Sentence examples for drills were held from inspiring English sources

Pandemic plans were written, and emergency drills were held.

Neither full nor partial evacuation drills were held.

"The drills were held every month, even in the night," Mr. Park, 45, said.

In anticipation of the event, X-Day "drills" were held in 1996 and 1997.

Night training exercises and gunnery drills were held each day and underway drills and training had been completed and commissary stores loaded by 9 July.

Local Party cells organised families to clean and maintain their local bunkers, and civil defence drills were held at least twice a month, lasting for up to three days, in which civilians of military age of both sexes were issued with rifles (but no ammunition).

Reports of artillery fire in the North briefly spooked Seoul on Wednesday morning but the military quickly announced that the firing was part of regular drills being held in the North.

The conference drew up rules requiring that every ship have lifeboat space for each person embarked; that lifeboat drills be held for each voyage; and, because the Californian had not heard the distress signals of the Titanic, that ships maintain a 24-hour radio watch.

Many cruise lines already adhered to this practice, but some didn't because international law requires only that drills be held within 24 hours of passengers' embarkation.

The drill is held loosely in a chuck at the end of the cylinder and is struck by rapid blows from the freely moving piston.

The drill is held in a rotating spindle and is fed into the workpiece, which is usually clamped in a vise resting on a table.