Sentence examples for sea attack from inspiring English sources

"An air or sea attack by an enterprising opponent could have had a catastrophic effect", he said in Through Eyes of Blue, an anthology of RAF memoirs edited by Wing Cdr Anthony Ross (2002).

Senior military officials say the portion of a total force of about 250,000 troops needed to begin the "rolling start" of an air, land and sea attack could be in place within 30 days of Mr. Bush's order.

It was built as a storehouse by the South African military during the second world war when the island was a base to protect Cape Town, on the mainland five miles away, against possible German sea attack.

The Yugoslav forces mounted a sea attack on Dubrovnik, a Croatian city on the Adriatic, in October 1991, just four months after Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia, setting off a four-year war.

But its young men are in continual danger of being pressed into service -- not as soldiers (the loyalties of the Lumbees are too much in doubt for that) but as laborers on the earthworks at Fort Fisher, Wilmington's main point of defense against Yankee sea attack.

The sun and the sea attack the string in between.

The air off the sea attacks delicate equipment and rusts structures.

Four years later, Mumbai is still vulnerable to sea attacks, the newspaper The Asian Age reported Monday.

Separately, South Korea's military appeared to step back from one confrontational stance on Monday, canceling live-fire artillery drills on the island in the Yellow Sea attacked by the North a week ago.

The settlement's vulnerability to sea attacks led the Mamlūk sultan Baybars I (reigned 1260 77) to raze the town and fortifications, block access to the Damietta branch of the river, and erect a new town called Damietta 4 miles (6.4 km) inland on the present site.

To stage these sea attacks, it became apparent that planes would have to launch from the ocean.