Sentence examples for war staging from inspiring English sources

He commanded a Navy PT boat — a motor torpedo craft — in the Pacific during the war, staging raids that sank 26 Japanese supply barges between November 1943 and January 1944 off New Guinea and New Britain.

He used his access to the family fortune to finance opera from the 1910s until the start of the Second World War, staging seasons at Covent Garden, Drury Lane and His Majesty's Theatre with international stars, his own orchestra and a wide repertoire.

There is no hiding the fact that this is a war staging.

Here in the nation's most expensive real estate market, where it is not uncommon to have 15 buyers in a bidding war, staging -- also called house-dressing or "fluffing" -- is rapidly becoming the norm.

Such eerie parallels may well be found during the nationwide tour of The Absence of War, staged by Headlong and directed by Jeremy Herrin.

Over in Hackney, the "now fully sold" Mettle&Poise development is a mile or so away from where Class War staged last weekend's anti-gentrification protest.

Plans for competition the next year were dropped when major powers, honoring their commitments to factions in the Ethiopian civil war, staged a nuclear exchange.

Some of the first Neorealist masterpieces — Roberto Rossellini's "Open City" and "Paisan," for example — were stories of war staged in the immediate aftermath of the fighting.

A group of veterans from the 1950-53 Korean War staged a protest last month, sitting in front of a party office in Danchon, a town on North Korea's eastern coast, according to Good Friends, a relief group based in Seoul.

Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me) Ben Duke's gorgeously lo-fi one-man-show takes on Milton and the whole of creation, from heavenly war staged with a hail of chickpeas to a look at the vulnerabilities of parenthood.

While the suggested origins of Rouketopolemos range from it being an Ottoman tradition once performed with real cannons, to the reenactment of a fake civil war staged keep the occupying Turks out during Easter mass, as the filmmakers describe, amid turbulent and uncertain times in the region, ROCKET WARS shows that the fires of tradition still roar on. .