Sentence examples for maritime force from inspiring English sources

But the navy and air force will get the hardware to build what the paper calls a "heavier and more potent maritime force".

Voea Savea is part of the tiny Tongan Maritime Force, which has a fleet of just half a dozen vessels and 130 sailors.

Today, American and British planes enforce no-flight zones over 40percentt of his country and a maritime force prevents weapons from reaching Iraq by sea.

On March 4, Bahrain's navy took command of Combined Task Force CTFF) 152, the coalition maritime force that patrols the central and southern Arabian Gulf.

Mr. Hamada said that a new law would have to be passed to authorize the maritime force to pursue the anti-piracy mission off Somalia.

The navy insists that it is already at or near the minimum needed to be a coherent maritime force (it already has less than a tenth of the number of ships it boasted in 1945).

In Washington, the growing power of China's maritime forces is being closely watched.

"They could be used for tracking ships and providing intelligence to the other maritime forces.

In 2002 it deployed maritime forces to the Arabian Sea to interdict terrorists, and sent troops to Afghanistan under American command.

Traditionally, the Revolutionary Guards maritime forces have operated in a far more hostile manner than the regular Iranian Navy.

The maritime forces were given the name Royal Navy by Charles II, although the military forces had come under control of Parliament during the English Civil Wars (1642 51).