Sentences with phrase «gunboats in»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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).

The accusation among many on the Left is that it is a convenient mask for engaging in ideological «gunboat» politics, concealing the true nature of the Right's agenda to drastically cut back public provision.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

The West African body has been engaging in «gunboat diplomacy» - putting on a show of force to make Yahya Jammeh realise he has to step aside or be forced out.

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.

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.

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.

Lurking near the horizon is a massive military boat, alluding to «gunboat diplomacy» that the U.S. has often employed in Haiti and elsewhere in the Caribbean.

Without the gunboats nothing is going to happen until we do get rid of the UN and put rational HONEST humans in their place.

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.