Sentences with word «gunboat»

Perhaps trade and warfare were equivalent back in the days of gunboat diplomacy (a favoured U.S. strategy in Asia in bygone days), but absent a willingness to engage in armed confrontation, today trade and warfare are fundamentally different.

century) with gunboats against their will.

The Commander of the outfit, Rear Admiral Joseph Okojie, said on Monday that the troops recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition, adding that a military gunboat seized from the soldiers was also recovered.

Australia threatened a bit of gunboat diplomacy, announcing that it would dispatch a patrol boat (the guns would have been removed, actually) and aircraft to shadow the Japanese whalers.

Other historians point to the arrival of British gunboats in the 1830s, when industrialising Europe collided with ancient China, as the dawn of China's modern age.

A new game mode introduces War Thunder Naval Battles, pitting players against each other on land, sea and air in a variety of historic small gunboats.

I don't do white (or even cream) shoes well... they always look like gunboats on me unless they are very delicate and strappy.

But most people come to Isla Perro for snorkeling in and around the shipwreck gunboat that lies around 50 meters in front of the beach, when tide is low you can see it hitting the sea surface.

She was recently with one client having dinner overlooking the water when an armed gunboat motored by.

The U.S. and Mexico already have relatively free trade, so absent gunboat diplomacy to force Mexicans to buy more U.S. exports, all the U.S. can really do is restrict the amount of imports from Mexico by erecting new trade barriers.

Conversely, if gunboat diplomacy is an option, you can use threats to become the monopoly purchaser of a country's exports and force them to trade at an unfavourable price.

«Finally I told them I was taking at least one of the boats out of there, and to hell with the Cuban gunboats.

«Gunboats for the Police Marine to man the waterways at Onitsha, Aguleri and Nzam has been provided.

Aftermath of the outbreak of the confrontation between Ogbe - Ijaw and Aladja communities on Friday, resulting in sporadic shooting and the pandemonium that followed, the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Delta deployed two naval gunboats and its Special Boat service operatives to the riverside scene.

A statement by Force Public Relations Officer, Mr Olabisi Kolawole, said: «Meanwhile, the Police have commenced extensive security operations in the state, including the deployment of plainclothes detectives and surveillance helicopters for aerial patrols, while gunboats and speed boats will complement the Police Marine Unit to convey security personnel and election materials to riverine communities.

The CDS made the disclosure Wednesday at the inauguration of 25 locally built gunboats donated to Nigerian Navy unit, NNS Pathfinder, in Port Harcourt.

Olonishakin expressed optimism that the 25 gunboats newly acquired by the Nigerian Navy would help in drastically reducing oil theft, sea piracy and other forms of illegalities in the nation's maritime environment.

Exhibits will open about a half hour after Cuomo is scheduled to visit, at 10 a.m. Fairgoers should have enough time to head to the New York Experience area to see a miniature replica of a Revolutionary War gunboat be built, or check out an exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary of the New York State Police near the Horticulture Building.

She must accompany the colossal gunboat enforcer on his rounds as part of her ongoing assessment.

Did I say that this car, all 17 feet and two and one - quarter tons of it, costs only half to two - thirds as much as the other big gunboats?

There are econocars and mid-level family sedans, an SUV or three, and a flagship capitalist gunboat.

Have you looked at Gunboats?

Here you're able to snorkel and uncover the leftovers of an old army gunboat that Mother Nature has taken over throughout the years.

It was captured by the British during the War of 1812 (1812 - 15), and Union gunboats shelled its waterfront buildings during the Civil War (1861 - 65).

-- Naval Gunboats.

Their unbelievable adventure together starts with a battle between the Sea Shepherd and shark poachers in Guatemala, resulting in pirate boat rammings, gunboat chases, mafia espionage, corrupt court systems and attempted murder charges, forcing them to flee for their lives.

According to the report, security had been beefed up ahead of the visit both on land and in the sea, with gunboats and military personnel dispatched to strategic locations in Warri South - West.

When we dispatched our security surveillance team to the area, we saw a military gunboat with some NSCDC personnel that escaped the attack.

Today's gunboat diplomacy gravely threatens the integrity of these negotiations.»

You can find no less than 12 different Japanese vessels — 6 large destroyers and 2 smaller gunboats — all sunk on September 24th 1944 in a daring Allied forces attack.

«It's hard to enjoy a nice rosé with a gunboat passing by,» she joked.

Of course, Ross's sabre rattling could be the precursor to some gunboat diplomacy (although the White House claims that President Trump was just joking about sending in U.S. troops in his call with the Mexican President).

Alexis Tsipras was on course on Monday night to sway radical - leftist Syriza MPs to accept the most draconian rescue of a sovereign nation since the second world war, after the Greek prime minister accepted a third bailout programme that one analyst said came after a weekend of «gunboat diplomacy».

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

Secondly there's the gunboat diplomacy argument.

It's gunboat diplomacy with no gunboats.

He further disclosed that while 300 Hilux vehicles had been positioned in areas prone to violence, 15 gunboats would be used to cover the riverine areas.

«With the heavy presence of 100 Gunboats, 4 Warships and Jet Bombers NDA blew up Chevron Oil Well RMP 23 and RMP 24 3:44 am this Morning», it stated.

The Assange standoff at the Ecuadorian embassy suggests that things haven't changed much since a century or more ago, when our preferred method of resolving a diplomatic dispute was to send in a gunboat or two.

«Only some days back, they (soldiers) invaded Oporoza community with two gunboats,» Godspower Gbenekama from Gbaramatu community, near Warri, told AFP.

It also accused Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, of «gunboat» diplomacy in dealing with councils.

«Three suspects were arrested and a large quantity of arms, ammunition and the gunboat that was taken from Nembe on August 8,2016 were recovered.»

It was learnt that the hoodlums also forced one of the surviving soldiers to operate the military gunboat that was seized from the troops, because it was too complex for their own men.

The gunmen, who were dressed in mourning outfit as if they were on a funeral procession, ambushed the detachment of the ODS, killed the soldiers and carted away their arms, ammunition and military gunboat.

According to him, among the items recovered from the suspected hoodlums include nine AK 47 rifles, an FN rifle, four HK 21 MGs, one G3 MG, three GPMGs, 20 AK 47 magazines, two G3 magazines, one FN magazine, one container of gunpowder, the gunboat seized from the murdered soldiers and military accoutrements.

«Delivery of the additional 50 gunboats will ensure that the nation's backwaters are saturated with patrol boats for improved security of our maritime domain.

Ibok - Ekwe Ibas, said the navy employed the services of local engineers to construct the gunboats to save cost and cut capital flight.