Sentence examples for shore patrol from inspiring English sources
noun
A special unit of the military police of the U.S. Navy or the Royal Navy. Their duties are to police the seamen while they are on shore leave.
No shore patrol appears to enforce this discipline, nor do the police harass topless and gay sunbathers as they are said to have done in the old days.
When an American warship put in at Istanbul a few years ago, the vessel had scarcely docked when the colored cook went AWOL, and the shore patrol was advised to pick him up.
That soulful human teddy bear, Mark Ruffalo, is Donna's oh-so-sincere sweetheart, Ted, a law school dropout from Cleveland whom she meets while he's on hiatus working for the shore patrol at Lake Havasu.
When an American shore patrol drove up, "the deceased bent over to turn the motor off of the boat, but the C.F. shot him in the head as he bent down," the report said, using shorthand for coalition forces, in this case for members of the 101st Airborne Division.
By D. Brown, Francis Steegmuller, and Harold Ross The New Yorker, September 1 , 1934P. 12 When an American warship put in at Istanbul a few years ago, the vessel had scarcely docked when the colored cook went AWOL, and the shore patrol was advised to pick him up.
The New Yorker, September 1 , 1934P. 12 When an American warship put in at Istanbul a few years ago, the vessel had scarcely docked when the colored cook went AWOL, and the shore patrol was advised to pick him up.
As Mr. Bush pushes to expand Neighborhood Watch programs and the Senior Corps, he is asking the groups to become an early warning network for possible terrorist activity, not unlike the shore patrols citizens manned during World War II.
In 1841, a specific Dockyard division of the Metropolitan force was formed to assume responsibility for shore patrols within the docks, a detective department was formed in 1842, and in 1865, 'J' division was established in Bethnal Green.
With its millions of dollars of high-tech communications and surveillance equipment, the cutter is designed to go far beyond traditional agency missions like drug interdiction and off-shore patrols.
So many of the definitive statements of what it means to be British, or indeed English – we'll set the Scots to one side, and the Irish, too, of course – come to rest on the distant, highly patrolled shore of cultural exceptionalism.
The resulting Joint Action statement was vague regarding Air Corps actions over water but "left the door open" for the Navy's interpretation of its own authority, which was that the shore-based coastal patrol mission was its prerogative.
