Sentence examples for sorties on from inspiring English sources

The USAAF history notes eleven cities were targeted with leaflets on July 27, but Hiroshima was not one of them, and there were no leaflet sorties on July 30.

NATO warplanes flew 144 sorties on Saturday, 42 of them airstrikes, according to the operational reports.

It is a performance worthy of George Orwell.Mr Judt's sorties on religion, politics and economics are less judicious and drip with contempt for modern politicians.

Even an old warhorse, the Su-25 Frogfoot plane which let loose unguided bombs in 1,600 sorties on rebel-held Syrian townships, is selling well.

A NATO spokesman said on Wednesday that the alliance had conducted more than 120 sorties on Monday and Tuesday, bringing the total number of strike sorties since the air war began in March to 2,414.

Prudent use of worst-case scenarios may impose unacceptable constraints on shielding mass for spacecraft or habitats, tours of duty of crews on Space Station, and on the radius and duration of sorties on planetary surfaces.

Coalition aircraft flew about 80 sorties over Libya on Monday, up from 60 sorties one day earlier.

At a hitherto unknown American helicopter base at Pul-i-Kandahar, on the desert floor about 20 miles west of Kabul, reporters watched as up to 15 Chinook transport helicopters, as well as Apache and Cobra attack craft, took off in clouds of dust on sorties of about 50 miles south to Shah-i-Kot.

"It's not sharing any secret to note that the longer distances required on sorties to northern Syria from the Gulf as opposed to Incirlik puts an added strain on pilots, airframes, and maintenance crews.

Those options will include variations of a lunar program -- the committee appears to prefer to see astronauts making sorties to various locations on the moon rather than concentrating on a single outpost at the moon's pole, which is the current plan.

By NATO's telling during the war, and in statements since sorties ended on Oct. 31, the alliance-led operation was nearly flawless — a model air war that used high technology, meticulous planning and restraint to protect civilians from Colonel Qaddafi's troops, which was the alliance's mandate.