'sortie' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use 'sortie' to refer to an instance of a military unit making an assault, or a sudden emergence from a place. For example: "The platoon commander ordered a sortie out of the bunker."
She explained that the sortie began with military precision around 9pm on Monday, that all of those who attacked their homes were wearing surgical gloves, masks and combat uniforms, that they arrived with wheelie bins stuffed with bricks, bottles and other missiles, and that the entire attack appeared to be well organised.
What makes the verbal sortie on the Vatican so groundbreaking however is that it is a Fine Gael taoiseach, whose political base lies in the conservative west of Ireland, who has led from the front.
This is lesbian life painted so that straight people can understand it: the traumatic coming-out scenes at school, the nervous sortie into the provincial lesbian bar (I have travelled the dyke world, by the way, and this Sapphic Studio 54 only exists in a horny chick's dreams).
Kim Jong Il came out to the Pyongyang airport to greet him, a rare sortie for North Korea's dictator even when he was less frail.
"Pyramid One-One are you on this frequency?" bellows another American.Unplug the radio and from up here, aboard a US Air Force refuelling sortie, Afghanistan's border with Pakistan looks calm.But NATO air traffic tells a different story.
The Burkinabe army has said that the plane crashed about 50km from the border with Burkina Faso.TWO French fighter jets screamed across northern Mali on Thursday not in pursuit of terrorists, but on a far more tragic sortie.
It will be stealthy, subsonic, have a range of around 6,000 miles (9,650km) and be able to carry a big enough payload to destroy many targets during a single sortie.
In one of the IAF's first triumphs, in 1949, he led a sortie that ironically shot down five RAF Spitfires reconnoitering the Egypt-Israel border.
This had raised hackles about Indonesian sovereignty how would he like it if a foreign state publicly offered to pay Australians to spy on each other?Mr Abbott's supporters, however, were able to portray his maiden sortie as something of a triumph.
"Students in India are mostly treated like shit," said one.Croak for the cameraWith each sortie, the team's spirits rose.
Well-timed, well-armed peacekeeping missions, such as Britain's sortie into Sierra Leone, can cost hundreds of millions.
