Sentence examples for to convoy from inspiring English sources
But when the UN gives monthly updates to the security council, it routinely leads with figures relating to convoy approvals.
When Germany adopted unrestricted submarine warfare in February 1917, shipping losses soon forced the diversion of destroyers from fleet duty to convoy protection and antisubmarine warfare.
The latter, however, declined to leave his officers and men at a time when the ship was almost in a sinking condition, and directed Franklin to convoy him to England.
The Dutch navy, sorely neglected for more than a half century, was utterly unprepared to battle the powerful British fleet, and the Dutch fleet's attempts to convoy their merchantmen brought only disaster.
With no public or Congressional oversight, the Pentagon has paid billions of dollars to companies that now have as many as 20,000 employees carrying out military functions ranging from logistics and troop training to convoy escort and interrogations.
Some 60 vessels remained, and posed a threat to convoys.
In November she provided cover to Convoys RA 54A, JW 54A and JW 54B.
Hogan told us to get to the convoy; the Americans wanted to pull out right away.
The ship was transferred to the 22nd Destroyer Flotilla in February and continued to escort convoys to Malta.
As a Senate report released this summer shows, such companies will even pay insurgents to attack convoys to justify their services.
