Sentence examples for for overflights from inspiring English sources

The Bush administration is considering a requirement that names be checked for overflights, but some officials said this would raise privacy issues.

In return the leaders of the Arab world, including Syria (which he is rightly wooing), should be bullied into offering Israel tokens of good faith, such as permission for overflights and reciprocal commercial offices.

A senior Air Force officer said late this week that the Bush administration was still negotiating for all the support for overflights and for basing aircraft it would like in the region.

Advance security teams orchestrating every last detail have combed Brussels already, checking the sewers and the major hospitals, while American military helicopters were last week given the green light for overflights.

But now consider this: suppose that the U.S. cut off aid to Egypt's military, as required by U.S. law, and suppose that in retaliation the Egyptian military said to the Pentagon, "OK, big boy, from now on you have to give us the same notice for overflights as you give everybody else, and your warships have to wait in line at Suez just like all the other ships".

April 16 , 20148.20pm BST For Slavyansk residents for whom overflights by Ukrainian military aircraft seemed to signal the imminent arrival of Ukrainian ground troops, the arrival Wednesday of combat vehicles bearing pro-Russian militia members instead made for a moment of confusion.

"We need them for the Suez Canal, we need them for the peace treaty with Israel, we need them for the overflights, and we need them for the continued fight against violent extremists who are as much of a threat to Egypt's transition to democracy as they are to American interests," said Gen. James N. Mattis, who retired this year as head of the military's Central Command.

We stressed the number of sorties and timeframe envisaged under this concept of operations, but we should not expect to receive blanket clearance for all overflights.

Not Egypt, which offers near-automatic approval for military overflights, to resupply the war effort in Afghanistan or to carry out counterterrorism operations in the Middle East, Southwest Asia or the Horn of Africa.

With the advent of commercial flight, the Grand Canyon has been a popular site for aircraft overflights.

Now, surely no-one would dispute that if you are the Pentagon, "near-automatic approval for military overflights" is probably something you really appreciate.