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Jung Yeon-Je/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images South Korean K1 tanks using a floating bridge Tuesday during a river-crossing drill in Yeoju, about 70 kilometers from Seoul, part of an annual nine-day exercise involving tens of thousands of troops

Asia In Picture 2011

However, down to Council Grove he had no proper duties anyway; Grattan and I set the guards, and halts and starts seemed to determine themselves; when anything out of the way happened, like a river-crossing, the teamsters and guards saw to it, and since there were good fords and the weather was dry, all went smoothly enough.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Gorbachev pledged to move in that direction by withdrawing assault units, river-crossing equipment, and tanks that threaten a blitzkrieg through central Europe.

American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009

In addition, Coalition forces also destroyed four buildings that were found rigged with explosives and a river-crossing point that was being used to facilitate the movement of terrorists.

Archive 2008-01-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

As during the escape from Brooklyn, Washington's other daring river-crossing by night, the storm was again, decisively, a blessing and a curse -- a blessing in that it covered the noise of the crossing, a curse in that, with the ice on the river, it was badly slowing progress when time was of the essence.

HISTORY: 1776--WASHINGTON'S WAR 2007

For example, it makes sense to display the river-crossing game from

Game Theory Ross, Don 2006

If the hunter and the fugitive have regularly played games that structurally resemble this river-crossing game, then selection pressures will have encouraged habits in them that lead them both to play its NE strategies and to sincerely rationalize doing so by means of some satisfying story or other.

Game Theory Ross, Don 2006

South Side Railway was in a much more fortunate position than either of the other two by reason of its freedom from the river-crossing problem.

The Titan 2004

And if they pull it into built-up areas, they pulled it into, let's say, critical sites, like a river-crossing operation, it's tough to avoid casualties, and there will be, especially if we get pulled into the cities for that part of the fighting.

CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2002 2002

He described that sturdy wooden river-crossing that he had only later learned was called Thoradin Bridge.

The Reign of Istar Weis, Margaret 1992