Sentence examples for sorties from the from inspiring English sources

An American carrier battle group flew sorties from the Persian Gulf.

The foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, said air sorties from the UK to northern Iraq would run for the "foreseeable future" with France also agreeing humanitarian assistance.

Following training he was posted to fly the Harrier in Germany, Belize and the Falklands, as well as flying sorties from the carrier HMS Illustrious.

The waters off Hainan, near the Yalin navy base, where China maintains its nuclear submarine fleet, are notoriously shallow, scarcely 10 metres deep in many places, making it easy to spot submarines on their sorties from the island.

The besieged garrison made several sorties from the Saint Paul's Gate, which were repulsed by the insurgent peasants.

Rommel's response was to strengthen the eastern side of his cordon around Tobruk as a precaution against sorties from the garrison, and to order Kampfgruppe von Herff to adopt a more aggressive posture.

Now, over the past week or so, we have public sorties from Dan Tehan, the chairman of joint parliamentary committee on intelligence and security, and the current immigration minister, Peter Dutton, who on Thursday told the Australian newspaper that second-generation Australians involved in terrorism also faced the prospect of being denuded of their citizenship, along with dual nationals.

About 70 separate sorties flew from the Enterprise in the first round of combat on Sunday and today, with about a dozen F-14's and F-18's actually taking part in the strikes on targets in Afghanistan, commanders said.

Waters flew 95 sorties from Noemfoor, and later from the air bases at Morotai and Tarakan, in Borneo.

Late sorties from local rider Josh Edmondson and the Wirral racer Steve Cummings apart, the rest of the main group were merely hanging on.

After diplomatic efforts failed, the Navy was instrumental in the opening phases of the 1991 Gulf War with Iraq; the ships of the navy launched hundreds of Tomahawk II cruise missiles and naval aircraft flew sorties from six carriers in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea.