Sentence examples for use of rockets from inspiring English sources

The news of the successful use of rockets spread through Europe.

Since then, the rocket fire has decreased sharply, but Hamas has not renounced the use of rockets.

This thwarted attempt suggests a change in Hamas strategy — from the use of rockets to the use of tunnels.

The human rights group singled out what it called the "unprecedented" scale and intensity of the Israeli onslaught and the "unlawful" Palestinian use of rockets against Israeli civilians.

Nevertheless, the use of rockets seems to have waned, and for the nxt 100 years their employment in military campaigns appears to have been sporadic.

At the Battle of Bladensburg (August 24) the use of rockets assisted British forces to turn the flank of the American troops defending Washington, D.C.

The use of rocket engines for aircraft propulsion opened a new realm of flight to the aeronautical engineer.

Hyder Ali's son, Tippu Sultan, continued to develop and expand the use of rocket weapons, reportedly increasing the number of rocket troops from 1,200 to a corps of 5,000.

World War I actually saw little use of rocket weapons, despite successful French incendiary antiballoon rockets and a German trench-war technique by which a grappling hook was thrown over enemy barbed wire by a rocket with a line attached.

The head of Griffith Observatory, Dr. D. Alter, has announced that a small group on the moon could wipe out all life on earth by the use of rocket bombs.

One of the men, Hail Aziz Ahmad al Maythal, was trained in the use of rocket-propelled grenade launchers, machine guns and "trench digging, disguise techniques, escape methods, evasion and map reading," according to the military's accusations.