Sentence examples for on the sorties from inspiring English sources

Everyday events began to mean their opposite: dawn, for instance, lost its old poetical associations with hope and new beginnings and became instead that anxious moment when troops had to "stand-to" in the trenches and embark on the sorties that cost so many lives.

On top of the sorties by strike aircraft, there would also be a lot more sorties by heavy bombers than Libya saw, and a lot more cruise-missile salvoes.

There has been some discontent over the unsurprising access that Indian media were getting on the relief sorties being run by the Indian air force planes.

Its bombing campaign against targets in Iraq and Syria often use "precision guided munitions," according to DND releases on the latest sorties by Canadian CF-18s.

Georgia said Russian attack gunships conducted the sorties.

Between 1941 and 1943 Twiss served on catapult ships – where Hawker Hurricanes, on one-way sorties, were rocketed off merchant ships to intercept Luftwaffe long-range reconnaissance bombers.

When the people of Beijing peacefully stopped the tanks on their first sorties into the city, the consternation in the leadership compound was palpable.

He did fly on occasional sorties, the most famous involving the shooting down of a Lancaster bomber of No. 44 Squadron RAF piloted by Warrant Officer G. T. Rhodes in April 1942, during a rare RAF daylight raid on targets in Augsberg.

Apart from Sam Vimes, who is increasingly called out on diplomatic sorties, the Pratchett character who really gets around is Death.

"The joint task force is still supporting the civilians on the ground via sorties," he said in a telephone interview.

After the Italians retreated and surrendered, the Rhodesian squadron moved forward to Asmara on 6 April, whence it embarked on bombing sorties on the port of Massawa.