Sentence examples for first convoys from inspiring English sources

Canadians established the first convoys in the American zone, and American convoys soon followed.

He joined one of the first convoys out of London delivering tents, food and clothing to Syrians fleeing the civil war in March 2012.

But in case anyone expected that the agreement between Russia and the United States on delivering aid would bring relief, a week ago a sustained, hourslong aerial attack was carried out on one of the first convoys of United Nations aid trucks permitted to travel under that agreement.

However, the UN has said it was not allowed to move the first convoy before 19 September.

And the United Nations said that its first convoy of food, some 50 trucks' worth from Jordan, had arrived in Baghdad.

As a young officer in 1919 he had accompanied the army's first convoy across a continent where you sometimes had to navigate roadless tracts with a compass.

A minority of returnees – those included in the first convoy – returned to Mauritania without having the correct birth registration records for their children born in Senegal.

He says: On the first convoy, about 50 people went from Bradford to Gaza while others did the fund-raising and buying of aid.

The first convoy sailed from Gibraltar to Great Britain on May 10 , 1917 the first from the United States sailed later in May; ships using the South Atlantic sailed in convoy from July 22.

When Binet "does" the Theresienstadt ghetto in his novel, he sounds as if he'd worked it up from Wikipedia: The first convoy left for Riga on January 9 , 1942 a thousand people, of whom 105 would survive.

French aircraft struck Islamic militant training camps and arms depots around Kidal and Tessalit in Mali's far north, defence officials said on Sunday, as the first convoy of food, fuel and parts to eastern Mali headed across the country.