Sentence examples for intensive bombardment from inspiring English sources

The quality of the wall's construction was shown in the final Ottoman siege, when repeated attacks, intensive bombardment (including the large bombard of Orban) and attempts at undermining it came to naught.

After a relatively quiet day during the elections, intensive bombardment resumed on Monday near Donetsk airport, controlled by Kiev.

He was sent to France, where, after an intensive bombardment, Moore suffered from the effects of gas shells.

The general plan, I knew, was for planes and big guns of the fleet to put on an intensive bombardment before the landing.

An attack on a settlers' school bus killed two and maimed several children, and Israel responded with its most intensive bombardment of Palestinian territory to date.

After America and Britain launched four days of intensive bombardment of Iraq in December, the French dropped out of the patrols altogether.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A humanitarian aid convoy was attacked in Syria on Monday after the Syrian military declared that a seven-day partial cease-fire was over and immediately began intensive bombardments in rebel-held areas of Aleppo, the divided city that has come to symbolize the ravages of the war.

Eventually, after an intensive Israeli bombardment of Beirut, the P.L.O left.

Maarat al-Numan, a key town on Syria's north-south road, which was seized by rebels last week, has come under intensive aerial bombardment.

In an extreme scenario, the regime could use chemical weapons, as Saddam Hussein did against the Kurds of Halabja in 1988, or it could launch an intensive aerial bombardment campaign, as Syria's Hafez al-Assad's did in Hama in 1982.

This becomes the setting for a series of vignettes of Gaza life loosely linked by the plight of a young man looking for a place to die: a somewhat redundant urge, as he is wryly reminded, in a blockaded territory suffering from dire water and electricity shortages, as well as intensive aerial bombardment.