Sentence examples for push missiles from inspiring English sources

Missile launches require the bay doors to be open for less than a second, during which hydraulic arms push missiles clear of the aircraft; this is to reduce vulnerability to detection and to deploy missiles during high speed flight.

Now for a brief aside: While the Bush administration was pushing missile defense as its priority before Sept. 11, some of us were arguing otherwise.

Though not a member of the coalition, a Democratic union representing defense industry workers has also begun urging its 750,000 active and retired members to push for missile defense.

Even westward-leaning scholars here think the new push for missile defense in Washington reflects an underlying conviction, in the American military and a strong faction of the political elite, that the United States must better prepare for battle with China.

One is Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart of the Air Force, chief of the United States Space Command, who would reflect the administration's push for missile defense, new surveillance technologies and computerized combat systems.

When you ask China's president, Jiang Zemin, whether he is worried about relations with President Bush, in light of their rocky start and the Bush team's push for missile defense, Mr. Jiang gives a charmingly Chinese answer: I'm not worried at all -- I know the young man's parents.

Nuclear warheads also pushed the missile sites into top-secret status.

Mr. Pike added that television news programs had acted irresponsibly in pushing the missile thesis without bothering to establish basic facts that would have quickly cleared up the riddle.

The shift in tone may appear surprising after months of tension during which an American spy plane landed in China; the Bush Administration described China as a "competitor," expanded arms sales to Taiwan and pushed the missile shield; and strategists on each side are openly speaking about the "threat" posed by the other.

Dubbed 'Yoda' by Pentagon insiders who respect his vast experience, he is credited with being behind the Department of Defence's push on ballistic-missile defence.

Rumsfeld personally has a vested belief in weaponized space and the National Missile Defense system, having headed the commission that in 1999 helped to persuade the Clinton Administration to push ahead with missile defense.