Sentence examples for were intercepted off from inspiring English sources

While the former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was still in power, migrants – including many deserving of humanitarian protection – were intercepted off the shores of Libya in particular and returned to the tender mercies of the Gaddafi regime.

This is the dramatic moment RAF Typhoon fighters had to be scrambled to escort a Russian aircraft away from British airspace off the South Coast of the UK last month - just a day after two Russian Bear Bombers were intercepted off the coast of Cornwall.

The RAF has also had to deal with Russian aircrafts, after a Typhoon fighter jet was scrambled to escort a Russian aircraft away from British airspace off the South Coast in January – just two days after two Russian Bear Bombers were intercepted off the Cornish coast.

Arriving much too late to affect the outcome, these reinforcements were intercepted off the islands and scattered during the Action of 14 17 April 1809: half the force failed to return to France.

In an effort to resupply the garrison, the French sent a convoy from Toulon in February 1800, but the ships were intercepted off Malta by a squadron under Nelson on 17 February and in the ensuing battle the flagship Généreux was captured and Contre-Admiral Jean-Baptiste Perrée was killed.

The boat, the Santorini, was intercepted off Rosh Hanikra, near the Israel-Lebanon border.

Since Sunday, three vessels carrying a total of 174 people have been intercepted off the south-eastern shores of Sicily.

After a government decision to close Malaysian ports, officials confirmed on Thursday that the two refugee boats had been intercepted off Langkawi and Penang islands, on Malaysia's western littoral, and forced back out to sea.

During the War of 1812, which broke out while he was at sea, he was twice captured by the British; on his first voyage his ship, carrying a cargo of flour, was intercepted off St John's, Newfoundland, and Morrell was detained for eight months.

Six Russian military planes have been intercepted off the coast of Alaska as they approached North American airspace.

The OSB media strategy was demonstrated definitively in the response to the now-notorious "burned hands" reports of January, which alleged that asylum seekers were mistreated when a boat was intercepted off the coast of Darwin.