Sentence examples for constituting the fleet from inspiring English sources

With these reduced forces constituting the fleet that would serve out the last two decades of the Cold War, it was to oversee a navy that actively exercised with its alliance partners but as an increasingly marginal element, even within its anti-submarine specialty.

Tables 1 and 2 [5] provide an account of the world-fleet of vehicles, the world's mean value of vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants for the years 2000 and 2010, the number of vehicles constituting the fleet of major countries worldwide and the number of vehicles per 1,000 inhabitants in these countries for the same period, respectively.

The IISS says that the first separatist tanks observed were identified as T-64BV, a variant constituting the majority of the Ukrainian army fleet.

Their people carrier fleet constitutes the last word in suburban misery-wagons.

Tom Mleczko, whose four boats constituted the island's largest fleet, was a taciturn, gravel-voiced man who loved to combat the elements.

He'd failed at college, been refused at both his mother's and his father's now separate homes, where they lived with their newly constituted second families, the fleet of step-siblings he scorned.

Mallory had a different vision: he saw his nascent navy as someday constituting a fleet of commerce raiders, iron-sheathed floating fortresses and ocean-going ironclads to smash the blockade and terrorize Northern ports — what today we would call a "blue-water" navy.

Now he boasts that Yorktown's fleet of 17 sprayer trucks constitutes the cutting edge of de-icing systems in the Northeast.

On 29 July she sailed to the fleet's war station at Scapa Flow and began the patrols and training exercises that constituted the greater part of her service after the declaration of war on 4 August.

Israel is widely known to maintain a small fleet of advanced, Dolphin-class submarines, which are capable of firing cruise missiles with nuclear warheads; these constitute the country's sea-based, second-strike capability.

Those constituted the positives.