Fleets

But with no help from Mother Nature at all, organisers are now falling back on their least-preferred option: moving huge quantities of snow from the higher elevations of Cypress, which are white, to the lower levels in fleets of lorries and possibly even by helicopter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Office supply giant Staplesjust became the latest customer of the enterprising Smith Electric Vehicles, which has already placed its battery-powered delivery trucks in fleets run by Frito-Lay, Coca-Cola, PG&E and AT&T. ❋ Jim Motavalli (2010)

As from 1526, the "Casa de Contratación" decreed that all vessels should leave in fleets rather than on an individual basis. ❋ Unknown (2008)

General Ross repeatedly sends in fleets, each suffering wild (but fun) decimation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I too could “send my ships in fleets all up and down among the sheets,” or “bring my trees and houses out and plant cities all about.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Carnegie Steel furnished the armor plate for the United States Navy, but its proprietor argued for a reduction in fleets and for what would have been a precursor to the League of Nations. ❋ Unknown (2006)

If a contract for upgrading the fleets is finalized, then having an assembly plant in Mexico would enable Boeing to supply the new craft more quickly as well as taking the company one step closer to future contracts elsewhere in Latin America. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Those of you who are students of history and economics know that the discovery on June 24, 1497 of what is called Cape Bonavista by John Cabot, for which King Henry V11 awarded him a gift of k 10 sterling on his return to England, was the launching of the western Atlantic fishing industry, which to this day attracts fleets from the entire world to the waters off the coast of Newfoundland. ❋ Unknown (1976)

But more important by far than any partial disarmament of armies and fleets, is the "disarmament" of the people from within, the generation, in fact, of sympathy in the souls of men. ❋ Unknown (1922)

The rivalry in the fishing trade led to conflicts which were carried almost to the point of war, and the fishing fleets from the Dutch and English ports both reckoned, as an ordinary experience, on having to defend themselves by armed force. ❋ Henry Craik (1886)

Early in the nineteenth century Algiers was forced to abandon piracy before Lord Exmouth's guns, and soon after the Moors were given to understand that it could no longer be permitted to them either, since the Moorish "fleets" -- if worthy the name -- had grown so weak, and those of the Nazarenes so strong, that the tables were turned. ❋ Budgett Meakin (1886)

I am no expert in matters of the fleet or of the aeroplane, but I know this that naval men, and in a larger degree men connected with the air service, are convinced that the day of these big fleets is over, and that a few years will see the end of naval rivalry -- there may be some other rivalry -- but will see the end of naval rivalry because that will not mean very much to the nation. ❋ Unknown (1930)

8 These corsairs had indeed been driven by the Byzantine fleets from the fortresses and coasts of Italy; but a sense of interest was more prevalent than superstition or resentment, and the caliph of Egypt had transported forty thousand ❋ Unknown (1206)

The firm will be adding 1,500 megawatts of additional production to its existing fleets, which is almost the equivalent of a new nuclear facility, he says. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A quizzical expression fleets across Escadra's eyes, quickly, but not quickly enough to escape the scrutiny of the older woman. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2001)

Their fleets were their satrap, their feudal fiefdom, and the crews were their serfs. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1984)

Why should I recall the fleets burned on the coast of Eryx? why the king of storms, and the raging winds roused from Aeolia, or Iris driven down the clouds? ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)