Examples of convoy

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Reflection on their convoys helps women evaluate the friendships that are available, in terms of their own needs and desires.
They would continue to meet the admiralty for the rest of the war to fine tune arrangements for convoys.
They also entertained those naval captains who successfully escorted convoys, rewarding them with presents and personally congratulating them in published resolutions in the newspapers.
The presence of new friends and improvement of existing friendships were reflected in the convoys.
The latter nearly always bowed to requests to delay individual convoys or to make alterations for the convenience of the merchants.
A total of 194 convoys of goods trains were to transport some 495,000 men, women and children.
Wickremesekera suggests that sepoys were originally trained to serve in a secondary military capacity such as guards for garrison duty and convoy escort.
At different points in the life course, members of the convoy may be lost either through death or through less radical changes.
Various exercises, such as drawing her convoy, made her aware of her network of social contacts that had been dormant the last two years.
Notably, the convoy approach also complemented the personnel practice of amakudari.
Nearly as many had served in other military capacities, ranging from boot camp trainers to naval convoy duty.
In the convoy, important relationships are identified and situated in three concentric circles around the self, arranged according to importance and closeness.
During the interview an important source of information was the convoy of relationships that women had filled in during the fifth meeting.
The convoy model contends that an individual's current network should be seen as the end-product of a chain of lifelong experiences and time-lagged exchanges.
Well-stocked shops ran the risk of being plundered, and traders ran the risk of being attacked if they travelled to villages without a military convoy.
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