Sentence examples for a full-scale offensive from inspiring English sources

In August 1940 Italian forces mounted a full-scale offensive and overran British Somaliland.

But there is also reluctance to order a full-scale offensive that could prove bloody and inconclusive.

Setting aside a newspaper he has been perusing, the husband reports that a full-scale offensive against the Americans in Okinawa is soon to begin.

But the explosion came as the Pakistani Army was planning a full-scale offensive in another tribal area, South Waziristan, the prime Taliban stronghold.

But since then, the Mexican president has cemented his hold on power, divided the main opposition party and taken up a full-scale offensive against drug cartels.

For American commanders, one reason for mounting a full-scale offensive on Sadr City would be to curb attacks on Baghdad.

It comes as the military is locked in renewed struggle with the Taliban and is preparing for what is sure to be a difficult, full-scale offensive in South Waziristan.

The military did not, however, depict the skirmishes as part of the full-scale offensive the government has signaled.

So I put into action the full-scale offensive I have been plotting ever since she gave me her old cardigan: I would upgrade the buttons.

At this "long Diet" the new generation of Hungary's reformers was mounting its first full-scale offensive against the absolutist and obscurantist system under which Hungary was then ruled from Vienna, and in its excited atmosphere Kossuth developed his political and social philosophy of advanced radicalism.

Parliamentary approval would bring Turkey the closest it has been since 2003 to a full-scale military offensive into Iraq.