Sentence examples for expedition instead of from inspiring English sources

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"But as things have gone on, it has come to seem very broad and overreaching, a fishing expedition instead of a targeted law enforcement effort".

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The result is a Sacagawea coin whose back correctly shows a soaring eagle but whose front, rather than depicting the Indian woman who served as a guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition, instead shows the quarter's familiar profile of Washington.

Some of the teams have chosen to go on trekking expeditions instead, while others are still waiting and watching, BBC Nepali's Navin Singh Khadka reports.

The Sicilian Expedition was the idea of Alcibiades, and scholars have argued that, had that expedition been under Alcibiades's command instead of that of Nicias, the expedition might not have met its eventual disastrous fate.

The "exploitation" of daft male tendencies is hardly the greatest peril facing society – but it's part of a wider trend, especially in advertising, to portray men as fools who are barely able to use oven cleaner or are liable to come back from shopping expeditions with a puppy instead of a pint of milk (happens all the time – it's like 101 Dalmatians in my kitchen).

Edward was suffering ill health by this time, and instead of leading an expedition himself, he gave different military commands to Aymer de Valence and Henry Percy, while the main royal army was led by the Prince of Wales.

In more recent years, scientific expeditions have been devoted to finding carcasses instead of relying solely on chance encounters.

Instead of following a biological narrative, the expedition had cracked open a time capsule.

If not for the boating expedition, Austin might have still been home, in bed, instead of in school.

Instead of living off the land, the Franklin expedition depended on canned food.

But command of the expedition went instead to Capt.

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