Sentences with phrase «convoys from»

-- He was a U.S. Navy officer in World War II and was discharged a lieutenant after spending four years on a minesweeper, escorting convoys from Trinidad to Brazil.

Before arriving in Abuja, they were brought by road convoy from a remote area to a military base in Banki near the border with Cameroon.

A convoy from Hawaii arrived and put a 50 - foot lei around a part of the school's fence.

Not exact matches

When President Hugo Chavez called for the repatriation of 160 tons in 2011, the gold moved from the airport in a televised convoy of armoured trucks; a banner reading «Mission Accomplished» greeted the final shipment at the central bank's vaults.

Police escort a convoy of buses carrying tourists evacuated from Caibarien, Villa Clara province in central Cuba, 330 km east of Havana, where the hurricane is expected to hit.

One unit moved forward, the convoy remained in place, about 300 meters from the others.

The images were taken from a video published online by the Iraqi military in June 2016, showing a joint US - Iraqi mission that attacked an ISIS convoy outside Falluja.

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Fuel - starved Nepal has signed an agreement with China to import gasoline, diesel and cooking gas, effectively ending a monopoly on supply from India, which has restricted fuel convoys as a result of political protests in the Himalayan nation.

U.S. and European markets reacted to news that a Russian convoy of 90 aid trucks had entered Ukraine without permission from Kiev on Friday.

The only sound comes from our little two - truck convoy as we pull within sight of the village.

The church recreation center and basement have become a clearinghouse for supplies brought in from nearby Louisville, Kentucky, and trucked in by tractor - trailers from Convoys of Hope, a relief agency from Springfield, Missouri.

In December, they attacked a convoy that accompanied trucks from World Food Program, killing four.

They are other islands, other fragments of the Universe, other Milky Ways sailing in convoy with our own through space (or even diverging from it at fantastic speeds).

Police boats shuttled emergency supplies across the river from New Jersey to Chelsea Piers, and a convoy of ambulances lined up in front of the center, waiting to make runs downtown.

Earnhardt put his car inches from Yarborough's rear bumper as they flashed through lap after lap in a two - car convoy.

Touched by what only he could see because of where he was standing, he ordered his convoy to stop the convoy and he then took GH cents 50 from his ADC, pointed to the crying girl in the crowd and then reaching down from the top of the vehicle, gave it to a woman standing by her thinking she was with the girl.»

The fracas occurred when members of the sect allegedly blocked the Zaria - sokoto road and prevented the convoy of the chief of Army staff from passing through despite several entreaties.

FORT DRUM — What does it take to move 1,100 Army vehicles and equipment from here to Fort Polk, La. by train, two ships and finally a convoy?

The vandals as they are known escorted the President's convoy right from the entrance to the central cafeteria where the event took place.

Well, Paladino has come around since then — with a brief foray into the imaginary land of «Trump for governor» — and is now 100 percent on the Astorino campaign train — so much so that he's headlining a two - day «convoy» with the candidate from Buffalo to Albany next month.

Each convoy takes from five to seven hours to reach its destination, depending on weather and road conditions.

Moscow's three principal news agencies reported an army convoy had crossed into South Ossetia from Russia ear; ier today.

1st Lt. John Levulis, 25 from Eden, New York, was traveling in a military convoy the evening of May 1 when a car collided with his Humvee carrying three other soldiers.

Outside the airport, it was hectic for the team of policemen and protocol officers from Multichoice, organisers of the show, to shield them from the crowd, and usher them into the waiting convoy.

Let the new ministers learn from the President who game a recent directive that he didn't want have more than eight vehicles in his convoy.

Authorities of Army headquarters yesterday in Abuja debunked a report which emanated from the Media Forum of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria alleging that soldiers attacked Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky's convoy in Abuja.

One daily convoy is scheduled to occur each weekday from Apr. 17 - Apr.

Narrating the ordeal, Oshiomohole who spoke through his Director, Media and Publicity of his campaign organisation, Prince Kassim Afegbua said: «the tipper truck emerged from the opposite direction and rammed into the flag vehicle of the Governor before crashing into several other vehicles in the convoy leaving three people dead and several others in critical condition.

He served two stints overseas as a convoy and border security officer, first in Iraq (from 2008 to 2009), and then in Afghanistan (from 2010 to 2011).

Outfitting bases with solar panels and wind turbines, he argued, would reduce the need for fuel - bearing convoys, which are vulnerable to attack and which draw soldiers away from their core mission.

Several flights in January 2013 would transport them and some scientific instruments (too fragile to be towed in the convoy) from McMurdo to Lake Whillans.

A convoy of tractors had already towed 1.2 million pounds of drilling gear 600 miles from the coast of Antarctica, where McMurdo Station served as a base.

But what really sets this book apart from the catch - penny stuff is Harris's extraordinary abilities to conjure up the feeling of actually being there, waiting for reports from doomed convoys, or simply trying to keep warm during an English winter.

«We, for the first time, can make deep images that resolve objects just 0.02 arcseconds across — this is a very small angle — it is like resolving the width of a dime seen from 100 miles away, or like resolving a convoy of three school busses driving together on the surface of the Moon.»

Taliban fighters have just launched rocket - propelled grenades at a U.S. convoy returning from the prisoner exchange.

The second scene happens in Vegas where the remaining people of the convoy and Alice are attacked by an endless stream of extra-strong zombies from a commercial container.

But that peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega), the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the western hemisphere, makes a deadly yet spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy.

After the Interpol convoy transporting Kincaid is ambushed by Dukhovich's goons, Bryce and Kincaid have to work together to get the assassin from London to court in The Hague, so that he can testify before an absurd deadline.

Megan and Rex move up from military checkpoints (a tense scene without a resolution, which seems right) to joining missions, going ahead of convoys to search for improvised explosive devices.

The documentary includes a hysterical video clip from the 1940s, when neighborhood traffic screeched to a halt while a convoy of unfinished car bodies and motorized carts carrying components lumbered across the street from one assembly building to another.

The McLaren posse that hosted us - including McLaren Automotive's managing director, Antony Sheriff, and senior members of the car's engineering team who drove the cars to Portugal from England in rapid convoy — didn't mind.

The convoy departed from the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., after a White House ceremony on July 9, 1919.

Our convoy of cars and transport vehicles, filled with HSUS staff and volunteers from other animal groups, pulled up to the property one muggy July afternoon.

«On the convoy back to Vietnam (from Cambodia — FB) while riding on a tank, we were attacked by Viet Cong soldiers firing AK - 47's and grenades, hidden by trees and bushes lining the road.

Clinging to Java's eastern shores, Banyuwangi is the gateway to the island from Bali or vice versa and the busy port of Ketapang sees daily convoys of trucks ferried across the Bali Strait to and from Bali's Gilimanuk.

As trucks from the police and the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) navigated the narrow road to transport refugees into Klungkung, a convoy of 15 SUVs from the Sahara Squad off - road club sped into Menanga to carry food and medicines.

Naval combat is actually rather simple: from a top down view you can swap between any of your convoy's three escort ships.

There was also some detailed information that I would have liked to have had available that isn't there, like what commodity in particular is my convoy making the most profit from.

Once that license is acquired you need to construct a warehouse, which is run by a steward who can be programmed to buy goods from the city for your convoys and such.

And the plunder you gain from taking out convoys usually isn't enough to sustain you either.