Sentence examples for to convoys from inspiring English sources

Some casualties were accidentally caused by air strikes, but many also are said to involve British troops firing on unarmed drivers or motorcyclists who come "too close" to convoys or patrols.

From this city of 10 million people in the middle of China, all roads leading west have been closed — except to convoys carrying soldiers and riot police officers to subdue Tibetan antigovernment protests.

Incident by incident, the reports resemble a police blotter of the myriad ways Afghan civilians were killed — not just in airstrikes but in ones and twos — in shootings on the roads or in the villages, in misunderstandings or in a cross-fire, or in chaotic moments when Afghan drivers ventured too close to convoys and checkpoints.

One key revelation was of the way that hundreds of Afghan civilians were being killed by US and UK soldiers or their allies, sometimes in air-strikes by not-so-smart "smart bombs", and sometimes by jittery troops shooting up drivers who might have simply come too close to convoys.

Examples in Iraq range from billing for soldiers' meals that were never cooked or served to convoys shipping "sailboat fuel" (as Halliburton -KBR truck drivers laughingly termed charging the government for moving empty pallets from site to site).

Some 60 vessels remained, and posed a threat to convoys.

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.

Muslim communities had been running massive fund-raising drives to send convoys to refugee camps on the border with Turkey.

But when the UN gives monthly updates to the security council, it routinely leads with figures relating to convoy approvals.

It is time to convoy.