Sentence examples for extensive trench from inspiring English sources

Numerous other fighting positions dotted the area, supported by an extensive trench system.

Over the weekend, African Union peacekeepers helping to bolster Somalia's weak transitional government claimed to have taken a "major step forward" by locating and cutting off an extensive trench system used by Islamist insurgents to funnel "fighters and ammunition in and out of government-held districts".

The archaeological evaluation of landscapes in the framework of developer-led archaeology is often based on extensive trenching programmes complemented with auger surveys in wetland environments.

Here Tiller held an extensive fortified trench system surrounded by a network of cactus hedges, making a "formidable obstacle".

Two notable sieges, that of Vicksburg, Miss., in the west, and Petersburg, Va., in the east, were characterized by the construction of extensive and continuous trench lines that foreshadowed those of World War I.

Over the weekend, the peacekeepers wrested several blocks from the Shabab and discovered an extensive underground tunnel and trench system that the insurgents had been using to sneak up on the peacekeepers.

And, although as a gardener, he was able to execute extensive earthworks, he dug the trenches at the siege of La Rochelle in the wrong place because he lacked the military know-how.

MOGADISHU, Somalia — At least 20 people were killed and dozens wounded in heavy fighting in Somalia's capital over the weekend, as African Union forces attacked an extensive underground fortification system of trenches and tunnels used by Islamist insurgents.

He has had extensive economic experience in the trenches of both the Treasury and State departments, as well as on Capitol Hill.

However, it is difficult to conduct such extensive seismic surveys over the entire Ryukyu Trench region since the trench is very long, about 1400 km, and is far from Honshu, the main island of Japan.

Extensive geological data were available from trenching and boreholes.