Sentence examples for foreign expeditions from inspiring English sources

Only good wood was lacking, and the need for it led the Egyptians to undertake foreign expeditions to Lebanon, to Somalia, and, through intermediaries, to tropical Africa.

Authorities in poverty-stricken Nepal are sensitive to charges that too many permits for climbing mountains are sold to foreign expeditions.

Kemp said all foreign expeditions were ordered on Saturday to halt work and leave.

One foreign expedition had communications cables cut during the night.

It would be ironic if the Constitution was interpreted to bar use of a drone to kill a person while justifying a large foreign expedition to capture the same person.

The ascents mark the return of foreign climbing expeditions to Everest's summit following two seasons marked by tragedies on the mountain.

While sensibly ramping down in Iraq, he has paid lip service to the illusion that foreign military expeditions dressed in nation-building narratives are a sustainable path to peace and security.

"That means, unfortunately, that we won't be in a good position to spot them expanding the program through foreign shopping expeditions, and that policies based on export controls, sanctions and interdiction won't get much traction, either," said Joshua Pollack, one of the experts presenting the findings this week.

"There is no control, nobody knows what is going out of the country, nobody know what is being extracted or exhumed, it is impossible to know … " He is suspicious of foreign paleontological expeditions which he claims are reluctant to divulge fully their activities and says the state makes it harder to operate legitimately than otherwise.

But just as predominantly coastal Brazilians tend to ignore the Amazon until someone else turns up there, Canadians focus on their vast backyard when outsiders seem to be interfering: proposing "internationalization" of the Arctic, proposing United Nations supervision of Native populations, or sending well-financed foreign scientific expeditions.

It is the second time in 20 years that a foreign military expedition has invaded Albania.