Sentence examples for warship against from inspiring English sources

This time it is a dispute over the future of a parcel of land in Greenpoint where the Monitor was once assembled, which has pitted a couple's dream of building a museum dedicated to the warship against a neighborhood push to turn the waterfront into a park.

American officials have said Islamic militants botched an earlier attempt to attack an American warship there, against The Sullivans last January.

U.S. naval officer who commanded the Union warship Monitor against the Confederate Virginia (formerly Merrimack) in the first battle between ironclads (March 9, 1862) in the American Civil War (1861 65).

In one image from Yokosuka, a hulking warship slants against the shoreline, a dark, daunting double of the land askew.

Historical reaction to the battle has focused on the significantly stronger British position in the encounter, with three large regular warships pitted against a hastily converted merchant vessel with a significant proportion of the crew suffering from illness.

Criticism of China over the South China Sea will rebound like a coiled spring, a Chinese diplomat said on Friday, as a U.S. warship visited Shanghai against a backdrop of rising tension in the region.

Mr. Nashiri put off pleading guilty or not guilty to a series of charges against him — including murder in violation of the laws of war and conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism — related to the Cole bombing, a plot to attack another American warship and an attack against a French supertanker.

Defence officials told reporters that a US Aegis-class warship capable of defending against missile strikes had also been moved to the south-west coast off South Korea.

The Hunley was to dive under an enemy warship and drag the torpedo against its hull.

In Yemen, site of the attack last year against the American warship Cole, officials have kept a careful distance from what President Bush has promised will be a war.

The second, received in mid-September, warned about a possible attack against an American warship, but did not specify where or when.