Sentence examples for naval parade from inspiring English sources

In its latest symbolic gesture of support for Japan, the US decided not to send a warship to participate in a Chinese naval parade as part of the Western Pacific Naval Symposium because the Japanese were not invited.

Under chandeliers decorated with stag antlers — and with the entire Lauren family in their ritual positions — walked a naval parade: models wearing jaunty berets with narrowed-down sailor pants, smart duffel jackets and white shirts with full sleeves that had just the Lauren mix of fashion pace and grace.

A half-million visitors came to New York in 1909 to watch a spectacular naval parade that included a model of Hudson's boat, de Halve Maen (the Half Moon), along with a flotilla of floats portraying an encyclopedic array of Americana, from the Statue of Liberty to Rip Van Winkle, from precolonial Indian ceremonies to the Dutch purchase of Manhattan for a reported 60 guilders.

A naval parade is also being held in the port of Odessa.

"I read the other day an account of the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria, and the naval march parade that passed in front of her, and it makes me melancholy to think today Britain has only one aircraft carrier, which it shares with France.

A sequined marching band the size of Luxembourg's entire naval force parades onto the pitch.

At the end of the day-long commemorations, Mr Hollande reviewed a naval and airborne parade from the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, in the presence of the leaders of 15 African states.

The Segway also gave us an elevated perch from which to view our surroundings, the whitewashed plantation-style homes, a gazebo extending out into the water from the development's new downtown and an oversize fountain that was once a centerpiece of the naval base's parade grounds.

Everyone seemed to want to relax a little, and that weekend, Goodrich led the SATC and naval units in a parade up New York's Fifth Avenue.

Russian has paraded it naval might in the Mediterranean, inviting reporters aboard a destroyer cruising off Syria's coast in scenes reminiscent of the Soviet era.

The British empire was outwardly at its most confident in 1897 - the queen's 60 years on the throne simply provided a good excuse for imperial celebration - but beneath all the parades and naval reviews there lurked worries about hubris and how long the show could last, hence Kipling's diamond jubilee poem Recessional ("Lo, all our pomp of yesterday, / Is one with Nineveh and Tyre").