Sentence examples for they were embarked from inspiring English sources

The reason German forces did not befriend the non-Russian minorities and assist the hungry peasantry in the Soviet Union was that they were embarked on a war of racial colonization that was meant to kill tens of millions of Jews and Slavs.

The three men had been under no illusions about the scale of the challenge on which they were embarked: to smuggle Tibet's most prominent reincarnate lama out of a heavily guarded monastery, run for a border that at its closest point was some 200 miles away, cross that border unnoticed and somehow reach Dharamsala in northern India, the exile home of the Dalai Lama.

Everyone did as he was directed and there was not a murmur or cry amongst them until the ship made her final plunge – all received their orders and carried them out as if they were embarking instead of going to the bottom – I never saw any embarkation conducted with so little noise or confusion.

It felt great: they were embarking on a new and exciting chapter – and so was I.

We had them already before they were embarking on disproportionate force in Georgia.

Now, as the engagement on which they thought they were embarking stalls, their personal animosities take over.

The operation was kept secret from all but a few high-ranking officers, with others initially being told that they were embarking on an exercise.

Its 18th-century founders had no doubt that they were embarking on a daring experiment inspired by the highest ideals of the Enlightenment.

WHEN Gerald and Beatrice Barad placed four tiny cactuses on their bright Manhattan windowsill 54 years ago, they had little inkling of the adventure they were embarking upon.

Their 1959 commission for the Economist offices, off St James's Street in central London, signalled that they were embarking upon serious construction.

When they turn together and head out the door to a waiting plane, we see their faces, smiling and hopeful, as if they were embarking on a great voyage of discovery.