Sentences with phrase «of war ships»

In the black and white photographs, Bangsted explores how Modernism collaborates with war through Dazzle camouflage, which was applied to the allied fleet of war ships during World War l and II.

Dazzling blue sea and the golden sandy shores of abandoned alcoves are replaced with murky waves polluted with the remains of war ships and demolished Frigates.

Everyone handles good news well, it's easy to pat yourselves on the back for Gears of War shipping 3M copies in a couple of months.

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Though Star Wars revenue declined slightly for Hasbro in 2016, the company said it is confident it will sell through inventory in the first half of 2017 as it ships more new products to retailers.

Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Doveton Sturdee, the Chief of War Staff at the Admiralty, took personal command of the force, which numbered seven ships in total.

Essentially small aircraft carriers that can carry troops, the ships are capable of waging war on land, air, and sea.

The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is no longer reserved for bombarding the bejesus out of ISIS militants in Syria from the cover of the war - torn country's rolling deserts: Marine Corps officials are experimenting with firing the guided artillery system from the deck of an amphibious ship in the middle of the ocean.

The loss of an Indian naval ship from submarine action in the 1971 Indo - Pakistan War brought Paulraj to sonar technology and he advanced the Indian Navy's sonar capability.

Several times before I've commented on the implications of a possible U.S. - China trade war in response to Trump's repeated calls to raise tariffs on goods shipped in from the Asian giant.

Morton's feisty and daring nature led him to command one the U.S. Navy's most fierce war ships of all time, the USS Wahoo.

Robert E. Lee (no relation) was a second lieutenant in the marines in 1975, when he was shipped over to Vietnam during the end - of - the - war evacuation, a month before the fall of Saigon.

The risk of cyber attacks targeting ships» satellite navigation is pushing nations to delve back through history and develop back - up systems with roots in World War Two radio technology.

That ship carries troops and more than 30 planes, including the F - 35 stealth fighter — one of America's most advanced attack aircraft and one that would almost certainly be used if war with North Korea were to break out.

«He talked about the good old days, when we had to ship in pizza and it didn't feel like we were working around the clock, about times of war and times of peace.»

On Thursday, fellow prairie province Saskatchewan entered into the war, announcing it will consider limits on its out - of - province oil shipments if B.C. continues its efforts to delay the pipeline expansion project.While Saskatchewan likely would not be shipping oil on the proposed pipeline, the province has been negatively impacted by the projects continued delays.

They may worry that the transition will cause key individuals to jump ship or embark on internal tugs - of - war.

Of course, that ship has sailed, but if you'd like to be part of a Star Wars movie, good news: you'll have plenty of opportunities to do so.Of course, that ship has sailed, but if you'd like to be part of a Star Wars movie, good news: you'll have plenty of opportunities to do so.of a Star Wars movie, good news: you'll have plenty of opportunities to do so.of opportunities to do so...

Lolololol... I think I read the slogan somewhere that was used during the 2nd world war... LOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS... but of course in this day and age it's television shows... oh and good riddance boys.

When Japanese kamikaze pilots destroyed a huge amount of American ships in World War Two, the US government commissioned the anthropologist Ruth Benedict...

When America reluctantly enterered the war, they focused on stopping Hitler but did not target any of the routes being used to ship jews to any of the camps or anything that would necessarily stop it from happening.

This in turn meant that there would be, enough ships to protect the country in the event of war.

My overseas adventures were restricted to two summers of feeding horses and shoveling manure on relief ships to Poland and Belgium just after World War H. I lived on the YDS campus and borrowed my roommate's wheezing Studebaker to drive to my fieldwork in a struggling blue - collar congregation in North Haven.

A must - see for history buffs and those interested in military aircraft, war ships, equipment and who want to get a better understanding of the risk our military men and women take in combat.

This year holds special significance as the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War and to mark the occasion Mr David Horsman, a former weapons engineer and ships diver in The Royal Navy, symbolically kick - started the paper production process.

In 1941, German Templers were shipped from Palestine and interned for the duration of the war, which led to the establishment of the Temple Society Australia.

In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters carried iron cannons.

As President of the Impartial Female Humane Society, she opened a home for elderly women that later expanded into an entire retirement community named in her honor, as was the World War II Liberty ship, the SS Mary Pickersgill.

No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.

In the end, what constitutes a reason for going to war has nothing to do with the legality or illegality of seizing a ship.

The United States National Guard might even be less demanding as they require one weekend a month and two weeks a year (though they can further mobilize in times of crisis at the state governor's discretion or be federalized and shipped to a battlefield during war time).

Mallgraf, a retired World War II veteran and survivor of the USS Franklin, the most heavily damaged ship to survive World War II, was surprised as he and his wife were on their way to the airport to move down South.

This week Falklands War veteran Simon Weston, who suffered 70 operations as a result of burns received when his ship was sunk, announced he would take on Mr Michael for the post.

But they turned 18, so the UK government shipped them back to a war zone — a country in which its own ministers say there is no possibility of safe return.

Is it an act of war if a cargo ship enters unprotected waters that does not belong to the nationality of the captain and company of the ship?

The ship and her fliers and sailors have been the subject of the 10 - part History Channel series «Battle - 360» and the non-fiction book by Barrett Tillman published earlier this year titled Enterprise: America's Fightingest Ship and the Men Who Helped Win World Warship and her fliers and sailors have been the subject of the 10 - part History Channel series «Battle - 360» and the non-fiction book by Barrett Tillman published earlier this year titled Enterprise: America's Fightingest Ship and the Men Who Helped Win World WarShip and the Men Who Helped Win World War II.

The Enterprise, the most decorated ship of the Second World War, launched the first aircraft in defense of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and engaged in 20 of the 22 Pacific War battles.

Divers have recovered treasures such as gold jewelry, two bronze spears from oversized warrior statues and a «war dolphin» — a teardrop - shaped lead weight dropped from a ship's sails to smash the deck of hostile vessels.

His home was among the most industrial and polluted communities in the nation, routinely blasted by burning gases and thick smoke from the refinery, and next to chemical plants, a commercial port frequented by huge diesel ships and a slew of shuttered factories left over from the city's World War II shipbuilding days.

The move to drop the campaign reverses a difficult decision taken last month by the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision, which agreed to ship out about half of its total supply of cholera vaccine to the war - torn country.

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: July 10, 1915 An article in the July 10, 1915 issue of Scientific American carried an article about plans for a new French battleship, the Tourville (and by extension the sister ships in the class: Duquesne, Lyon and Lille).

Other crowdsourced projects include labeling aerial photos of Mongolia in a quest to find Genghis Khan's tomb and improving climate models by poring over World War I ship logs for weather information.

Take a green 18 - year - old, stick him in a uniform, ship him off to a war, and expose him to something truly horrific even by the standards of human violence — say, a battle in which he's the only soldier in his entire unit to survive.

«Beauty and the Beasts,» page 24 «The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships: The Mating - Warring Association in Men,» by Lei Chang and colleagues, in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, states that male participants primed by attractive faces or legs of young women were significantly faster in responding to images or words of war than those primed by unattractive faces or national flags.

Brittle failure may be the underlying cause of such disasters as the Titanic and 19 World War II ships that broke in half while docked.

Most ships sunk during the second world war were made of plate between 19 and 25 millimetres thick.

Written as the Cold War was winding down, Ride and her co-authors proposed a method to verify the presence of nuclear - armed missiles on ships and submarines.

Players take command of their own ships in the midst of a war set 30 years after the events in the film Star Trek: Nemesis (not the recent Star Trek reboot).

For example, when he describes cases of astonishing eyesight in chapter 21 of book VII, Pliny writes that Homer's Iliad was written in such small script that the complete manuscript could fit in a nutshell; he also mentions a man called Strabo, who could recognize objects 135 miles away and who, during the Punic Wars, could sight and even count the enemy ships docked in Carthage from a promontory in Sicily.

In March, the team reported the discovery of the wreck of the HMS Tarpon, a British submarine from World War II that sank with around 59 crewmembers aboard after a battle with an armed German merchant ship in 1940.

In October 2009 the government of Italy announced that a wreck discovered off the southwestern tip of the country is the Catania, a passenger vessel sunk during World War I — and not the Cunski, a cargo ship loaded with radioactive waste, as alleged by district authorities from nearby Calabria.