Sentence examples for in such a raid from inspiring English sources

The prospect of being caught in such a raid is said to have helped persuade some Fujianese to seek their fortunes outside the kitchen.Since the disaster, Chinese migrants are thought to have moved away from north-west England: there were none among the cocklers who returned to the sands near Hest Bank on February 10th.

It came not just to a police officer and his brother and family in Paktia Province, but to a "wealthy businessman with construction and security contracts with the nearby American base at Shindand airport" who, along with up to 76 members of his extended family, was slaughtered in such a raid on the village of Azizabad in Herat Province in August 2008.

While exiles here had kept vigil in anticipation of such a raid for months, the timing -- the morning after Good Friday and the day before Easter in a heavily Roman Catholic community -- and the violent, sudden nature of it, left them in as much disbelief as rage.

In order to prevent such a raid, Rear Admiral Paolo Thaon di Revel was ordered to clear the harbor of Beirut of what Ottoman naval vessels he might find there.

(There's some lovely footage of just such a raid in 1962 at http://tiny.cc/ 6kvql – it's around the 4 50 mark).

It was believed to be the first time that American law enforcement and intelligence officials had conducted such a raid in another country since the Bush administration began its campaign against terror.

Although Iraq's American occupiers have worked hard in recent months to prevent such a raid, Turkey's most senior general said that the Americans had not only agreed to the air strikes but had also provided the necessary intelligence.If this is true, it may be the result of a delicate balancing act.

As a result, the Home Fleet's aircraft carriers were considered the best means of attacking Kaafjord, and the Admiralty directed the fleet to begin planning such a raid in late 1943.

They considered that such a raid would result in high casualties among the attacking troops and would not be fast enough to capture the Würzburg radar before it was destroyed by the Germans.

That Mr Osborne is even thinking about such a raid is proof of the difficult position he finds himself in.

Come to that, does anyone believe that if 'culture' and 'sport' had not been lumped together into a single government department, it would have been conceivable to raid the arts budget in such a shameless way?