Sentence examples for repeated bombing from inspiring English sources

The two battleships were the subject of repeated bombing raids by the RAF; Gneisenau was hit several times during the raids, though she was ultimately repaired.

Reports from across the border tell of armed Bedouin tribesmen briefly kidnapping foreigners, heists occurring at tourist resorts and the repeated bombing of a pipeline that carries natural gas from Egypt to Israel.

In Zinjibar, along the country's southern coast, residents said warplanes attacked militant positions with repeated bombing runs beginning early Monday afternoon, a day after Islamists of uncertain affiliation took control, seizing banks and a central government compound.

Hitler's "final conquest of England" failed because British morale was too strong to break under repeated bombing and because the Royal Air Force downed so many Nazi planes that the Germans had to start attacking at night.

With the repeated bombing of his Tripoli compound, Colonel Qaddafi has become a fugitive in his own capital, so NATO and people in the rebel underground in Tripoli have said, forced to stay constantly on the move.

The repeated bombing of an Egyptian pipeline that provides natural gas to Israel has shown that energy infrastructure is an appealing and easy target for dissidents unhappy with the outcome of a revolution, and it is unlikely that the new Libyan government will please everybody.

They ordered the man to leave the lorry outside Strand Road police station, the largest Police Service of Northern Ireland base in the city and a target of repeated bomb attacks by anti-ceasefire republican groups.

Tirpitz was eventually provided with time-fuzed shells to combat the repeated Allied bombing attacks.

Following the repeated, ineffectual bombing attacks and the failed Chariot attack in October 1942, the British turned to the newly designed X Craft midget submarines.

In early 1942, after repeated British bombing raids, the two ships made a daylight dash up the English Channel from occupied France to Germany.

Because Cologne was a target of repeated and devastating bombing raids by the Allies in World War II, there are few historic properties on the market, and many buildings erected in the aftermath of the war were of poor quality.