Sentence examples for for extended tours from inspiring English sources

A senior adviser to the defense secretary said that while it was easy enough to identify how many Army or Marine Corps troops the Pentagon needed for the global campaign against terror and for extended tours of duty on the ground in Iraq, Mr. Rumsfeld made no final decisions over the weekend.

In the early days directors, like the actors, tended to sign on to Bond films for extended tours.

ADMISSION $30 for house-only tour; $45 for house and grounds tour; $100 for extended tour including access to Johnson's library and study.

Was it the stress of extended tours of duty?

Maxwell, the R&B songwriter who made three platinum albums before he paused his career for seven years, was rehearsing his band for an extended tour timed to the release next week of "BLACKsummers'night" (Columbia), his first album since 2001.

IN August 1953 the astonishing young American pianist William Kapell traveled to Australia for an extended tour.

The worst moment came when they learned they were stuck for an extended tour at their base in Habbaniya, a dust bowl 40 miles west of Baghdad.

Robert Mapplethorpe: the Perfect Moment, comprised 125 photographs and was scheduled for an extended tour, ultimately to seven US cities: Philadelphia, Chicago, Washington DC, Hartford, Berkeley, Cincinnati and Boston.

Van Halen, which has returned with its original vocalist, David Lee Roth, for an extended tour and its first album with him since 1984, is trying valiantly not to be among the latter.

But such rigid distinctions tend to break down on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, where soldiers and reservists on extended tours pay the price for excessive spending on misconceived weapons projects.

Farrell was briefed on the physics of the atomic bomb by Robert Oppenheimer, and he made several extended tours of the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, which had been chosen as the site for the Trinity test.