Sentence examples for fleet face from inspiring English sources

"There is now a howling gale, similar to the conditions Drake and the fleet face".

Mr. Fraissignes estimates that 8,000 to 8,500 commercial aircraft in the world's fleet face retirement in the next 20 years.

A recurring theme in these years were the annual Fleet Problems, which began in 1923 and simulated large fleet actions by having most of the active fleet face off against each other.

The result was a new, asymmetrical tactical environment: a surface fleet facing a "fleet" composed mainly of submarines and land-based aircraft.

Ainslie was pleased that the fleet faced a variety of conditions – from winds of up to 25 knots and waves up to three metres high to just about flat calm.

As Military.com first reported, Neller cites maintenance backlogs and a shortage of available aircraft as major issues the CH-53 fleet faces.

OO Fading US Fishermen Historic Industry Faces A Warming Worldd after weathering overfishing, pollution, foreign competition and government regulation, America's fishing fleet faces a challenge it can't outrun: Climate change.

The Pentagon says the current fleet "faces capability gaps, rising maintenance costs, and parts obsolescence as it reaches the end of its planned 30-year life-cycle".

It was there that Antony's fleet faced the much larger fleet of smaller, more maneuverable ships under commanders Agrippa and Gaius Sosius in the battle of Actium on 2 September 31 BC.

But efforts to modernize fleets face a headwind.

ZoomSafer provides risk management software to control and prevent employee use of mobile phones to text, email or browse the web while driving, which it says one of the most difficult challenges fleet operators face today.