Sentence examples for convoys it from inspiring English sources

Their efforts are based in part on a recent study from 2007 data that found that the U.S. military loses one person, killed or wounded, for every 24 fuel convoys it runs in Afghanistan.

But keeping our bases and units supplied with fuel endangers not just the lives of many soldiers manning the tanker convoys, it also drains $24 billion a year from the Pentagon budget.

While the strength of the escort force was much smaller than that assigned to the regular convoys, it was believed that submarines posed the main threat and that three warships would provide adequate protection.

They seem to be looking westward, and, as long as they publicly insist that they allow non-military convoys, it may not matter what is actually transported across their territories.

When a German submarine found an Allied convoy, it radioed the convoy's location to its headquarters so that other submarines could be sent to join the attack.

I mean, this convoy, it's rolling like a slow freight train.

"Don't let him get near the convoy!" It was tense for a few moments.

The explosion was more than 100 metres behind the convoy, it said.

An expeditionary corps under Bonaparte easily occupied Malta and Egypt, but the squadron that had convoyed it was destroyed by Horatio Nelson's fleet at the Battle of the Nile on 14 Thermidor, year VI (August 1, 1798).

An inquiry into the incident by the Iraqi government later rejects the company's claim that the US diplomatic convoy it had been guarding was bombed and ambushed, provoking the gunfire.

While the bombing of the trucks on Monday night in Aleppo province constituted the first attack against an official UN convoy, it is sadly not the first time that humanitarian operations have come under fire.