Sentence examples for bombing toward from inspiring English sources

Under the Nazi regime, however, it was again made a naval stronghold and sustained severe Allied bombing toward the end of World War II.

Having already had experience in the bombing of civilian population centres such as Warsaw and Rotterdam, he apparently concurred in Hermann Göring's decision to redirect Luftwaffe bombing toward London.

Occasionally it even appears to take up temporary residence in someone's head — dive-bombing toward the back of a skull like a blow — so that it (and we) can see the world directly from another point of view: This is your brain.

A lieutenant colonel in the Iraqi National Police at the scene of the bombing pointed toward Sadr City and said, "Al Qaeda took advantage of the militia conflict across there to infiltrate the security in this area and make it weak".

In the other direction, headed north, villagers fleeing the bombing plodded toward Jalalabad with bedding, carpets, bags of clothing and bundles of firewood piled atop donkeys, their cattle sometimes blocking the military traffic.

That demographic fact initially led the Bush administration to shy away from bombing a path toward Kabul for the Northern Alliance.

Recognized by the white helmets on their heads, the group jumps into action at the first sign of a bombing and drives toward the rubble.

Instead, he had suggested that Illinois ought to hang his wife and children with him, since by attending the Haymarket meeting they had contributed exactly as much toward the bombing as he had.

Asked at the news conference what happened if a violent attack or bombing interrupted the progress toward seven days of quiet, Secretary Powell replied: "Then we don't have seven quiet days".

Demleitner agreed, saying that the tactic was partly about establishing Clarke's credibility with the jury, but also about making it more difficult for the prosecution to labour the details of the injuries caused by the bombing, to build enmity toward the defendant.

At the end of the meeting, the president seemed to be leaning toward a bombing mission.