Sentence examples for dispatch of marines from inspiring English sources

Inevitably the dispatch of marines, Black Hawks and an aircraft-carrier looked to some like an invasion (after all, they have been there before).

Woodrow Wilson's occupation of Haiti in 1915, Lyndon Johnson's dispatch of Marines to the Dominican Republic in 1965 and Ronald Reagan's invasion of Grenada in 1983 are just a few of the pre-emptive interventions launched to protect American dominance in this hemisphere.

When the Afghans seemed to lose interest in the task the Central Command even considered dispatching hundreds of marines to do the job.

President Bush moved quickly yesterday to dispatch a contingent of marines to serve as the core of an international peacekeeping force.

The National Transportation Safety Board, which is heading the investigation, dispatched a team of marine investigators led by a former cargo ship captain.

Admiral Sir Jeremy Black, who has died aged 83, commanded HMS Invincible, one of the two aircraft carriers dispatched to the South Atlantic in April 1982 to provide a defensive shield around the force of marines and paratroopers tasked with recapturing the Falkland Islands in the wake of the Argentinian invasion.

A number of marines were also wounded.

But the deployment fed a sense of foreboding in Britain -- the closest ally in President Bush's campaign against Mr. Hussein -- that war is again looming after the dispatch this year of British marines to Afghanistan.

"The regularity and dispatch of it!

The dispatch of flowers and condolence cards.

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