You could make the case that the dominance of those two sides in that period is what made the Premier League what it is today: a bunch of hostile gunboats floating around in a dirty, iridescent ocean of oil money.
The new arrangements allow significantly stricter security measures by both the Americans and local governments, including the posting of armed gunboats around ships stopping in foreign ports under arrangements dependent on the local circumstances.
Turn the gunboats around.
The aircraft carrier America and its task force were on their way to the Indian Ocean from Monday to Saturday, with great fanfare, to practice some gunboat diplomacy, but then abruptly turned around and came home with no explanation, then or subsequently.
We left at night, journeying in a gunboat along the eastern coast and around the top of the island.
At around 12 20, the Russian gunboat arrived with a pair of destroyers; she was intended to use her long-range guns to drive off Emden.
Mud Island was an ugly wart on the Memphis downtown shoreline ever since the two-mile-long, half-mile-wide river bar started forming, reportedly around a sunken Union gunboat, in the 1860s.
Rostislav, captained by Kazimierz Porębski, was the "designated gunboat" while other Russian battleships formed a defensive screen around her. On November 6 she fired 251 shells at the port of Zonguldak, reducing it to rubble.
More important, with a huge budget deficit and massive national debt, the United States needs to cut back on the number of warships deployed around the world for non-defense purposes -- that is, for expensive gunboat diplomacy.
, which are guarded by gunboat.
