Sentence examples for main ammunition from inspiring English sources

Apart from his weakness for a Christmas-card England, the other main ammunition of Curtis detractors is a fondness for giving his characters astonishing reversals of fortune.

The town was given its explosive name when it was created in 1917 to service one of the US's main ammunition plants.

He has also resisted the temptation to point out in public that American companies such as Rockwell Collins and United Technologies, rather than European firms, provided him with the main ammunition used to shoot down the merger.

But the BBC has held plenty back for September, while the second series of Downton Abbey, about lives and loves above and below stairs in a big house during the First World War, is the main ammunition in ITV's autumn barrage.

First, she demonstrates that in these naturalist novels the main ammunition for such battles is the body and its energies.

"The main ammunition store in Miramas, from which explosives and detonators were stolen this weekend".

She returned on the 14th and 15th, after having restocked her main battery ammunition, to fire another 370 rounds.

On 20 21 November, the ship supported German troops on the Sworbe Peninsula by firing around 500 rounds of main battery ammunition.

At that point, Prinz Eugen had expended her main battery ammunition, and critical munition shortages forced the ship to remain in port until 10 March, when she bombarded Soviet forces around Gotenhafen, Danzig, and Hela.

We'll never know whether there would still have been problems in health if the budget had been given more protection, but it would certainly have removed the main source of ammunition from the Conservatives, and a Prime Minister who is making it a central part of his strategy to attack Labour.

The main guns carried ammunition for ninety shots and had an approximate gun-life of 250 280 shots.