Sentence examples for distant fronts from inspiring English sources

British troops, like Americans, fight on distant fronts, sustaining mounting losses.

And, in this first global conflict, communications to the most distant fronts crept rather than raced.

As operations there wind down, "Murph: The Protector" reminds us of the valor expended on distant front lines and the holes left at home.

Brian's war consisted of taking delivery of film from the distant front once a week or so and leisurely sending it to broadcasters in Britain.

Difficulty with senior commanders on the distant war fronts was anticipated.

The village of Sheri Ram Reddy Guda ("Unwired Villages Mired in the Distant Past," front page, March 19) is one of 500,000 villages in India whose poverty is too familiar.

With Tiros, which circled the planet every 98 minutes, forecasters suddenly had a riot of observational data, and the accuracy of their predictions soared as they began to track distant storms and fronts.

"At about 30 yards distant from the front line we walked into a machine gun barrage.

The fundamental lesson, applicable as much at Six Nations level as Old Fartonians Extra Bs, is that teams who finish a distant second up front cannot expect to win rugby matches.

Immediate family rarely got to visit the cemeteries on the distant European western front – where 46,000 Australians perished, 18,000 of them never to be identified or found – or Gallipoli, which claimed 8700 Australians between April and December 1915.

"I would say that support is less here than in Greece, as we are a little distant from the front line of the crisis," he said.