Sentence examples for exercises close to from inspiring English sources

Another analyst said military exercises close to the North Korean coast have always angered Pyongyang.

About 70,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards, paratroopers and commandos have been in military exercises close to Afghanistan.

Russia's military modernisation and menacing large-scale exercises close to NATO's borders worried the alliance's northern and eastern members.

Plibersek stopped short of calling for Australia to announce regular freedom-of-navigation exercises close to the disputed territories and reefs, saying public statements "can be perceived as deliberately provocative so you'd have to take a case-by-case approach".

Pyongyang blamed the South for provoking the shelling by holding military exercises close to Yeonpyeong.

Russian troops have begun military exercises close to the border with Ukraine while Nato forces are conducting exercises in Poland.

Another rule dictates that over a five-year period no more than half of any sailor's time can be at sea, including training exercises closer to home.

China's sole aircraft carrier, accompanied by several warships, sailed close to Taiwan this week, which followed on from air force exercises also close to Taiwan.

When Mr. Shorto invites the reader to erase the modern-day skyscrapers and imagine the meadows of Manhattan dotted with deer, it is an exercise close to his heart.

Brown, however, did have to apologise last week after members of the Women's Institute witnessed a public bust-up between team-mates Nick Barmby and Jimmy Bullard during a training exercise close to the Humber Bridge.

Further, there will be a lot of statistical uncertainty surrounding any given TEF score, making comparisons (a primary purpose of the whole exercise) close to useless.A new book by Professor Jerry Muller argues that we are seeing the rise of metric fixation, and that this inevitably leads to gaming of the system.