Sentence examples for offshore war from inspiring English sources

Soon what was billed as protection of innocent civilians from a massacre in Benghazi turned into NATO's offshore war against the Libyan government, which finally resulted in the overthrow of the Qaddafi regime and the killing of the dictator along with many of his supporters and probably a number of civilians.

But though they may be defensively ill-sited, they do provide South Korea with a useful balcony from which to spy on the North Korean coast, and during the war, offshore islands were frequently used as staging areas for partisan operations and raids.

A man walking his dog passed the gathering in Edgecliff referred to the offshore processing centres as "war camps" and said loudly, "Keep the camps open".

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Against a backdrop of public outcry, on June 27th Ms Gillard made a bid to end the corrosive political war over offshore-processing by suspending business in the lower house of parliament.Rob Oakeshott, an independent parliamentarian, put forward a bill to break the deadlock.

As the circumstances surrounding it emerged, it became clear the Milanese banker was at the centre of a web of sensationally improbable connections linking his bank, the Banco Ambrosiano, not just to Cosa Nostra, but also to the Vatican's financial arm, the Institute for the Works of Religion, or IOR; offshore tax havens; cold war politics; and an influential rogue Masonic lodge, known as P2.

Federal tax authorities say their ongoing war against undeclared offshore investment accounts will go far beyond the thousands of U.S. customers at Switzerland's UBS to those with accounts in other havens.

An unlikely combination of Navy ships fought in the Vietnam War; aircraft carriers offshore launched thousands of air strikes, while small gunboats of the "Brown-water navy" patrolled the rivers.

Stichman's legal group represents C-123 veterans as well as so-called Blue Water Navy veterans, like Longino, who believe they were exposed to Agent Orange while serving offshore of Vietnam during the war.

Offshore work is very exhausting.

But spending trillions on secret wars, secret trials, offshore prisons and forever prisoners?