9 sentences with 'mobile'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mobile and other words derived from it.
• « The world's first mobile assembly line appeared in the spring of 1913 in the magnet department. »
• « Things were different in the east, however. In contrast to the essentially static nature of trench warfare on the Western Front, the Russian, German and Austrian armies in the east were highly mobile, sometimes crossing hundreds of miles in an attempt to outflank their enemies. »
• « Blitzkrieg (lightning war) had originally been conceived by a French officer, Charles de Gaulle, in a military tactical plan for mobile warfare. It was rejected by the French General Staff but was taken over by the Germans and implemented by the Wehrmacht. The irony is that de Gaulle would become the leader of the anti-Nazi Free French forces in the war after France itself surrendered. »
• « The French in particular failed to realise the potential of tank warfare: they treated tanks more as mobile artillery platforms than as weapons in their own right, and had no armoured divisions, only tanks interspersed with infantry divisions. »
• « As German armies advanced into Soviet territory, they were followed by four teams of Einsatzgruppen - mobile killing squads - tasked with killing "Jews, Gypsies and the disabled". The Einsatzgruppen's technique for murdering their victims was to march the Jews into the woods or camps and systematically shoot them. »
• « The Einsatzgruppen (Nazi mobile killing squads) and the local helpers they recruited were responsible for approximately 1 million deaths over the course of the war. The Einsatzgruppen were assisted by regular units of the Wehrmacht (German army) and by battalions of the Order Police, a hybrid of police force and national guard mobilised for the war effort. »
• « Many members of the Einsatzgruppen (German mobile killing squads) suffered from mental breakdowns from murdering innocent people day after day. There were never many Einsatzgruppen to begin with: four teams with about 6,000 soldiers assigned to them in total. »
• « The idea of mobile doctors is another example of his inventiveness. When he visited the Maseno hospital in Kenya in 1992, he found that there were very few patients. Poor people could not afford to travel there, let alone the cost of care. Braw entrusted the solution to Jarl Magnusson, a 62-year-old general practitioner from Sunne, Sweden, who had the experience of a year of voluntary service in Sudan. »