Sentence examples for tonkin from inspiring English sources

The Gulf of Tonkin, anti-German hysteria before the first world war, Eden's support for Suez from the Times and the newsreels – these were all democratic governments priming the public with forms of propaganda.

The first Tonkin Gulf attack in 1965 involved one, not two destroyers.

The French had fortified the valley, in north-west Tonkin on the border with Laos, so he had taken his troops into the mountains that encircled it.

We still deploy bombers, missiles and American troops on that border 60 years after our "policing" action.Just as Lyndon Johnson, pleading that he wanted no wider war, asked Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin resolution to step up the action in Vietnam, our president and your newspaper seem to think that the limits of intervention are America's choice to make.

The Vietnam war was long and tortuous, but even counting events only from the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964 to the withdrawal of American troops following the Paris peace accord in 1973 the conflict lasted some nine years.

Yet research suggests that before this plateau began to rise, 50m years ago, at least two of these streams, and possibly more, were one.The evidence, gathered by Peter Clift of Louisiana State University and Zheng Hongbo of Nanjing Normal University, comes from examination of the Red River delta in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam and the middle reaches of the Yangzi.

To this end, it was decided to set up a massive air-supplied firebase seven miles from the border with Laos, 300 miles away from the French zone of control in the Gulf of Tonkin.

This whole group of peoples originated most probably as a tribal population in the region of Tonkin and Canton.

Bernhard Schlink, meanwhile, will be questioned by The Independent's Boyd Tonkin on German feelings of complicity in his novel Guilt About the Past, the follow-up to The Reader, while playwright, actor and director Steven Berkoff will be in conversation with The Independent's John Walsh about the dramatic change of life that took him from reform school to the West End.

So it happened when Amanda Craig took to Facebook to announce the departure of The Independent's outgoing literary editor, Boyd Tonkin, from whom I will be taking the baton, from herein.

Derek Tonkin, of the Myanmar Network, a UK-based organisation that publishes papers on Burma, said he believed Ms Suu Kyi did not want to lose the support of the West.