Sentence examples for of overflights from inspiring English sources

He felt the question of overflights should be considered in the frame work of general disarmament as was originally planned for the conference.

"The survivability of this town is at stake," said Mr. Arnold, 79, arguing that property values would collapse because of overflights.

After announcing the restoration of overflights, Nirupama Rao, spokeswoman for India's ministry of external affairs, said: "There has been some fall in infiltration.

Vice-President Dick Cheney supported the idea of overflights, the former senior intelligence official said, because "it would stick it to Syria and show that we're serious about Iran".

After Cuba responded to a provocative campaign of overflights by exiles by shooting down two light aircraft in international airspace, killing their four crew, Congress in 1996 approved a law known as Helms-Burton, which attempted to extend the embargo to foreign companies and barred the administration from supporting Cuba's return to the IMF.

The act also called for studying the impacts of overflight noise on other parks.

In return, America has proclaimed its own "national interest", citing the importance of the freedom of navigation and of overflight.

It is the importance of the freedom of navigation and of overflight that has given America its pretext for louder involvement.

"As they do now, Australian vessels and aircraft will continue to exercise rights under international law to freedom of navigation and freedom of overflight," she said.

But he asserted that the American plane, by spying in that region, had abused the "freedom of overflight" and had "threatened China's security".

Under international law, foreign states enjoy the right of overflight in the airspace superjacent to a coastal state's 200-mile exclusive economic zone, but they must have "due regard" for the rights and duties of the coastal state.