Sentence examples for convoy started from inspiring English sources

Mr. Qadir, his voice choking, said: "Then the first vehicle in the convoy started shooting, and 14 bullets hit the car.

Let's have some more.' " The volunteers' convoy started before 7 a.m. from the First Christian Church in Tucson, where Mr. Hoover is pastor.

1949 - The Berlin airlift Blockade of Berlin over "The blockade of Berlin ended at one minute past midnight this morning when a British convoy started its journey through the Soviet zone.

Others in the convoy started shooting, too, and struck Haithem's mother, who was riding in the front seat, next to her son, and died screaming for someone to help him.

The Russians said the convoy started moving because it could not wait any longer, owing to the worsening humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine, which is held by pro-Russian separatists.

In particular, the depot (i.e. the place where each rail convoy starts the service every day and is housed every night) is located at one end of the line (i.e. at the beginning of the outward trip).

When small aid convoys started travelling from the UK to Syria after civil war broke out in 2011 they were barely noticed.

Through this first convoy, which started from Damascus and involved eight UN agencies, UNICEF delivered, as a first batch, family hygiene kits and special hygiene kits for babies.

A Western diplomat said that the five activists had been traveling, without visas, with an aid convoy that had started in London and had journeyed by land through several North African countries, bound for Gaza.

Thus it seems logical, as well as ethical, for Gaza land convoys to start their aid missions from Cairo.

As the coordinated convoys of protesters started to roll toward Belgrade Thursday -- from north, south, east and west, in buses and trucks, tractors and cars -- one opposition leader absented himself, heading for Budapest.