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Example sentences for "naval force"

  • Secondly, naval force, the arm of offensive power, which alone enables a country to extend its influence outward.

  • The thing had to be done, if the national fleet was to be other than an impotent parody of naval force, a costly effigy of straw.

  • New Zealand does not propose to organise a naval force of her own, but will assist the British Admiralty with a subsidy.

  • Unless a naval force--whatever its size--complies with this condition, it can never take its proper place in the organisation of an Imperial Navy distributed strategically over the whole area of British interests.

  • The great interests which the United States have in the Pacific, in commerce and in the fisheries, have also made it necessary to maintain a naval force there.

  • It has also been found necessary to maintain a naval force on the Pacific for the protection of the very important interests of our citizens engaged in commerce and the fisheries in that sea.

  • I hope our land office will rid us of our debts, and that our first attention then will be, to the beginning a naval force, of some sort.

  • The operations for obtaining this peace shall be constant cruises on their coast, with a naval force now to be agreed on.

  • Arms and a naval force, however, are what must ultimately save us.

  • Next to a naval force, horse seems to be the most capable of protecting a country so intersected by waters.

  • While these reverses occurred by land, it was observed with satisfaction that the colonies abounded in materials and resources requisite for building up a naval force; and in some of the colonies vessels were arming.

  • Our expectation of gaining the command of the Lakes by the invasion of Canada from Detroit having been disappointed, measures were instantly taken to provide on them a naval force superior to that of the enemy.

  • To an active external commerce the protection of a naval force is indispensable.

  • And even if all the States had separately passed laws prohibiting the importation of slaves, these laws would have failed of effect for want of a naval force to capture the slavers and to guard the coast.

  • A naval force, which no longer represented a Government in possession of even a part of its territory, was on the high road to fall into sheer piracy.

  • In regard to the waters beyond he could give no guarantee, since he had no naval force.

  • To secure respect for a neutral flag requires a naval force, organized and ready, to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

  • But by the treaty of Goolistan, Persia engaged not to maintain a naval force on the Caspian.

  • A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.

  • Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.

  • An inspection, as of troops under arms or of a naval force, by a high officer, for the purpose of ascertaining the state of discipline, equipments, etc.

  • Land force, a military force serving on land, as distinguished from a naval force.

  • Should his Majesty grant the aids requested, and send to our assistance a naval force, you will take advantage of that conveyance for forwarding the articles furnished.

  • So, also, if the obstruction be to the laws of the Territory, and it be duly presented to him as a case of insurrection, he may employ for its suppression the militia of any State or the land or naval force of the United States.

  • To protect our fishermen in the enjoyment of their rights and prevent collision between them and British fishermen, I deemed it expedient to station a naval force in that quarter during the fishing season.

  • A naval force competent to defend your coasts against considerable armaments, to convoy your trade, and perhaps raise the blockade of your rivers, is not a chimera.


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