Sentence examples for armed convoy from inspiring English sources

A week after the raid, a heavily armed convoy carrying Fabiola Muñoz, the agriculture minister, stopped in La Pampa.

The tour has passed without a snag but for the three old ladies on a tuk-tuk who slipped into the heavily armed convoy en route to the opening warm-up match in Fatullah.

One year, we drove all the way to Abu Simbel, near the border of Sudan, and for the final stretch the police required us to join an armed convoy.

It was also on Monday that the American Special Forces were seen leaving Kandahar for northern Helmand Province in a heavily armed convoy with top aides to the governor of Helmand, along with aides to Gul Agha Shirzai, the American-backed warlord who controls most of southern Afghanistan.

On May 10th, the minister and his armed convoy arrived at the drop point.

They had arranged for an armed convoy to follow at a distance.

Armed convoys delivered the currency to 240 sites around the country.

Heavily armed convoys patrolled as 40,000 police and troops fanned out across southern Mexico to safeguard the vote.

Armed convoys delivered the cash to 240 bank branches across Iraq and officials distributed, in all, two billion pieces of paper.

A common situation involves Iraqis shot in their cars after they approach armed convoys, and similar encounters involving American soldiers are not uncommon.

Until the recent operation only several hundred Americans patrolled the area and a common response to attacks by lightly armed convoys was to flee when fired upon.