Sentence examples for a delaying action from inspiring English sources

The only course was to fight a delaying action against an overwhelmingly superior force, no matter the cost.

Nixon assured them that he was "extremely pro-business" and said that the best way to protect Ford was "a delaying action".

Somewhere along the Shabakunk in early 1777, the Colonials fought a delaying action against General Cornwallis that figured somehow in the Battle of Princeton.

Mr. Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, a conservative defense analysis group, described Mr. Levin's technical requirements for deploying missile defense as "a delaying action".

On the morning of the 8th, Napoleon had only 41,000 men to the Russians' 63,000, and he fought a delaying action until his reinforcements arrived.

Although superior German strength forced him to retreat, he had intended merely to cover the withdrawal of the French 5th Army, and as a delaying action the battle was a success.

fragmentation high explosive, with a delayed action fuse.

There was a delayed action because no one saw the puck go in at first.

The missile warhead is filled with a penetrating blast/fragmentation high explosive, with a delayed action fuse.

A near-term mitigation of short-lived heating components could lead to a delayed action on CO2 and other long-lived greenhouse gases and thus an increased long-term warming.

Not many disagreed – except we were not to know that Mayweather, in contradiction of his public teasing, was engineering a tidal-wave moment of his own creation, a delayed action extravaganza to wipe away the glamour and records of all that had gone before.