Sentence examples for be sent into action from inspiring English sources

B4 WAITING FOR ORDERS -- On Okinawa, life has been transformed for the 17,000 marines there, wondering if they will be sent into action.

But the B-2 itself is so expensive (at more than $2 billion) and so embarrassing to lose that it can be sent into action only very cautiously.Given the drawbacks of using air power alone, and the continuing reluctance to make ground troops fight their way in, is there a half-way house?

In a November 1984 speech, Mr. Weinberger said the American military should only be sent into action when a vital national interest was at stake, when decisive force was brought to bear in a wholehearted effort to win, and when support from Congress and the public was reasonably assured.

He has also ceded to his commanders decision-making when it comes to how many troops to deploy in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere, making it a reasonable probability that more U.S. personnel will be sent into action in the months and years to come.

He replies, "I should like to paint the war, sir," and so is sent into action.

It is that soldiers are trained to use violence, and that when they are sent into action a few abuses will always occur.

I most likely viewed the Waffen S.S. as an élite unit that was sent into action whenever a breach in the front line had to be stopped up.

Volunteers with the Coniston Mountain Rescue Team in the Lake District have already been sent into action 44 times this year – more than in the whole of 2014.

Nahum Barnea, whose column in the newspaper Yediot Ahronot is the most widely read in Israel, told me that, while other fledgling Zionist leaders like Rabin and Moshe Dayan were maturing as combat soldiers, Peres was sent into action as a Party apparatchik.

Take France: the same Rafale fighter jets it tried to sell to Colonel Muammar Qaddafi are now being sent into action against him.The European Union, too, is revising its "neighbourhood policy" in the hope that its claim to be promoting economic and political reform in return for greater integration with the EU will no longer seem such a mockery.

When news comes that the President of the United States (Dennis Quaid) has agreed to be a guest judge on the program's final round, Omer is sent into action by a sleeper cell and ordered to martyr himself for the cause — the downside being that his only cause is show tunes.