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The U-boat should be so effectively countered that our convoys could count with comparative certainty on making a safe Atlantic crossing.

During this time, the Allies were deprived of valuable intelligence and were unable to route convoys away from the U-boats.

American escorts generally did not attack the U-boats they encountered but would broadcast their locations to warn British convoys .

Convoys of armored vehicles and sandbagged sentry posts have turned the region into something of an armed camp.

By saving fuel for generators, it has cut back on the number of convoys, meaning less opportunity for one of our vehicles to hit an IED.

Yet the group warned that "all Afghan people should bear in mind to keep away from gatherings, convoys and centers of the enemy. "

The attacks on food convoys means the trucks have to go on different roads and that means they spend more money on fuel and costs go up.

Now, convoys are going in and the WFP has begun to move into Gedo, near the Kenyan border, where malnutrition rates exceed 50%.

The division was strung out in long convoys that were struggling to move at speed over the atrocious Russian road network.

Belligerents are forbidden to move troops or convoys of either munitions of war or supplies across the territory of a neutral Power.

The elderly have had to hobble through the daily chaos of Port-au-Prince, forced into rubble piles by speeding convoys of aid workers.

Soviet forces are trying to retake the pass you clear for our convoys .

Russian military convoys have rolled out of three key positions in Georgia, two weeks after roaring into the former Soviet republic.

Previously, the two had worked on anti-submarine warfare, looking for ways to help defend North Atlantic convoys from German U-boats.

Without the army to fly helicopters and man convoys, their activities may have to be severely reduced.

After all , he had to occasionally be escorted by armed convoys when he traveled thru Africa and other countries of the sub- continent .

Since convoys sailed at the fastest speed of the slowest ship, speed was not of paramount importance for the escorting vessels.

As the shooting went on, U. S. army convoys could be seen coming to the area accompanied by Afghan police in flak jackets.

They lay up by day, and by night came out to attack convoys.

For Nato, this could be a very costly mistake. Border crossings have already been closed to Nato convoys.

Israel is allowing convoys with humanitarian supplies into Gaza and is allowing some Palestinians into Israel for medical treatment.

So far, the craft has monitored convoys and Iraqi oil and gas platforms using optical and infrared sensors.

In the United Kingdom, mobile "peace convoys" of New age travellers made summer pilgrimages to free music festivals at Stonehenge.

After long consideration, we decided to make logistics and convoys work more intuitively so we splitted up oil into crude oil and fuel.

They plan to travel to the capital in convoys from around the country and hold the sitting until their demands are met.

At intervals along the road we ran into mule-cart convoys carrying mountain products to the plains below.

The Pentagon is worried about the prospect of a vacuum in southern Iraq, through which its supply convoys from Kuwait must pass.

Quite a lot of the violence, such as the frequent attacks on aid convoys and UN food dumps, is now sheer banditry.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, however, there are no front lines and road convoys everywhere are among the most vulnerable targets.

Supply convoys continue to pour into remote mountain valleys , loaded with tents, clean water and food .

This has led to two rebel convoys being mistakenly attacked from the air.

Army convoys supplying Aleppo have come under repeated rebel attack.

The additional forces for the U. N. mission will help the 9, 000 troops there to secure humanitarian corridors and escort aid convoys.

In similar fashion, military convoys are to be driven more carefully.

Western officials say convoys carrying weapons for the Taliban have crossed Iran's frontier with Afghanistan.

Another health centers, beauty hair Center, Business Center, commissioned agent ticketing center, luxury convoys, and other facilities.

They took me in a large, open-top four-wheel-drive at high speed, in large convoys, for four hours.

Not in Afghanistan, where the Taliban slaughtered aid convoys.

During WWII the 'Krasin' led Allied convoys, which brought strategic supplies, arms and ammunition to the Soviet Union.

DARPA wants to use such technology to produce robotic vehicles for military convoys in areas of conflict.

Roads north from Chengdu to the disaster area were sealed off early Tuesday to all but emergency convoys .

Armed food convoys carrying free water and food staples are now a regular sight in the Haitian capital.

In June 1943 the beaten remnants of the U-boat fleet ceased to attack our North Atlantic convoys, and we gained a welcome respite.

The convoys are generally operated by contracted Pakistani firms, using Pakistani trucks and drivers.

Anti-aircraft armament aboard an Allied armed merchant. In the background, a convoys steams unmolested into Europe.

And then there are the insurgent attacks on government convoys and drive-by shootings that leave innocent bystanders dead or wounded.

Attacks by Qaeda militants in Yemen have picked up again, with several deadly assaults on Yemeni army convoys in recent weeks.

Some suggest protected convoys, but this would slow down shipping and require more warships than are available.

Ships steaming along maritime corridors in convoys are safer than they were.

Mortar systems provide much needed relief for convoys and patrols that come under attack from insurgents.

Anyone veering too close to the convoys risks being shot.

He called them mugrosos (slimeballs) and cockroaches, and chased their armored convoys through the streets.

Convoys of lorries trundle along the narrow roads , churning them to mud.

turn back A lot of the convoys had been turned back at the border.

protecting supply convoys was drawing forces away from other tasks.

She organizes periodic supply convoys to various camps for the displaced.

The convoys fought their way to the northern Soviet seaports, despite heavy Nazi bombardment and the constant threat of submarine attacks.

Truck convoys are prime target for attacks, so if you have fewer convoys it probably makes it safer to fight the war.

A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys.

Example: Airmen driving 50-caliber gun trucks in Iraqi convoys, or airmen serving as volunteer interrogators .

These days, mass work Tingnan Ministry of Coal Industry Company, Zhang Yan, always sneak in to the belt running convoys.

Kybo Ren coveted the wealth of Tammuz-an, and frequently raided convoys headed there.

The extra security personnel will be used mostly to escort aid convoys and secure a number of supply routes overland.

Atthe end of 2004 he came to Britain to collect funds for an aid convoys Fallujah.

He urged that military support be sent to protect humanitarian convoys.

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From the banks of the river we could see the shadowy outlines of countless salmon, swimming upstream in funereal convoys.

The school loans such pupils scooters, then sends teaching assistants (on adult scooters) to gather them into convoys in the mornings.

The roads towards the epicentre are clogged with such convoys.

Convoys of luxury cars, driven by fans, greet the most expensive studs at airports.

Convoys have repeatedly come under militant fire in recent days.

They are seen wearing team colors, carrying a country's flag and clumping together in convoys to games.

Between June and September, 13 local staff members of NGOs were killed in attacks on vehicle convoys in North Darfur.

But ambushes of convoys of security men are certainly taking place.

In one day, we really got stuff going in by air and aid supplies going in from land convoys.

Convoys of rebel trucks sped among Tripoli's civilian traffic.

Armed forces linked to him have contracts to protect the CIA and to escort ISAF fuel convoys.

PRT officials tour Kandahar in armoured convoys.

At a famous battle site, below the 14, 000-foot pass that leads into Tawang, army convoys go slow, and salute their ghosts.

Convoys of police and rescue vehicles raced to the town.

Egyptian police recently removed them from the view of media convoys passing through.

To get to work, it takes 15 minutes from my house, but that's on a good day. There is almost always traffic, convoys and checkpoints.

As insurgency engulfed the Americans, supply convoys became a favourite target.

Convoys of police trucks circled.

Casella says the WFP has sent 11 convoys into the area since September and this has kept about 230, 000 people alive during this period.

And second, rule-followers tend to form convoys which can lead to pile ups that jam the road.

When convoys such as this passed with artillery prime movers and trucks, the dust cloud could be choking.

According to a classified United States military document, he is supposed to have taken part in attacks on ISAF convoys on Highway 1.

I was writing code again, not running convoys.

Pagonis says there are no plans for future land convoys.

Helicopters may do better. They can also knock out tanks sheltering in urban areas and prevent supply convoys from using the roads.

many have also been killed for no greater crime than driving too close to nervous american military convoys

In the same period, one in every six convoys carrying humanitarian aid to the refugee camps was attacked;

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