Simon Sebag Montefiore

I was driving across Georgia with a warlord and his bodyguards riding shotgun with their Kalashnikovs in a convoy of Mercedes and Land Rovers. The guy put on Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' on a cassette, which they played on loudspeakers as we raced across the mountains, and I remember thinking, 'This sure beats respectable life in England.

British Historian

Erik Larson

It was a civilian ship, and the Lusitania could outrun any submarine. So this population of people was very confident that Cunard and the Royal Navy would be looking after them. Why weren't they under convoy? That's the real question.

American Author

Igor Stravinsky

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Russian Composer

Bob Feller

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

Athlete

Alex Morrison

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

Canadian Soldier

Pankaj Mishra

In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.

Indian Novelist

Convoys are often used to suggest safety due to multiple vehicles or ships being together.

Safety in Numbers

The term 'convoy' is frequently used in military contexts for coordinated movements.

Military Context

'Convoy' can evoke historical maritime trade protection tactics used during wars.

Historical Significance

As a verb, 'convoy' implies active participation in moving or escorting for protection.

Active Support

'Convoying' suggests that the accompanying party takes responsibility for safety.

Implying Care

Verb form often relates to organized movements of large or valuable items.

Large-Scale Movement

 we have to deal with different rebel group and if any different voice moving immediately they will sink we are transporting women or smuggling a human and they will shoot us we have to deal if there is air strike if the Russian will pump this convoy we were aware that the animal make big noise but the animal

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 nothing all that bad this was probably the seventh mission another run-of-the-mill raid we felt invincible I know I did not long into the mission we started to realize that this was not as we expected the firefight surrounding the convoy was unprecedented the longer

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 he tried to blow up an Israeli military convoy with a grenade. He failed, fortunately, but he was still sentenced to seven years in prison. When he was in prison, they showed a film about the Holocaust. Up until that point,

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 a ship which was taking so many containers of goods that when they were unloaded, if the lorries had all gone in convoy, they would have been 100 kilometers long. This is how our world is now connected.

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 On the eve of Princess Diana's funeral, the royal family is returning to London, hoping perhaps to quell some of the criticism of their actions since Diana's death. The queen's convoy arrived in London.

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 with her loader on its way to kavik sue attempted to meet the convoy to guide them to camp safely but dangerous conditions forced her to return home and checking on the status and safety of the

Poor Visibility and Cold...

 hail with a battery of new gadgets but first they must find bad weather because I think Missouri Valley kind of puts his equidistance together target for weeks on end their convoy Criss

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 cheetah has three operational modes the mode I've been showing you which I'm about to activate again follow me autonomous and convoy or daisy chain and

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 but a bigger challenge looms now deep within the convoy an enemy transport lies straight ahead

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 search for edible birch seeds they travel along the twigs in convoy

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