Sentence examples for In the minefield from inspiring English sources

In the minefield of Paralympic description and labels, some frown on the idea that the athletes can cause others to be "inspired", as Simmonds suggested.

During these inspections, a Russian police commander mentioned the bodies lying in the minefield next to the station.

That offensive too became hung up in the minefield, and its prospects waned when Rommel opposed it with the veteran 90th Light Division.

We waited in the minefield on a patch that we knew was safe, because we knew that Isis couldn't get us there," she said.

Our ignorance allowed us to build something fast, but then of course we had to fix it on the run, because we were already in the minefield.

Abdul Sattar is a merchant of some means, but even he decided to accept the risks of living in the minefield.

Ships were to mine the entrance from the harbor and then lure the Russians into the minefield in the hopes of sinking a number of Russian warships.

"We have lost 30 people in the minefields in the past 11 years, but these four people, this is entirely different," he said.

The new attack, begun in the early hours of November 2, again bogged down in the minefields, and resistance proved tougher than expected.

My company of British infantry has driven the Germans out of a small desert town – a choke point in the minefields laid down by Rommel's Afrika Korps south of El Alamein – and is now fending off a counterattack.

By 08 45, however, they had anchored off the Mikailovsk Bank and the minesweepers began to clear a path in the minefields.