Sentence examples for use of mortars from inspiring English sources

The report argues that, because of their inaccuracy, the very use of mortars constitutes a war crime.

In its previous campaigns in Swat, the army's use of mortars and aircraft killed scores of civilians.The army claims to have killed over 30 militants in Swat and 100 in Buner.

The extensive use of mortars and rockets suggested that a weakened insurgency had to shift tactics, perhaps because it was unable to get cars or suicide bombers through an intense security lockdown, with some checkpoints erected every few hundred yards.

The use of mortars with different strength classes coupled with fabrics made of carbon, basalt or PBO fibers has been investigated.

The outer rings of this defense are what the U.S. military calls disruption zones, where Islamic State fighters are expected to counter the Iraqi advance through the use of mortars and rockets, suicide bombers, road obstacles and car bombs.

Drywall construction is the application of walls without the use of mortar or plaster.

With flat tiles, the use of mortar is restricted to the convex or pointed tiles covering the hips and ridges.

One of the best-preserved Roman engineering works, it was built of some 24,000 dark-coloured Guadarrama granite blocks without the use of mortar.

After sufficient drying, the precipitate was crushed to fine powder with the use of mortar and pestle.

The use of mortar mixture for the study of the internal water curing of HPC will lead to more shrinkage than that of concrete because concrete has more aggregate, restraining the shrinkable pastes (Holt 2005).

The Pont du Gard was constructed largely without the use of mortar or clamps.