Sentence examples for unleashed missiles from inspiring English sources

When President Reagan unleashed missiles and warplanes against Libya in 1986, it was to take revenge on Qaddafi for his complicity in the bombing of a discotheque in West Berlin, where two American servicemen (and one Turkish citizen) had died, and dozens were injured.

Furthermore, if we attack Iraq, Baghdad will unleash missiles on Israel, causing the loss of many lives.

The drones, operated by the C.I.A., fly overhead sometimes four at a time, emitting a beelike hum virtually 24 hours a day, observing and tracking targets, then unleashing missiles on their quarry, they said.

They followed the earlier walls, with a narrow gap between them in the west and south which was turned into a gallery from which defenders could unleash missiles.

As well as offering some protection for those inside, a siege tower could overlook the interior of a castle, giving bowmen an advantageous position from which to unleash missiles.

An article on the front page of the New York Times recently captured this perspective, however inadvertently, when, speaking of the CIA's aerial war over Pakistan's tribal borderlands, it described the Agency's unmanned drones as "observing and tracking targets, then unleashing missiles on their quarry".

ONE day in March an American drone circled above Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area, zeroed in on a gathering of village men, some of whom were armed, and unleashed three missiles in quick succession.

Seeing no teammate keeping up with her, she unleashed a missile of a shot on goal.

An Israeli helicopter unleashed a missile at the gunman, but he continued to return fire until he was killed by ground troops, Major Feingold said.

A few days before the event, the Archbishop of Paris unleashed a missile: the telethon is fine, he said, except when it raises money for the destruction of human embryos (ie, for stem-cell research).

American drones would circle their homes all day before unleashing Hellfire missiles, often in the dark hours between midnight and dawn.