Sentence examples for force set out from inspiring English sources
Consequently, in late March, the central eradication force set out for Helmand without the promised Afghan National Army.
HONG KONG — In China's first modern deployment of battle-ready warships beyond the Pacific, a naval task force set out Friday to begin escorts and patrols in the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden, state news media reported.
The Bush administration, spurred by Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, set out to explore those lands and waters for resources and to roll back some of President Bill Clinton's environmental actions -- in particular, the rule, adopted in his final year in office, making nearly 60 million acres of national forest off limits to logging and other commercial uses.
Major Julio Chiaramonte, S-2 (intelligence officer) of the task force, set out with four men to silence the sniper.
On 5 January 1943, the convoy which consisted of five destroyers and five troop transports carrying Okabe's force set out for Lae from Rabaul.
In 1847, one year after the Bear Flag Revolt, a Mexican military force set out northwards to attack a smaller American force in the Los Angeles area.
On February 28th a new admissions code for schools in England and Wales came into force, setting out how a school may decide among the competing claims of children who apply.
From here, expeditionary forces set out for France in two world wars and, in 1904, the first military car was tested on its muddy tracks.
After bombings last fall in Moscow and other cities for which Russian authorities blamed Chechen separatists, Russian security forces set out to hunt down suspected terrorists, a reasonable response.
His step-by-step description of how the anti-Clinton forces set out to destroy the president is an astute, Congressional insider's take on political strategy.
The U.S. surge in Iraq was militarily successful because it was preceded by an Iraqi uprising sparked by a Sunni tribal leader, Sheik Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, who, using his own forces, set out to evict the pro-Al Qaeda thugs who had taken over Sunni towns and were imposing a fundamentalist lifestyle.
