Airstrips in a sentence

Further, there was greater collaboration among domestic agencies through several successful joint operations; the discovery and destruction of illegal airstrips, and sharing of information on trans-shipment routes – maritime & air.

If approved, the Willow Project would construct up to 250 wells, two airstrips, and a network of gravel roads, pipelines, plus a new central processing facility in a remote, ecologically sensitive corner of the Arctic.

I then thought about some of those improvised island airstrips built by the U.S. Navy Seabees in the South Pacific during World War II.

With Khartoum airport disabled after battles that left charred aircraft on the runways, many foreigners were airlifted out from smaller airstrips, to countries including Djibouti and Jordan.

According to the group, private airstrips also increase access to remote areas, facilitating humanitarian aid and medical evacuations.

Airstrips will be constructed in every district.

Along with six airports, 25 airstrips have been developed in the state.

Keyamo also addressed security concerns, assuring Nigerians that stringent measures are in place for private airstrips.

Speculators were bulldozing farmland into airstrips anywhere they thought they could generate enough business, and manufacturers produced kit planes that even those of modest means could purchase.

Habonimana added that there are also plans to make operational regional airstrips such as Kamembe.

The Department of Transportation and Works' website says it owns the Nain airstrip, one of 12 such airstrips it operates in Labrador.

The mission planners’ hope was that this would help the attackers locate and destroy all the dispersed and camouflaged aircraft hidden close to the airstrips.

Traffickers are no doubt attracted by this country’s poorly monitored ports, remote airstrips, intricate river networks, porous land borders, and weak security sector capacity.

Amphibian aircraft have been vital to the development of the country as they are able land both on airstrips and on water.

As part of infrastructure improvements in 2002, the runway at Bamako was extended, and new airstrips were built in previously isolated areas of the west—Kayes, Mopti, and Sikasso.

At the end of the Soviet period there were about 50 airports and airstrips in Kyrgyzstan, many of them built primarily to serve military purposes in this border region so close to China.

Daily flights linked the three main islands, and air service was also available to Mahoré; each island had airstrips.

Evidence of Darwin’s World War II history is found at a variety of preserved sites in and around the city, including ammunition bunkers, airstrips, oil tunnels and museums.

Greenland now has 18 airstrips, 14 of which are paved.

In the Pacific, where most of the construction work was needed, the Seabees landed soon after the Marines and built airstrips, bridges, roads, gasoline storage tanks, and Quonset huts for warehouses, hospitals, and housing.