Example sentences of "during the gulf " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the next time I saw that happen was when erm Colin who was the coloured guy during the gulf crisis met erm our m John . |
| 2 | Ground launched missiles were used to great affect by the Allies during the gulf war . |
| 3 | President Bush 's recent pronouncements on what is just and moral during the Gulf war left me feeling empty and bitter . |
| 4 | The eightmonth-old cross-breed with marked Saluki and retriever influences was adopted by Warrant Officer second class Dave Forster and seven other members of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps Expeditionary Forces Institute ( RAOC/EFI ) unit based at Jubail , Saudi Arabia , during the Gulf War . |
| 5 | This aircraft , which was much admired by the many members and friends of the Branch who came to see it , had been active during the Gulf conflict . |
| 6 | During the Gulf conflict most attention in America and Britain was directed at Germany 's constitutional inability ( some would say unwillingness ) to commit any troops outside NATO territory . |
| 7 | These would be better able to market its strengths ( which are being shown to advantage during the Gulf war , for which Lloyd 's is putting together imaginative war insurance where other markets fear to tread ) . |
| 8 | The airlines that fly between them were hit much less severely than American and European rivals by the slump in air travel during the Gulf war and they are bouncing back more quickly . |
| 9 | American officials assured Turkey during the Gulf war that the United States would not even contact the Kurdish opposition in Iraq . |
| 10 | Among the material contained in the KGB files are the Soviet version of the attempted CIA assassination of Fidel Castro ; the biography of a high-level Soviet scientist known as Tolkachov whose spying on behalf of the CIA during the 1980s led to a devastating penetration of the Soviet radar defence system and , in 1987 , Tolkachov 's execution ; and the revelation of joint CIA–KGB operations during the Gulf war that led to the pre-emptive destruction of much of Saddam Hussein 's offensive missile power . |
| 11 | Once accorded head-of-state treatment throughout the Arab world , Mr Arafat has been in sharply reduced circumstances since his ill-judged support for Saddam Hussein during the Gulf crisis . |
| 12 | They were scarcely damaged when hit by bombers during the Gulf war . |
| 13 | During the Gulf war we saw Muslims openly praying for the defeat of our boys . |
| 14 | He is impressed , and depressed too , by the superior technology he has seen on exercises and on television during the Gulf War — the speed and accuracy of US helicopters , the manoeuvrability of their boats , the sensitivity of their detection equipment . |
| 15 | This instinctive anti-Americanism was revealed most clearly during the Gulf War , in which the pretence that the Basic Law prevented them from sending troops was a mere figleaf for their initial failure to offer any political support to the American-led campaign ( Genscher remained silent for a week after the fighting began , although he and Kohl tried to make amends later ) and for their inexcusable prevarication about supporting Turkey in the event of an attack by Iraq . |
| 16 | During the Gulf crisis , we are seeing a comeback of the old colonial ‘ values ’ : the West has a ‘ moral duty ’ to resolve other nations ' problems ; Western ‘ civilisation ’ comes to the rescue of nations incapable of solving their own problems . |
| 17 | During the Gulf War Dr. Winfield was required to establish a forward field hospital to cope with an expected flood of casualties which , happily , did not materialise . |
| 18 | GILLES PETERSON , head of the Phonogram offshoot Talkin Loud , has been reinstated as director/DJ of London 's Jazz FM station , after being sacked for playing anti-war songs during the Gulf crisis . |
| 19 | THE WAR movie died a death during the Gulf War . |
| 20 | But given the quality of MI5 's intelligence displayed during the Gulf war , when it was used as evidence against alleged Iraqi fifth columnists , increased involvement by the agency does not inspire confidence . |
| 21 | During the Gulf war , the remnants of the soft left regrouped and began to meet weekly at the Westminster Arms . |
| 22 | The 55-year-old 's icy calm distinguished him as one of General Norman Schwarzkopf 's closest aides during the Gulf War . |
| 23 | The princess confessed to being worried for his safety during the Gulf War . |
| 24 | Bosnian officials cancelled the planned Mercury cardphones , used by troops during the Gulf war , because they are desperate for cash . |
| 25 | Mercury had expected to provide a non-profit service with Cable and Wireless like its morale-booster during the Gulf war . |
| 26 | And he also entertained the troops during the Gulf War . |
| 27 | The paper 's QC , George Carman , told the High Court jury that by taking his family on a free Spanish holiday with Mrs Bauwens during the Gulf crisis , Mr Mellor had made a serious error of judgment . |
| 28 | He took a holiday he should not have done during the Gulf War crisis when this country was facing its greatest possible crisis . |
| 29 | During the Gulf War , an American jet fired on and killed nine British soldiers in the desert . |
| 30 | AN SAS hero survived daring undercover operations during the Gulf War — only to be killed by a mate 's tragic blunder on a peacetime exercise . |