Sentence examples for fighting service from inspiring English sources

However, though he was a valiant Royal Marine - with a Military Cross and bar, and more than 36 years of mainly fighting service around Britain's colonial hotspots - Moore played a relatively small part in the Falklands operation.

We said, 'If you shut down Napster, it's going to splinter, and you're going to have a Whac-A-Mole problem on your hands, where you're fighting service after service and you're never going to get all those users back in one place.' And that's what happened".

In the North East, Cleveland is the first authority to consider transferring its fire fighting service to an independent employee-led mutual.

It's a different thing saying IT services or human resource management service within a fire fighting service should be outsourced, but to sell off everything is full scale privatisation.

On 9 July a fleet of five Spanish and one French ship of the line and several frigates arrived from Cadiz to safely escort Linois's squadron to the Spanish port, and the British at Gibraltar redoubled their efforts to restore their squadron to fighting service.

One personalized gift you can give to a volunteer fire fighting service is... yourself!

"But for the gallantry and ideals of the fighting services there would be no England for you to come home to and no ship to bring you," he chided her.

(Fire fighting services remained separate).

Fire fighting services are provided by North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Services, who maintain a retained fire station in Grassington, and cave and mountain rescue services are provided by the Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association, based in Grassington.

This lesson and that of subsequent raids by the German Gotha bombers made the British think more seriously about strategic bombing and about the need for an air force independent of the other fighting services.

That's a hell of a long piece of history – and how much suffering, meanwhile?" The head of MI5 reported in 1940 that "in the personality and experience of Sir Charles Wickham, the fighting services have at their elbow a most valuable friend and counsellor".