Sentence examples for tour of war from inspiring English sources
The audience nurtured and cherished in village halls and tiny arts centres yesterday is the audience for the NT's sellout tour of War Horse today.
WASHINGTON — When President Obama nominates Chuck Hagel, the maverick Republican and former senator from Nebraska, to be his next secretary of defense, he will be turning to a trusted ally whose willingness to defy party loyalty and conventional wisdom won his admiration both in the Senate and on a 2008 tour of war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But it's not pro-Obama bias in the news media that's driving the effusion of coverage, it's the news: Mr. Obama's weeklong tour of war zones and foreign capitals is noteworthy because it is so unusual to see a presidential candidate act so presidential overseas.
Sometimes, standing at the wheel, where bouquets of plastic flowers adorn the dashboard, he would talk to his second-oldest son, Bo — a soldier, he says, who has done two tours of war and is now preparing for a third.
Short tours of war zone duty by the officers enhanced their military careers.
Tomorrow and Sunday at 2 p.m., "Independence Weekend Civil War New York," with a tour of Civil War sites in Lower Manhattan, including a Confederate prison camp and the site of the 1863 draft riots.
The tour production of "War Brides" for the variety stage had been popular and well received, particularly by women's organizations, presumably just the encouragement independent producer Lewis J. Selznick needed to make his highly profitable film version under the direction of Herbert Brenon.
During his tour of the war zone, Rumsfeld offered the Army's top job to Franks.
More recently, he has starred in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The Sound of Music and a UK tour of The War of the Worlds.
(Among the fine videos here is a too-brief tour of World War II harbor sites with the historian Kenneth T. Jackson, a consultant for the exhibition).
In 2007, my mom and I once again found ourselves together on a battlefield, although in this instance the circumstances were peaceful and the location was Fredericksburg, Va., on a tour of Civil War sites.
