Sentence examples for force to sail from inspiring English sources

The crisis brought the two sides to the verge of conflict and prompted US President Bill Clinton to order a US carrier task force to sail through the Taiwan Strait in a warning to Beijing.

General Sullivan had by then already begun siege operations against Newport without French assistance, which prompted Clinton to order Grey's force to sail for Newport on August 26.

The cruisers and and destroyers and embarked nearly 2,500 troops and, at 03 00 the next morning, Calcutta ordered the evacuation force to sail.

They were forced to sail to Somalia, where they were taken on to land.

GBR protested, arguing it was forced to sail around submerged rocks and islands because of errors by the race committee.

They were forced to sail towards Somalia before being moved onto a container ship, the Kota Wajar, which was seized by the pirates earlier this month.

The Guardian has spoken to lawyers, judges and prosecutors involved in the smugglers' court cases; all confirm that boat drivers are frequently forced to sail at gunpoint.

Just before he arives one day, the Princess is portrayed writing a letter, in which she declares that she is forced to sail unexpectedly for Europe.

Shackleton and his men then camped on the ice until April 1916,when the floe broke up, and they were forced to sail in three lifeboats to Elephant Island.

The ships were forced to sail into the Israeli port of Ashdod, where all 27 passengers were handed over to the authorities.

There he discovered that the MacIsaacs were among the thousands of islanders and highlanders to have been thrown off their land in the 1850s during the Highland Clearances and forced to sail to America.