Sentence examples for through convoys from inspiring English sources

Having stood watch in the dark and the cold and travelled through convoys surrounded by foreign nationals, any of whom may want to attack us, I can attest to the difficulty of judgment calls.

The Canal du Nord was completed in 1965, and a bottleneck was removed on the Oise Lateral Canal with the building of two locks to accommodate through convoys to Paris.

Armoured earth-movers often captured from Iraqi bases plough through government lines, creating spaces through which convoys of armoured trucks laden with explosives can charge.

They were probably sent through army convoys: a far cry from the near-instant and global messages that modern-day soldiers are able to send to their families and friends, or even to complete strangers.

As such, the Brazilian unit's mission was to patrol for mines laid by German minelaying submarines and to make sure that convoys passing through would be safe.

The powerful blast ripped through the convoy and also damaged several civilian vehicles.

A bomb blast tore through the convoy carrying Hisham Barakat in the Egyptian capital's eastern suburb of Heliopolis.

A car bomb tore through the convoy of the provincial governor in Babil, killing two civilians and wounding eight, but missing the governor, Mohamed al-Messaoudi.

Our driver, Kevin, who has driven many tours, and showed immense skill in speeding through the convoy and avoiding riders, said he had never seen such enthusiasm.

In the southwestern province of Baluchistan, a roadside bomb ripped through a convoy of one of the country's biggest political parties, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, on Tuesday, killing four people.

CAIRO — A powerful bomb blasted through a convoy of cars carrying the interior minister along a residential street on Thursday, raising fears of a widely predicted turn toward terrorist violence by opponents of the military ouster of President Mohamed Morsi.