Sentence examples for of a sortie from inspiring English sources

At times, he is the only one privy to the details of a sortie, because he designs them to suit the martyr he has handpicked.

This made the threat of a sortie against the British Fleet a serious problem.

Assigned to the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean in early 1942, Formidable covered the invasion of Diego Suarez in Vichy Madagascar in mid-1942 againsthehe possibility of a sortie by the Japanese into the Indian Ocean.

While she was operational the Allies had to keep a powerful force of warships with the British Home Fleet to guard against the possibility of a sortie against the Arctic convoys, and capital ships accompanied most convoys part of the way to the Soviet Union.

These included steaming out of the fjord and the appearance of preparations for a sortie into the North Sea.

I discovered the colour of adrenaline during a sortie with a Royal Navy helicopter crew when we were locked on by a surface-to-air missile as we flew close to the coast of Kuwait.

He added, "The result, I trust, presents more than the story of a ship or a sortie, but offers some insight into the agonizing dilemma of a misguided, courageous people who persisted in continuing a hopeless war".

Israel has just bombed a Syrian convoy of antiaircraft weapons in a sortie that also hit a weapons research center — with no response from Assad beyond a belated grumble that this was "destabilizing" (that process seems advanced already).

Rather, assisted by a sortie of good wizards, he flees his "Muggle" (read: "suburban") family home to hide once again in the Weasley family's funky bucolic house -- which of course was visibly set ablaze by Voldemort's Death Eaters (read: "non-vegetarians") in the previous film (though not in the previous book), only now, voilà, there it is apparently unscathed, very much sans explanation.

Raising the average bomb load of an IAF sortie from 100 kg per sortie to 743 kg per sortie, the B-17s are credited with propelling the Israeli Air Force into the realm of modern aerial warfare.

A description of a Spanish sortie into an opposition penalty area and what touchline reporter and girlfriend of Iker Casillas, Sara Carbonero, says to sound-check her microphone.