Sentence examples for was being outfitted from inspiring English sources

Either their ship was being outfitted with mine detectors, or a mine net was being installed in the harbor.

While the research ship was being outfitted in San Francisco, Sylvia continued with her manifold activities, taking the whale film to the Soviet Union and then to Hong Kong and China, where she met Mme.

Afterward, we detoured to the other side of the harbor and past a replica of the Matthew -- the ship Cabot sailed to North America -- which was being outfitted as a floating museum.

In January 1942, he joined the submarine Trigger as it was being outfitted in Mare Island, Calif., and served on it until May 1944, rising to executive officer, the second in command.

When Benanav is planning his trip, he remembers an interview in which Wilfred Thesiger, the great British explorer, scoffed at news that a biologist's African trek was being outfitted with a satellite phone: "Well, you see, that wrecks it!

But this week, the Chinese barely made a peep after a new, perhaps even more shocking, set of espionage revelations came to light: President Jiang Zemin's newly delivered Boeing 767 had been surreptitiously loaded with dozens of listening devices while its interior was being outfitted last year in San Antonio.

In perhaps the strongest sign of permanence, the guards' huts are being outfitted with indoor plumbing.

The plane's cockpit is being outfitted with electronics, crew seats and windows from the 747s.

Babies, meanwhile, are being outfitted in Francis-themed looks that their future selves undoubtedly hope will not be captured for posterity (this little guy wasn't so lucky).

Front-line workers there are being outfitted with radios, and the company is installing scanners around its system to let it track bags more closely.

The group's offices, above the posh Caucus Room restaurant downtown, are being outfitted with a modern studio so the staff can send ads to TV and radio stations across the country on a moment's notice.