no-fly zone
noun
technical
: an area where military airplanes are not allowed to fly during a conflict or war
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The pact had both sides agreeing to reduce border tensions, establish a no-fly zone along the Demilitarized Zone and cease live-fire artillery drills.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
But beware of arriving on July 26, the day of the Games’ opening ceremony, when a no-fly zone across the airspace of Paris will prevent planes from taking off or landing for some six hours, according to the Associated Press.
—Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Contributor, CNBC, 19 July 2024
Less that two years later, the ship fired 10 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Iraq, which had violated no-fly zone sanctions in the region.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
Remarkably, these obligations were spelled out with much greater precision than NATO’s Article 5: imposing a no-fly zone, supplying weapons, or directly intervening with the guarantor state’s own military force.
—Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
Placing Mitchell on the same field as Patrick Surtain Jr. would create a no-fly zone in the Mile High City.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
Early in the war, Kyiv and many of its supporters called for a no-fly zone, but Western leaders refused to impose one, fearing an air-to-air clash between NATO and Russian aircraft.
—Austin Carson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
The no-fly zone proposal has faded from public commentary, making the escalation avoided by rejecting it easy to overlook.
—Austin Carson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
The no-fly zone that Washington imposed over Iraq from 1991 to 2003 protected Iraqi Kurds from Saddam’s massacres and enabled them to build a relatively successful autonomous state.
—Thomas Carothers, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
But beware of arriving on July 26, the day of the Games’ opening ceremony, when a no-fly zone across the airspace of Paris will prevent planes from taking off or landing for some six hours, according to the Associated Press.
—Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Contributor, CNBC, 19 July 2024
Less that two years later, the ship fired 10 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Iraq, which had violated no-fly zone sanctions in the region.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
Remarkably, these obligations were spelled out with much greater precision than NATO’s Article 5: imposing a no-fly zone, supplying weapons, or directly intervening with the guarantor state’s own military force.
—Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
Placing Mitchell on the same field as Patrick Surtain Jr. would create a no-fly zone in the Mile High City.
—Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2024
Early in the war, Kyiv and many of its supporters called for a no-fly zone, but Western leaders refused to impose one, fearing an air-to-air clash between NATO and Russian aircraft.
—Austin Carson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
The no-fly zone proposal has faded from public commentary, making the escalation avoided by rejecting it easy to overlook.
—Austin Carson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
The no-fly zone that Washington imposed over Iraq from 1991 to 2003 protected Iraqi Kurds from Saddam’s massacres and enabled them to build a relatively successful autonomous state.
—Thomas Carothers, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023
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