"naval" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Who was still in Hue . . . in a Vietnam growing even more hostile to its ethnic-Chinese minority since the naval clashes over those damned islands.
- The battle was the first naval clash and first victory for the Royal Australian Navy.
- The Battle of Lilybaeum was the first naval clash between the navies of Carthage and Rome during the Second Punic War.
- During this naval clash Syrian missile boats launched missiles from within the port limits (actually launched while the missile boats were moored between the merchant ships in port).
- The Spratly Islands have been the site of a naval clash, in which over seventy Vietnamese sailors were killed just south of Chigua Reef in March 1988.
- Japan let the two ships escape, apparently into North Korean waters this morning, for fear that continued pursuit could lead to a naval clash with North Korea.
- But it said five North Korean patrol boats were also damaged in the firefight, possibly the fiercest naval clash since the Korean war ended in 1953.
- However, the decisive naval clash occurred at Salamis, where Xerxes' invasion fleet was decisively defeated.
- On 27 May, North Korea announced that it would scrap an agreement aimed at preventing accidental naval clashes with South Korea.
- There have been occasional naval clashes over the Spratly Islands.
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