Sentence examples for instead of artillery from inspiring English sources

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But at the least, it should exploit its strategic location and idyllic beaches, which Mr. Trump said could be lined with hotels and condos instead of artillery batteries.

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On the contrary, we are facing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's desire to modernize its tactical nuclear capability through the deployment of air-based cruise missiles in Europe, instead of nuclear artillery and ground-based missiles.

Once you reach Nellis Air Force Base, you can fast travel there instead of braving the artillery again.

Cao would not approve the use of flares because it could expose the airborne battalion's night defensive positions, and instead ordered 100 rounds of artillery to be fired at a rate of four shells per hour.

Instead of aiming all their artillery at the Tory massacre of public services, Corbyn and his team divert attention, raising contentious issues not on most voters' radar.

When wars subside, there are few choices for children who spent their youth behind artillery instead of school desks.

Buckley singles out poor cooperation between armoured and infantry units as one of the reasons for such high Allied losses; he is critical of the habit of tanks standing off from German positions and directing the infantry onto the objective like artillery, instead of moving forward to give close support.

Thus, commanding officers in the Americal Division were always urging their troops to "close with the enemy" instead of relying on helicopter or artillery support, and thereby increase their chances of capturing enemy weapons.

In the western part of the city, including the neighborhoods of Seif al-Dawla and Salaheddiin, Mr. Abdul Nour said that the Assad government was relying on artillery shelling instead of aircraft because Syrian Army forces were battling the opposition fighters block by block or building by building.

The 10th Light Division was unique in that it was the only division in the Army with three field artillery battalions instead of four.

Setting up camp along the mountainous border between the two nations, Anderson and a German colleague never encounter the refugees for whom they have travelled to "a wind-scoured field of stones on the other side of the earth"; instead, artillery fire begins, and the two find themselves embroiled in something resembling the brief high-altitude Kargil War, fought between India and Pakistan in 1999.

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