Sentence examples for convoy before from inspiring English sources

NATO forces spotted the convoy before it had traveled two miles, and called in a French airstrike.

As Colonel Qaddafi's troops approached Zawiyah, however, NATO warplanes bombed the convoy before it could reach the strategic city.

However, the UN has said it was not allowed to move the first convoy before 19 September.

Gunmen described by the Syrian regime as 'terrorists' ambushed and fired upon the international team's convoy before seizing the workers on Sunday.

The attack on a military convoy before a high-profile visit by an Indian prime minister to Kashmir is not a new development.

American officials said Israel hit a convoy before dawn on Wednesday that was ferrying sophisticated SA-17 antiaircraft missiles to Lebanon.

She was then ordered back to Germany, where she served in a variety of roles, including training ship and convoy escort, before again returning to Norway.

She escorted a number of convoys before she required a lengthy refit from November to May 1944.

Instead, he sent raiders into central Virginia, where they attacked depots and supply convoys, before he recalled them on June 20.

With his available aircraft augmented by Hawker Hurricanes and Bristol Blenheims, he conducted attacks on enemy convoys before evacuating the area on 15 February 1942, the day that Singapore surrendered.

Furious spent the first months of the war hunting for German raiders and escorting convoys before she began to support British forces in Norway.