Sentence examples for enemy fuel from inspiring English sources

general (ret)., U.S. Air Force who, was awarded (1943) the Medal of Honor, the U.S. military's highest decoration, for his World War II heroic role in the attack on the oil fields at Ploesti, Rom., an action that effectively destroyed enemy fuel supplies.

But, there is a multiplier effect to the arms trade--the vast increase in instability, death and destruction, and declaration of new "enemies" fuels our own out-of-control military budgets, draining money from schools, health care, and all the rest of what makes for a decent society.

American motorists are as aware as any that weight is the enemy of fuel economy.

Now, making the news media the enemy might fuel the Mets.

The N.C.A.A., in Barkley's mind and in the minds of his teammates, had become the enemy, the fuel for his ambitions.

The Pentagon has also asked scientists to evaluate proposals to use genetically modified bugs that 'eat' the enemy's fuel and ammunition supplies without harming humans.

"Because we have chosen to make fire the enemy, the fuel has just built up to a point where everything wants to burn," said James Ratlif, a fire battalion chief with the Forest Service in Weaverville.

Following the end of the cold war, she expressed the fear that the west would be unable to manage without maintaining an enemy to fuel its paranoid system of thinking and she viewed the post 9/11 context and the Gulf wars from this perspective.

Local police chief Antonio Moreno has called the demonstrators "the enemy", adding fuel to complaints that his officers are using heavy-handed tactics against protesters as young as 16. Trade unions and opposition politicians have criticised police, while the local journalists' association says several of its members have been treated roughly.

His increasingly autocratic and lawless rule turned many of his supporters into unyielding enemies and fueled the uprising in which some 100 Haitians were killed.

With the ability to lock onto the trajectory of a missile, Moomey explains, you might be able to aim an air-based laser at an enemy missile's fuel tank and rapidly heat up the cladding so that "the liquid propulsion vents out and it rips open like a tin can". Moomey says that this kind of laser defense weapon, budgeted at $11 billion, should be operational sometime around 2010.