Politician, during progressive period, is acquiring intelligence

Usage examples of reconnaissance.

Contrat-Social, Mont-Blanc, Guillaume-Tell, Brutus et cette autre, dont on ne peut jamais prononcer le nom sans un vif sentiment de reconnaissance, la Butte-des-Moulins.

Colonel Longo has launched two reconnaissance probes and expects to provide vectors for planetary defense interceptors within the next moon cycle.

After hiking the full length of the secure area, Longo and his retinue boarded the reconnaissance module and moved into its cramped lab.

The latest rumor was that the Senate Appropriations Committee had decided to scratch all the families off the voyage, which would essentially turn Outbound Flight into little more than an extended military reconnaissance mission.

Was the hypothesis of conflict between Quintan builders a premise on which future decisions of the reconnaissance had to be based?

By this time, of course, the imperialists will know who and what we are, from their slinking spies and cowardly reconnaissance aircraft.

Light aircraft were being hoisted out of the holds of Stath ships, assembled while woven metal landing strips were staked down, then rolled onto the strips to take off on reconnaissance missions.

Shortly before we reached the storeroom for undeliverable mail on the second floor, I formed the opinion, which was later to be confirmed, that in this desperate hour for the Polish Post Office and the whole of Poland, the Home Fleet was lying, nicely sheltered, in some firth in northern Scotland, and, as for the large French Army, that it was still at luncheon, confident that a few reconnaissance patrols in the vicinity of the Maginot Line had squared it with Poland and the Franco-Polish treaty of mutual defense.

Reconnaissance in person was an archaic and unprogressive procedure, and it was a good way to get generals killed, but one could see a lot of things that would be missed on TV.

The Whippet was delivered to Portobello Barracks in Dublin, but within a matter of days was sent to Limerick on a training and reconnaissance mission.

Thus, being asleep in a nook behind the metal refuse-can, when the strange cat ventured to ascend the steps of the porch, his appearance was so unwarlike that the cat felt encouraged to extend its field of reconnaissance for the cook had been careless, and the backbone of a three-pound whitefish lay at the foot of the refuse-can.

On the 12th of July Jack rode out with his commanding officer, who, with many others, accompanied the reconnaissance made by the Turks and French, on a foraging and reconnoitring party, towards Baidar, but they did not come in contact with the Russians.

None of the reconnaissance Bolos in the direct path of the missile strike survived, but the chaos and massive spikes of EMP generated by the missiles which killed them had a disastrous effect on the missiles which had acquired the rest of the Battalion.

When Camp Four is established they try several reconnaissance climbs through what Hans calls the Jasper Band.

In large commands it may often be necessary to give the order from the map, but usually the outpost commander will have to make some preliminary reconnaissance, unless he has an accurate and detailed map.