Sentence examples for greater expedition from inspiring English sources

The White House should nominate more promptly, but the Senate must confirm with much greater expedition.

This may be the greatest expedition of our time.

It was this confused world that Louis II wished to dominate in his great expedition of 867 871, but he failed.

On Sept. 7, 1921, at Upernavik, he began the great expedition during which he planned to visit every Eskimo tribe from Greenland to the Bering Strait.

To recover Helen, the Greeks launched a great expedition under the overall command of Menelaus's brother, Agamemnon, king of Árgos or Mycenae.

In 415 Athens turned to the third and most aggressive operation of the period, the great expedition against Sicily of 415 413, better known as the Sicilian disaster.

Mr Bonner, and many other colonial folk throughout Voss's great expedition, try to fix Laura's mind on the practical benefits of protein-rich Australian society.

Timur set out before the end of 1399 on his last great expedition, in order to punish the Mamlūk sultan of Egypt and the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I for their seizures of certain of his territories.

Today's Portuguese have a chance of a double celebration: as well as the anniversary of Magellan's great expedition, they might be able to toast the end of their voyage to raise their living standards to the European average.

The series titled "Maria's Great Expedition" dramatizes the life of Ms. Fernández's grandmother, who left Mexico at 14, worked as a fruit picker and a maid and eventually settled in California.

The prince asked the then culture secretary Tessa Jowell to bend the rules and supply funding to overseas heritage projects, including the Antarctic huts used by Scott and Shackleton on their great expedition in the early 20th century.