 Oahu test, BG was sprayed in a simulated attack called "Big Tom". Near Ft. Greely, Alaska, researchers tested how deadly sarin gas, the toxin members of the Aum Supreme Truth cult used in 1995 to kill commuters in the Tokyo subway, would disperse after being released from artillery shells and rockets in dense forests in a test dubbed "Devil Hole I" in 1965.

But the volleys recently have become much heavier, sometimes as many as 30 heavy mortars and battlefield rockets in a night, and an increasing number of them have struck inside the secured zone, where the Americans and Dr. Allawi work.

Beginning on the morning of Sept.13 and continuing for 25 hours, Key watched the British fire up to 1,800 bombs and 800 rockets in an attempt to destroy Fort McHenry and reach the city.

Dodger Stadium was half full Wednesday night because it was a little chilly out and the Lakers were pummeling the Rockets in a playoff game and, after all, Los Angeles is a Lakers town.

Russia has deployed 70,000 security personnel and rocket batteries in a "ring of steel" to deter terror threats against an event that is widely seen as a political showcase for Putin.

Bryant made his own adjustments, using a modified motion and changing from a sleeve to tape to protect his wrist, and seemed freer — and more accurate — shooting against the Rockets in a 109-98 Lakers victory on Tuesday.

Last week UN agencies had reported damage done to a number of their facilities by Israeli air strikes, and condemned the placement of rockets in a UN school by a Palestinian militant faction.

Following the skirmish, Lebanese and UN officials diffused four Katyusha rockets in an abandoned house in southern Lebanon, most likely a Hezbollah weapon's cache.