"base" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As for Prince Sultan air base, American military commanders declined a request to visit, arguing that it is a Saudi base.
- Saudi bases played a crucial role in the 1991 Persian Gulf war, and disrupting their use now could complicate any airstrikes against Iraq, officials said.
- We know the date and the French city where they hired him, to lead the land attack on the big Saudi military bases at Khamis Mushayt.
- The United States would need permission to use Saudi airspace adjacent to Iraq, if not Saudi bases themselves, officials said.
- Saudi bases and oil fields under attack by Iranian bombers.
- That trend was capped at a sprawling Saudi military base last Friday by the first face-to-face meeting between Mr. Clinton and the King.
- But he nonetheless said Saudi Arabia would not allow the United States to use Saudi bases to stage any future attack against Iraq.
- It is ostensibly a Saudi base, but the American troops operate within a secure perimeter inside the main base.
- During the war in Afghanistan, for instance, the Saudis prohibited American planes from flying missions from Saudi bases.
- Washington put up with this because Saudi bases were ideally located for patrolling southern Iraq's no-flight zone.
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