For the military, the cost of a sortie is critical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI? - NASA Watch] Reference

A sortie is a deployment or dispatch of one military unit.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

For Goodrich, the sortie was her first humanitarian mission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Air Force Times - News] Reference

The object of the sortie was a vague idea to push forward, if possible, to Versailles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris] Reference

As for the sortie, which is to revictual Paris, by forcing the Prussian lines, it is simply absurd to talk of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris] Reference

The goal of the "sortie" was to learn how to use a compass.    From Wordnik.com.  [epargner - French Word-A-Day] Reference

"Now that is the kind of sortie I know how to run," the sword put in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winds Of Fate]

Scrap the Constellation 'sortie' (Apollo redux) program and replace it with a dedicated lunar base program.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Mr. Augustine - NASA Watch] Reference

A strong sortie is expected to-night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol] Reference

Tickets for intermediate stations are given up at the "sortie"; those for termini, before the station is entered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris and Northern France] Reference

Successful sortie by Colonel Baden-Powell from Mafeking.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

The son of De Guzman was taken prisoner during a sortie.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

Five or six days before this, a sortie had been made from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

This sortie was to be made when a certain signal was given.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference

Two picket-guards made an unsuccessful sortie against them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

Lewis was brought in wounded from a Cottabato River sortie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

British sortie from Ladysmith, Lombard's Kop being carried.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

He told Thorvald what he had noted on the night of their sortie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Over Warlock] Reference

On June 27, 1763, the British made a sortie from the city to dislodge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

On 14 August -- just after the news of the disastrous sortie of the Port.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

The main line used to be 7 ... b5 8. 0-0 Be7, but Fischer's queen-sortie 9.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lubomir Kavalek: Fooling the Gullible Chess World] Reference

On the 18th of November, 1822, however, Madeira made a sortie, and was met by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference

Blake staked everything upon a last desperate sortie against the advancing things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zehru of Xollar] Reference

During the night we expected a sortie from the fort, and were provided for such an event.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

By this time, the object of the sortie was accomplished beyond my most sanguine expectations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

More men could only avail in case of breaking through the enemy's line or in repelling a sortie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

"What! You were in the sortie then?" exclaimed Boulanger, not a little excited by the narrative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference

Even today, years after my last sortie, I know the final sequence of a nuclear delivery by heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practicing For Armageddon] Reference

Then, just as the end of the caravan drags by, there is a sudden sortie and a rattling musket fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

Valdes hastened to Pampeluna, and on arriving there at once made a sortie with five or six thousand men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

But for an hour - or two-long sortie on a windy back road, there isn't much better -- especially at the price.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final thoughts: Mazda MX-5 Miata] Reference

No longer will commanders count sorties and tonnage of ordnance dropped, but rather targets destroyed per sortie!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance] Reference

In a sortie, Bernard forms an ambuscade, into which his brother unfortunately falls, and receives a mortal wound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

At length a sortie became indispensable to obtain provisions, but the enemy were too numerous to justify the risk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

If it had not been for the women and children, the men would have made a sortie and died facing overwhelming odds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

A part peut-être les quelques journalistes qui ont pu bénéficier des différents modèles quelque temps, au moment de leur sortie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference