Sentence examples for discovered quantities from inspiring English sources

In 1963 he, while in prison, and nine other men (five black, three white, and one Indian) were prosecuted in the celebrated Rivonia Trial, named after a fashionable suburb of Johannesburg, where raiding police discovered quantities of arms and equipment at the headquarters of the underground Umkonto We Sizwe (Spear of the Nation, the African National Congress' military wing).

In 1963 the imprisoned Mandela and several other men were tried for sabotage, treason, and violent conspiracy in the celebrated Rivonia Trial, named after a fashionable suburb of Johannesburg where raiding police had discovered quantities of arms and equipment at the headquarters of the ANC's military wing, the underground Umkhonto We Sizwe ("Spear of the Nation").

Nor has prospecting for uranium discovered workable quantities of the ore.

Socal began a new era of expansion overseas after company geologists discovered vast quantities of oil in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in the early 1930s.

Uganda has discovered large quantities of crude on the Albertine belt along the border, and oil companies are drilling for more crude there.

Investigators discovered large quantities of chemicals that could be used to make a bomb and that were linked to a Tunisian arrested on suspicion of plotting attacks on American interests in Europe, officials said today.

We can finally begin to think seriously about establishing such a self-sufficient home on the Moon because last week, NASA announced that it had discovered large quantities of water there.

Scientists have been intrigued with the polar region since NASA's orbiting Odyssey spacecraft in 2002 discovered vast quantities of water-ice lying a few inches below the surface.

Petroleum was discovered in commercial quantities at Elk Basin in 1915.

They were the mainstay of Qatar's economy until oil and gas were discovered in commercial quantities in the early 1970s.

With the new law, South Africa hopes to transform an industry that has been an instrument and emblem of white social and economic control since gold and diamonds were first discovered in sizable quantities in South Africa in the 19th century.