Sentence examples for sorties to from inspiring English sources

Our bathing suits were reserved for daring midnight sorties to the whirlpool.

Then there were all those relationship-building sorties to places like Tunisia, Dubai, New Zealand and, oh, New York.

When delegates heard his gritty voice say 'comrades' on his sorties to the rostrum, they listened intently.

The African Union proposal had no immediate impact on NATO, which said air sorties to protect civilians would continue.

Instead, the United States responded with an enormous airlift, totalling 277,264 sorties, to keep western Berlin supplied with food, fuel, and medicine.

To date, the Pakistani army has flown 635 helicopter sorties to the affected area, dropping off 153 tons of food items and 438 cartons of medicines".

Even fully participating members have failed to train enough targeting specialists to keep all of their planes flying sorties or to buy enough munitions to sustain a bombing campaign much beyond the present 11 weeks.

Seven months later, the alliance had destroyed more than 5,900 military targets by means of roughly 9,700 strike sorties, according to its data, helping to dismantle the pro-Qaddafi military and militias.

The clause that limited the spraying of Corexit to "rare occasions" was strict: sorties had to be approved by a senior E.P.A. official, and formal estimates had to be made of the size and composition of slicks.

That eBay has already survived earlier sorties on to its turf, not least by the likes of Microsoft and Yahoo!, is a testament to the strength of its approach.Kicking tyresSo far, eBay's users have been dictating the strategy.

For example, all sorties had to be flown over Soviet-controlled territory and required the express permission of the 3rd Air Army staff to fly.