Sentence examples for marines at this from inspiring English sources

In a speech to 2,500 marines at this sprawling base north of San Diego, Mr. Cheney defended President Bush's decision to single out those three countries as an "axis of evil," defining a new phase in Washington's war against terror.

Throughout the night Marines at this position supported by artillery defeated wave after wave of frontal Japanese attacks, some of which resulted in hand-to-hand fighting.

("Playing volleyball with the marines at the Embassy").

The marines at the gates of Uday's compound let us through.

Iran captured 15 British sailors and marines at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway.

Later, Mr. Bush told marines at the combat center in Twentynine Palms, Calif., that the new leaders had "awesome responsibilities".

All eligible marines at the main marine battalion in Sweden, the 2nd Amphibious Battalion, in service at the 1st marine regiment Berga, Sweden, were (following an information gathering at each company) asked to participate in the study.

The log does not say whether the marines left at this point but it records that they contacted the Iraqi police to take over the job of checking the car.

"Thank God," says an exultant marine at the end of this story of the first Iraq war, "we'll never have to come back to this shithole ever again!" Sam Mendes's gleamingly accomplished and controlled screen version of Anthony Swofford's military memoir allows its historical ironies to float some way up to the surface, before sinking enigmatically back down again.

The technique basically consists in determining an error budget at one wavelength around 510 nm, based on a first-guess estimation of the atmospheric path reflectance as if the atmosphere was of a maritime type, and on a reasonable hypothesis about the marine signal at this wavelength.

Statistical analysis of marine losses at this time suggests that the decrease in diversity was caused more by a sharp increase in extinctions than by a decrease in speciation.