Sentence examples for before a raid from inspiring English sources

Blunt's investigation led to the discovery of rituals such as one agent who would always sleep on her sofa the night before a raid.

Before a raid, according to descriptions by several veterans, soldiers typically "quarantined" the area by barring anyone from coming in or leaving.

The attorney general's office said it had no record of Marvel's calling for such an operation, which existing law required before a raid could be conducted, and the company insists it had nothing to do with it.

A third of them named America with which Pakistan supposedly has a military alliance.That alliance was already turbulent before a raid by American special forces killed Osama bin Laden on May 2nd.

Before a raid one day, he recalled, "I went to Captain Hart and I said, 'Sir, I don't feel comfortable telling my guys to go into that door hot.' And I can't quote him directly, but he said, 'What do you mean?

McLennan-Murray was at the centre of one of the most controversial events in modern prison service history when, on 5th May 2000, he was summarily removed from his post as governor of HMP Blantyre House hours before a raid on his prison by a battalion of 84 prison officers, many wearing full riot gear, wielding staves, crowbars and sledge hammers.

Late that evening, German artillery bombarded the Allied line around the Cordonnerie salient, before infantry launched a raid on the 11th Battalion's trenches.

The resident, who gave his name only as Moaz, said that the battle lasted three hours and that government forces evacuated the residential building and cut the power before mounting a raid.

The squad allegedly used informants to learn of the criminals' plans, possibly even encouraged them, before designing a raid.

The group of men stood outside a suspected drug dealer's lair, just as they had done dozens of times before, about to conduct a raid.

Virginia had largely escaped military notice before 1779, when a raid destroyed much of the state's shipbuilding capacity and seized or destroyed large amounts of tobacco, which was a significant trade item for the Americans.