Sentence examples for naval route from inspiring English sources

IDI noted that it was difficult to determine: smugglers tend to prefer the naval route -- as there are fewer obstacles -- but the last segment almost always occurred overland.

After the Spanish-American war in 1898 gave it territories and protectorates from Cuba to the Philippines, the United States needed a naval route between Atlantic and Pacific.The gains were swift.

As part of the Southern Army the Aden Brigade was stationed in the Aden Protectorate on the strategically important naval route from Europe to India, where there was limited fighting.

Navy commander Rear Adm Habibollah Sayyari told state media the move was made with the aim of "safeguarding naval routes for vessels in the region".

On Wednesday, Iran said it was sending two warships to the Gulf of Aden with the aim of "safeguarding naval routes".

Navy commander Rear Adm Habibollah Sayyari was quoted as saying by state-run Press TV that a destroyer and another ship would be deployed off Yemen as part of an anti-piracy campaign "safeguarding naval routes for vessels in the region".

But Iran has claimed the naval destroyers are part of an anti-piracy effort to "safeguard naval routes for vessels in the region".

Portugal went on to dominate the naval trading routes through much of the 16th century.

In the spring of 1972, President Richard Nixon signed off on Operation Pocket Money, a plan to deploy 11,000 sea mines off the coast of North Vietnam to cut off naval supply routes to the region.

Israel found the weapons on board a merchant ship intercepted by its naval forces en route from Turkey to Egypt.

"Earlier today, we lost contact with two small US naval craft en route from Kuwait to Bahrain," the official said.