Sentence examples for military collision from inspiring English sources

Presidents Jiang Zemin and George W. Bush developed cooperation on a counterterrorism campaign a few months after the military collision between Chinese and American air forces over the South China Sea in April 2001.

In 1981 the Sixth Fleet shot down two Libyan fighters over the Gulf of Sirte in the first military collision, in modern times, between the US and an Arab country.

One sign of this was an unusual outpouring of anti-Americanism in Kabul, the capital city, last month after jumpy American soldiers are said to have fired into a crowd protesting at a lethal collision between military and civilian vehicles.

"What Went Wrong?" explores the various aspects and consequences of this cultural collision -- military, social, cultural, governmental -- usually with the conclusion that even in those rare instances when Islam overcame its fundamental resistance to learning from the infidel, it was for a specific and limited purpose, generally military.

Fires, collisions with military and civilian vessels and dangerous reactor incidents both at sea and during refueling operations at dock have caused numerous preventable deaths.

In the mid-1950's, Army personnel first began seeing white fawns and decided to protect them even though the population had to be thinned every year to prevent collisions with military vehicles.

Russia, meanwhile, has continued its efforts to set up supposedly-autonomous republics in Eastern Ukraine, as it has done in the past with South Ossetia and Chechnya, as well as flying sorties into NATO airspace, sometimes only narrowly avoiding collisions with military and civilian planes and ships.

Military pilots also highlight the collision of two Sea King helicopters in March 2003 that killed seven servicemen.

The tragic deaths of Afghan civilians on Monday join a growing list of fatal accidents that are the inevitable product of the United States' global military reach and mission: a collision between Chinese and American military aircraft; the sinking of a Japanese trawler; and the severing of ski-lift cables in Italy, among others.

A member of the Navy Leap Frogs jump team was injured during what the military said was a midair collision during a maneuver.

One of his first tasks was to respond to the concerns of DC-3 pilots, who feared nighttime collisions with faster military planes whose pilots could not distinguish the steady taillights of the DC-3's from lights on the ground.