Sentence examples for a decisive offensive from inspiring English sources

He urged a mass mobilization for "a decisive offensive".

Being a Warlord Late in June, to great fanfare, the Pakistani military began what it described as a decisive offensive to rout the Taliban from Khyber agency, one of seven tribal areas that make up the FATA.

But if this signals a new German toughness, it is a stance that will build up over months or years, not in weeks.Doubling downAs Europe plays, at best, a long game, Mr Poroshenko is hoping to regain control of the east of his country with a decisive offensive.

Charles and Henry then proceeded to invade France, but the long sieges of Boulogne-sur-Mer and Saint-Dizier prevented a decisive offensive against the French.

The decisive offensive began in June, when a 3,000-strong 3,000-strongnvested Faya-LarGUNT, the main government stronghold in the North, which forceon 25 June.

And it took advantage of the distraction and power vacuum caused by the US presidential elections to launch this decisive offensive.

The decisive offensive in Kandahar Province - birthplace of the Taliban and heartland of Afghanistan's largest tribe, the Pashtuns - has been put on hold by Karzai until they win the support of tribal elders.

Trenchard had come out against Newall for his failure to launch a decisive strategic bombing offensive, while Salmond saw Newall's removal as the simplest way to replace Dowding as head of Fighter Command – despite Newall having also sought to sack Dowding.

She made a decisive decision.

Despite the above, the offensive was considered a decisive Syrian defeat by both sides.

Lenin's removal of the Russian government from what was then Petrograd to Moscow in March 1918, impelled by a feared German offensive, proved to be a decisive inward turn for Russia.