Sentence examples for any sortie from inspiring English sources

A spokesman for the I.D.F. said that while he could not rule out other drone flights, he was not aware of any sortie over Tel Aviv.

To prevent any sortie, the Arabs stepped up their vigilance, maintaining constant cavalry patrols even during the night.

On 26 September 1914 Suffren and the battleship were ordered to the Dardanelles to assist British ships in blockading the Dardannelles to prevent any sortie by the German battlecruiser and the light cruiser back into the Mediterranean.

On any given sortie, Roberts said, "it is completely unknown whether they are nuclear-tipped".

In 2011, the European Union Naval Force began using drones and intelligence to position warships so that barely any pirate sortie could avoid coming across one as they set out.

In these piquets would be posted by day to prevent any sudden sortie; by night the same stations were held by sentries and strong garrisons.

The title of that movie, meaning drunk, also indicated the spiritual direction taken in any road movie: not forwards, or backwards, or even inwards, but sideways, a physical displacement, a geographical dislodging, a sortie from the comfort zone to a place where new perspectives may allow new insights – or perhaps not.

Once, back from a sortie, he found a portly gentleman being helped on to the wing of his Spitfire.

Instead of Laura Baxter, Ben Halsall or any others in the "Leeds 13" collective - fourth-years whose Spanish sortie last year actually took place at a Scarborough caravan site - the 38 items were labelled with names including Rodin, Henry Moore and Damien Hirst.

This first sortie ended badly.

This did not mean that Pathfinders had any more experience; four of 97 Squadron's crews flying that night were on their first sortie of the war.