Sentence examples for warships from inspiring English sources

Warships suffer no penalty and the boats supporting thousands of families living in poverty become ash on the water.

Imagine the outrage in Australia if Indonesian warships were to apprehend Australian boats, even with a legal basis.

Two hundred and sixty years ago this month a swashbuckling Yorkshireman known as Lieutenant Colonel Robert Monckton led a fleet of warships containing 270 English troops across Atlantic waters and into the mouth of the Missaguash river.

"The breadth of opportunities is already out there, and part of this campaign is to let you all know exactly what those opportunities are," he said, citing as examples female commanding officers of warships who had been "chasing pirates off the east African coast" and a female C-17 pilot running operations to Vanuatu.

Options include: fewer warships; reducing the number of F-35 fighters on two new aircraft carriers; cutting the number of warheads and missiles for the Trident programme; and smaller pay rises for the armed forces.

It has an attack submarine, more than 30 warships and amphibious craft and five fighter squadrons with 18 fighter aircraft.

The shipbuilders' union urged the government not to sell warships to Pinochet, even though losing these contracts could threaten their own jobs.

This year's Captain Phillips has the look and feel of an advertisement for the US navy – and indeed the navy provided lavish assistance, including warships and personnel.

Medvedev's move followed the passage of UN security council resolution 1929, approved in June 2010, that banned the sale to Iran of "battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems".

Marco Rubio filled a lecture hall at the Council on Foreign Relations with imagery about warships, fighter jets and weapons shipments in an appearance on Wednesday to lay out his vision for a significantly more muscular US foreign policy – one that he said would prevent a global descent into "chaos" but stop short of making America the "world's policeman".

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