Sentence examples for convoying from inspiring English sources

Transit time went up to 15 hours in 1967 despite convoying, reflecting the great growth in tanker traffic at that time.

The draft, the destroyer-bases exchange, the lend-lease program, convoying, and economic sanctions against Japan were all undertaken with Roosevelt's belief that the public regarded them as vital to American national security.

Roosevelt slowly but steadily increased the US Navy's assistance to the Royal Navy in convoying supplies across the Atlantic, even when American warships began to skirmish with German U-boats.

Although a brave and resolute commander, Medina-Sidonia was given the impossible task of convoying the army under Alessandro Farnese, duke of Parma, from the Netherlands to England in the face of a better-armed English fleet and without control of a single deepwater channel port.

Talk story about the Eastwind, the Coast Guard icebreaker that has been convoying tankers & barges betw.

Western and African diplomats in early May had talked the northern government out of invading Abyei after southern forces ambushed northern troops, which were simply following protocols and convoying into Abyei as part of a United Nations-backed plan to have a few northern and southern troops run patrols together.

The strain is likely to grow more acute as the government depends on helicopter gunships to extend its reach to parts of the country rendered impassable to logistics convoys and even armored vehicles by the rebels' improvised bombs.

Striking miners had then been attempting to stop convoys of lorries taking coal to Llanwern steelworks.

For the next two weeks, Kamal worked well into the evening in his fortified office in the southern suburb of Arasat, before being sped by armoured convoy across the July 14 Bridge – which had been a target only days earlier – to his home inside the Green Zone.

Welcome to the US border town of Nogales, home to the largest fresh-produce gateway into the US – a Big Food superhighway where convoys of vast trucks roll in from Mexico, sometimes dumping mountains of crops into landfill if, for example, the price of Florida tomatoes suddenly drops.

Related: Mexican man dies during violent police response to teachers protest in Acapulco Six people died and 43 others disappeared last September when a bus convoy carrying a party of student teachers was attacked by municipal police officers, allegedly in league with a local drug cartel.