(1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
(2) The group was one of the few in Syria to have received anti-tank rockets and had regularly used them against Syrian armour.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An armoured vehicle manned by pro-Russian rebels leaves Donetsk in the direction of the MH17 crash site.
(4) He explained that in Iraq , vehicles loaded with explosive devices only had their hazard warning lights on.” When Fitzsimons applied for a job in Iraq with the security firm Armour Group Security , owned by G4S, he didn’t tell his family.
(5) France was meanwhile leading a push, which diplomats said was backed by Britain, to hit more strategic military targets in Libya, beyond tactical airstrikes on Gaddafi's armour in the vicinity of cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya.
(6) - 16: Ukrainian troops turn back from Slavyansk after pro-Russians seize six armoured vehicles.
(7) In January last year, Rupert Hamer, defence correspondent of the Sunday Mirror, became the first British journalist to be killed in Afghanistan when the armoured vehicle in which he was travelling was hit by a roadside bomb.
(8) This soft body armour was applied, either in direct contact with the thoracic wall of the animals, or with different plastic foam sheets, so-called trauma packs, between the armour and the skin.
(9) Speaking outside Battlesbury barracks in Warminster, Wiltshire, Stenning said: "Barely 48 hours ago, we heard the terrible news that six soldiers from The 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment were declared missing, believed killed, after their Warrior armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.
(10) The Americans went first, a great convoy of armoured Jeeps snaking out from their fortified embassy under air cover.
(11) On the ground in east Ukraine , a rebel armoured column moved from the town of Novoazovsk, seized last week, in the direction of Mariupol, a major port city that the Ukrainians have said they will defend against any assault.
(12) Triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) were measured by radioimmunoassay in Pronase hydrolysates of four lots each of 1- and 2-grain tablets of desiccated thyroid (Thyroid, Armour) and thyroglobulin (Proloid, Warner-Chilcott).
(13) Two mammoth C17 military transport aircraft were on the tarmac, one of which landed in front of us, the other unloading jeeps and armoured vehicles.
(14) Shadowtroopers and AT-AT walkers should keep the geeks happy At-AT walkers Photograph: YouTube Black-armoured stormtroopers have featured in numerous (largely non-canonical) Star Wars novels, games and comic books over the years, but never in the movies themselves.
(15) In Bani Walid, south of Tripoli, tank transporters carrying dirty armoured fighting vehicles drew a small crowd, and an appreciative volley of machine gun fire.
(16) Police cracked down on the protests with a militarised presence including armoured vehicles and dozens of armed officers in riot gear .
(17) The six trained together, were dispatched to Afghanistan together and, in the end, perished together when their armoured vehicle was hit by a massive Taliban bomb.
(18) US aircraft have targeted armoured vehicles and militant positions in a second day of strikes against Islamic State forces.
(19) "We have been promised a mobile strike force of 800 men with up-armour [shaped to deflect road mines] and advanced weaponry.
(20) I only saw one chink in Rowland’s impassive armour: his customary nod to the judge, as Mitting left, accompanied by a movement of the lips that looked very like “thank you”.
Panoply
Definition:
(n.) Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor.
Example Sentences:
(1) SimCity, of course, handed this panoply of powers to the player.
(2) But the county authorities, along with Montana's state election officials, have steadfastly refused to grant the request, offering a panoply of excuses, many of them contradictory.
(3) In addition, much of it comes from the panoply of neurotransmitters available, of which the neuropeptides represent a major portion.
(4) Members of the Ig gene superfamily play a major role in the development and operation of the immune and nervous systems, and any perturbation of their expression would be anticipated to produce a panoply of signs and symptoms, such as those characterizing the AT phenotype.
(5) The US government believes there are 20 to 30 Americans currently fighting in Syria for the panoply of jihadist groups there, according to a senior official.
(6) As expected, the White House’s announcement included visa bans, asset freezes and export licence denials on a panoply of top Russian officials and firms as reprisal for the continuing destabilisation of eastern Ukraine .
(7) Both the administration and Congress intend the legislation to join a panoply of recent moves to bolster cybersecurity, including February’s announced creation of a consolidated center within the intelligence agencies for analysis of internet-borne threats.
(8) Particularly arresting were the new uses Bush was making of her voice: tracks such as Pull Out the Pin and Suspended in Gaffa teemed with a panoply of exaggerated accents and jarring phrasings, as Bush applied thespian emphasis on particular words or syllables, and developed a whole new vocabulary of harsh shrieks and throat-scorched yelps.
(9) The study identifies a whole panoply of strategies used by mothers in response (only mothers were questioned for the research), some of which frankly don't sound much like strategies at all.
(10) For under £100, a panoply of Android handsets are now available too, which Google claims offer the full smartphone experience.
(11) But that old attitude has been largely overtaken by a panoply of so-called scientific techniques to reduce the "stress" of the whole occasion.
(12) Print brands donate content to Facebook in hopes of generating return traffic [and revenue] but seem disappointed,” said Group M. “Facebook is a simpler, better-sold alternative to print’s competing panoply.” For TV broadcasters, growth has been cut from 7.4% at the beginning of this year to just 2.6% by year end.
(13) The modern smoker is confronted with a highly engineered, complex composite of specially designed paper, tobacco, tobacco additives, and a panoply of filters, a far cry from the hollow reed Columbus saw.
(14) The memo explains that just as consumers now blame cigarette companies for lung cancer, so they will end up blaming food companies for obesity, unless a panoply of defensive strategies are put into action.
(15) Organisers expect 15,000 people daily at the gathering, which is supported by Greenpeace, Oxfam, the Via Campesina international peasant movement and a panoply of other participants including Ukranian green education pioneers, survivors of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, organic food organisations, the 100 Million Trees programme and ITPA, a Brazilian conservation group.
(16) He went on to hit the full panoply of liberal issues.
(17) The developmentally disabled, specifically those mentally incompetent from birth, are entitled to a full panoply of constitutional rights and protections.
(18) It is based on a panoply of technical procedures of surgical reconstruction.
(19) Kinani told the Guardian the security forces and Hashd al-Shaabi or popular mobilisation units, the name given to the panoply of militias taking part in the campaign, had taken control of Tikrit general hospital, not far from the city centre, as well as parts of Tikrit University.
(20) Today is no exception; a panoply of images of celebrating Andy Murray's win at Wimbledon .