Sentence examples for service convoy from inspiring English sources

THE United States Marine Corps, legendary for doing more with less, has used dual-purpose motorcycles for scouting, messenger service, convoy control and military police work.

Fortunately the journalists were kept in the carpark but the nervousness that any teenager would have had performing on stage in front of her parents cannot have been helped by the presence of a 20-vehicle secret service convoy and media vans outside.

Social e-commerce startup Goxip raised $5 million in January, and now the Hong Kong-based business has brought in more cash with a strategic $1.4 million investment from financial services company Convoy.

He saw convoy service in the darkest hours of WWII.

He oversaw the creation of an effective Canadian navy and Allied convoy service during World War II.

During convoy service in World War II, Empire Simba initially sailed between the United Kingdom and North America carrying cargos of scrap iron from the United States.

Veterans, including Mr Dempster, and politicians campaigned for many years for a specific medal to be created in recognition of service on the convoys.

Like the proverbial fleet of buses that turn up in convoy to service the weary waiting traveller, a bunch of life events presented themselves to Mark Wilson on Tuesday.

Tellingly, no team-mates waited for him – at 33rd overall, Péraud is no longer the leader of his Ag2R team – but he regained the peloton helped by the slipstream of the service cars in the convoy behind the bunch, and the tactic known as the "sticky bottle", where a rider receives a bidon from his team car and is towed along for a little while.

Although the Japanese ships often performed escort service for British troop convoys, Helgason does not report whether Sakaki was engaged in that duty when she was attacked.

Later on in his service, Khalas was riding in convoy behind a Humvee that was hit by an I.E.D. Grenades began sailing in from a nearby village.