Sentence examples for sortie to from inspiring English sources
Similarly, the title of Barbara Ehrenreich's latest sortie to skewer the skewed balances of power and privilege in America.
The overmatched Angolan, Herlander Coimbra, had the audacity to contest a Barkley sortie to the rim during an American rout to launch the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona.
Among his tasks was a late night sortie to Tesco to pick up gold medal winner Kirani James's favourite brand of shower gel.
"Supported by over 80 UK personnel, including air and ground crew, they have commenced their first training sortie, to familiarise themselves with the area.
The last time he was in the Northern Marianas, almost 60 years ago, he piloted the Enola Gay, a B-29, on its Aug. 6, 1945, sortie to Hiroshima, the world's first nuclear bomb attack.
After a sortie to Addis Ababa for last week's AU meeting, followed by brief visits to Nigeria and Burkina Faso to drum up support there, Mr Ouattara is back in the country.
In the wake of the result, Zac's younger brother, Ben, made a self-aware sortie on to Twitter to accuse the Richmond Park electorate of a "Brexit tantrum".
Senior officials say the new level of coordination has paid dividends in the form of initiatives like a centralized system for allocating drones, helicopters and airplanes that has allowed the 200 Special Operations aircraft to increase their sortie rate to 6,000 missions a month from 4,000.
The purpose of the sortie was to interrupt Allied resupply efforts to the Norwegians and to relieve the pressure on German troops fighting in Norway.
King Henry made his way north, and whilst at Durham sent Percy – now Lord Poynings – to raid Dumfrieshire; the sortie – "only to return with some 500 cattle" – of around 5,000 men failed, and he was captured whilst caught in a marsh following his father's defeat at the River Sark on 23 October.
Flying out of some distant bases raised the average sortie time to 5.4 hours, with some sorties lasting up to seven hours--refueling accomplished in the air.
