Sentence examples for brief land from inspiring English sources

A successful amphibious landing on San Carlos Water, Falkland Sound, followed, and after a brief land campaign the Argentine military governor surrendered the islands on June 14.

The wave proceeded along the extreme northeastern Caribbean, where convective activity waxed and waned due to periods of variable wind shear and brief land interaction with Hispaniola.

After a brief landing and examination of the remains of Borchgrevink's camp, the ship continued southwards along the Victoria Land coast.

Each leg is mercifully brief, landing its blow and moving into the next.

It lies at the end of a long promontory; below the Cape is a large triangular shingle foreshore, where Bull and Borchgrevink had made their brief landing in 1895.

A month after that jet staged the brief landing in Newark, FBI agents showed up at one of Deripaska's residences in New York and tried to get him to become an informant, The New York Times reported earlier this month.

This is how we have been led down too many primrose paths to disaster: the Bay of Pigs, the POW rescue in North Vietnam, the desert mission to rescue the Iranian hostages, our dogged support of failed regimes, our brief landing in Lebanon and precipitate withdrawal, etc., etc.

We all met up in a bothy the night before filming to discuss the brief: aliens land, regroup and climb a mountain (Stac Pollaidh) to build some sort of beacon.

Boaters can use a VHF channel to hail the rangers, who will then ask the boater to switch to a different channel for the purpose of providing a brief orientation, landing instructions, and other details.

"We then heard the flight commander prepare the briefing for landing at Düsseldorf and the responses of the co-pilot seemed laconic.

"We heard the flight commander prepare the briefing for landing at Düsseldorf and the response of the co-pilot seemed laconic.