10 sentences with 'supplied'
Example sentences and phrases with the word supplied and other words derived from it.
• « The spy Arne Treholt continuously supplied the Russians with Norwegian and NATO positions, many times before important ministerial assemblies. »
• « Thus, Isabella of Spain was not alone in financing explorers seeking to reach the East by easier routes when she supplied Columbus with her ships and sailors. »
• « At its worst, the Cold War resulted in "proxy wars" between anti-communists led or at least supplied by the United States and communist insurgents inspired and occasionally supported by the Soviet Union or communist China (from 1949 onwards). »
• « When Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Germany's foreign minister, visited Israel in January 1990 during the Persian Gulf War, he was supplied with information about German-made components found in Scud missiles that had fallen on Tel Aviv and Haifa. The Iraqi Scuds, he was told, might not have reached Israel without the assistance of German experts. »
• « Estimates from the best-informed US intelligence sources suggest that Germany supplied most of Iraq's nuclear, biological and chemical power. Moreover, the German government was aware of all such transactions. »
• « The German company HH Metalform supplied the machinery to make the centrifuge components needed to process the highly enriched uranium required for the nuclear devices. Another German company, Export-Union, supplied the specially hardened steel used in the rotors of the centrifuge machines. »
• « For example, the Niger River basin supplied gold to Berber and Arab traders from west of the Nile Valley, who brought cloth, weapons and manufactured goods into the interior. »
• « The huge Saharan salt mines supplied the vital mineral to Africa's Mediterranean coast and inland areas. »
• « As Africans were already familiar with animal husbandry as well as agriculture, had an identifiable skin colour and could be easily supplied by the existing African slave trade, they proved to be the answer to this need. This process laid the foundation for the expansion of New World slavery in the Americas. »