Sentence examples for embarkation to from inspiring English sources

Then France, until the Germans followed them there; then the eleventh-hour embarkation to New York, in 1940, a few weeks ahead of the Wehrmacht.

Much of the money was already spent in the ports and coastal areas where the troops assembled and waited for embarkation to Italy or the Netherlands.

Thus, replacing personhood with a cluster concept of rights offers a point of embarkation to a more coherent and egalitarian approach to our relationships with the nonhuman world.

A Gikuyu air hostess, seeing Wainaina's Ugandan first name – he is named after his mother's brother – challenges him at the point of embarkation to prove he is Kenyan.

Ignatius was taken prisoner during a persecution of the Antioch church; he was put in chains and escorted, along with others, by a unit of soldiers to Troas in northwestern Asia Minor for embarkation to Rome.

But Mr. DeLay's former chief of staff has been lobbying for the mass embarkation to the Norwegian Dawn, a 15-deck, 14-bar, 10-restaurant ship offering ultrapriced rooms and what Mr. DeLay's office deems "good security" for up to 2,200 passengers.

In order to maintain fairness, each battalion was allotted a certain number of men who would have to remain and defend the embarkation beaches to allow the others to get away.

For most Africans, the point of embarkation appears to be Libya, relatively close to Italy, whereas many Syrians arrive on vessels from as far away as Turkey or Egypt.

It allows embarkation agents to issue boarding passes at airports, hotels or anywhere else they meet passengers.

This painting, "Embarkation (Prelude to Death)," depicts grim soldiers bearing rifles and duffel bags as they head onto a hulking ship.

Smugglers are now sending thousands of people on flimsy inflatable rafts from Libya to Italy in mass embarkations, perhaps to lower their own risks of being caught, but also complicating the work of rescue teams, they said.