Sentences with phrase «airlift from»

«(AP) The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two - week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

«New airlift from the likes of Etihad Airways will facilitate this growth.

Given Jamaica's proximity to the huge North American market and its extensive airlift from a wide variety of North American gateway cities we are in a very good position to be able to take advantage of this trend.

I already had run into red tape as a civilian in a military world when I sought an airlift from Baghdad.

The Flutie years: the 11 - car train to New Haven for the Yale game; the 10,000 BC fans who flew to the Tangerine Bowl in what one Eagle follower calls «the largest airlift from Boston to a single destination since World War II»; beating Alabama at Foxboro; tying national champion Clemson at Clemson and then beating Clemson at home the next year.

Local media reports claim it took rescuers more than eight hours to get to the survivors and they were not airlifted from the scene until around 2 am on Sunday.

The modern space could have been airlifted from Silver Lake; the baristas marry espresso - nerd obsessiveness with small - town friendliness; the coffee is roasted in - house and served in glass mugs — c» mon, the place is named for a bicycle for two.

Several people have been airlifted from the scene on a helicopter, RTL reports.

In an emotional and historic moment, Muslim pilgrims were airlifted from Tamale to Mecca.

By the time it's completed, it will have the longest runway in Ghana and it will be able to take aircraft of all sizes and capacities because one of the intentions of that airport is to create a special cargo zone, so that agricultural products, horticultural products, vegetables and other things produced here, will be airlifted from here.

A year after Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, refused the State from participating in the yearly pilgrimage to holy land for not being airlifted from...

The fighter was airlifted from his truck and rushed to St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Illinois.

It's this kind of film: Some of the characters at the end, hauled in to provide a moral payoff, seem to be have been airlifted from Brazil — which, in fact, they were.

The twenty - six of us numbered enough men for a platoon, yet another wave in the sea of Iraq war casualties airlifted from Landstuhl every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday night.

Airlifted from Vietnam at the end of the war and adopted by a loving American family, Matt Pin, 12, is haunted by what he left behind.

(BTW, the head of MWiDP, Mark Williams, «Mr. International» is very ill, and has been airlifted from the African village where he was volunteering to a hospital in the UK.

Your feel good story of the day: More than 300 homeless dogs were rescued from Georgia kill shelters and airlifted from Fort Stewart's..

This sprawling beach - house - style inn looks like it was airlifted from Nantucket and dropped on the Santa Monica shore.

Any kind of accidents during the trip like getting stuck in a mountain while skiing or getting airlifted from a cruise is generally covered by the private travel insurance companies.

The Houston Chronicle reports, U.S. ships were being outfitted earlier this month with four pairs of skimming booms airlifted from the Netherlands and should be deployed within days.»

Not exact matches

The far - reaching initiative encompasses not only relief efforts but also reduced flight fares from the island, disaster recovery awareness and fundraising pushes, airlift support systems and more.

Days later, Hurricane Maria slammed into the 156th Airlift Wing's home base in Puerto Rico, and the plane subsequently transported supplies from the U.S. mainland to the ruined island.

The plane, a C -130-type cargo plane from Puerto Rico's 156th Airlift Wing, had been in Savannah for maintenance and took off about 11:30 a.m., bound for Arizona.

Most were airlifted out in 1949 and 1950 as part of Operation Magic Carpet, an Israeli undertaking to rescue Arab (especially Yemeni) Jews following the pogroms that resulted from the founding of Israel in 1948.

The Rev. Franklin Graham on Friday was readying what he described as an airlift of more than 90 tons of emergency supplies from North Carolina to earthquake - and tsunami - ravaged Japan.

Meanwhile, proposed operations to airlift thousands of refugees who've fled Islamist fighters from a mountainside in northern Iraq are looking less likely.It's after US intelligence found fewer people still trapped there than feared.

A Qatari company has airlifted 165 cows into the tiny Arab state to help ease a shortage of dairy products caused by a blockade from its neighbors.

Then, because she was having difficulty breathing from a swollen and constricted airway, she was airlifted to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas for further treatment.

Goal.com reports that Scottish champions Celtic are in Liverpool to airlift defender Sami Hyppia from Anfield.

Damage to both cars was extensive, and medics took almost two hours to extract Monger from his car before airlifting him to hospital.

But Villa manager O'Neil is busy strengthening his modest side in order to enlarge it for a possible UEFA Cup place next season and is willing to airlift Routledge from north London to Birmingham.

I saw the surgons report From the Military hospital that the Guard CO had him airlifted to that Saturday.

The government is set to airlift Christian pilgrims from Ghana to Israel and other parts of the Christian world on an annual basis, beginning with about 100 persons.

Delivering a sermon after the Eid prayers in Tamale, the Regional Imam, Sheikh Ahmed Salam, said airlifting pilgrims direct from Tamale made the Hajj easier for Muslims in the region.

Muslims in the Northern Region have commended government for airlifting pilgrims from Tamale to Jeddah to perform this year's Hajj.

Fast - moving lava crossed a road and threatened dozens of homes, prompting National Guard helicopters to airlift residents from Hawaii's lower Puna area.

The inauguration thus paved way for the first batch of pilgrims to be airlifted directly from Tamale to Medina for Hajj.

Also at 9 a.m., New York Army National Guard Soldiers from Latham's 42nd Infantry Division Headquarters will join Airmen of the 109th Airlift Wing in Scotia to volunteer to help load about 125 Christmas trees being donated and sent to military bases around the country to support troops and military families this holiday season, Ellms Tree Family Farm, 468 Charlton Rd., Ballston Spa.

Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu (right) with the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, when THE duo met at the Defence Headquarters, Abuja on Thursday to discuss a request from INEC to the Nigerian Air Force for assistance to airlift the Commission's personnel and materials to five local government areas in Bornu State.

He disclosed that the airlift of the intending pilgrims from the state would commence on July 14.

Sweat was airlifted to Albany Medical Center, where he was upgraded from critical to serious condition after doctors determined overnight that he didn't need immediate surgery.

«Basically, we were able to show that dust and biological aerosols that were lofted from deserts all the way across the world in the Sahara and Asia were airlifted all the way across the world to make ice crystals in clouds in the western United States,» Creamean said.

Swooping down in a last - ditch effort to thwart extinction, conservationists have airlifted 50 «mountain chickens» — frogs to us — from the Caribbean island of Montserrat.

The scene effectively conveys the king - of - the - world high of a solid drug rush, and the film has just enough of an edge that I winced each time they hit the glass, convinced that one of them would take that big fall into the canyons of L.A. Elizabeth Hurley, meanwhile, is very pretty and sports a lovely English accent but seems to have been airlifted in from an entirely different movie.

It's not really a handicap if you've not seen the first film, as the pertinent details are recounted in a lightning burst of prologue exposition, leading up to how our gormless hero Reiji opens the film dangling naked from a cage full of large sweaty men in towels being airlifted by helicopter across Tokyo.

Indignation The long debate between Lerman and Letts is as great as advertised, but it oddly feels like it has been airlifted in from a very different film.

We got a closer look at that gem the following day near the top of Mont Blanc, which lies nearly 16,000 feet above sea level, when it was airlifted in by helicopter especially for the occasion — like a scene from a «Fast and Furious» sequel.

For our part, starting from the site of the airlift that sustained the city through the eleven - month blockade of 1948 and 1949, we drove a 26 - kilometer (16 - mile) loop over major streets, passing a remnant of the old Wall along the way and reflecting with admiration on our forebears» defiance of Soviet totalitarianism.

Schumacher was airlifted by helicopter from the site of the accident at the Meribel resort to a Moutiers hospital, before his condition was determined to require treatment at a larger hospital in Grenoble, where he underwent the emergency procedure.

Saturn engineers Alfred Soulliere, the driver, and Mark Goften were airlifted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville after rescue crews spent 40 minutes removing them from the wreckage.