Sentence examples for a lightning victory from inspiring English sources

The first test case is the battle for Qusayr, near the Lebanese border, where Hezbollah and the Syrian government expected a lightning victory that is already more than a week in coming.

The notion of war as a storm summons up the Nazi idea of a blitzkrieg, a lightning victory that would somehow resolve all of the political and economic problems of the German state.

The day after Amer's phone call, Israel launched a pre-emptive strike that smashed much of the Egyptian Air Force on the ground, and went on to win a lightning victory, haphazardly conquering the Sinai, Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.

Republicans said that the prospect of a lightning victory was raised in part by optimistic news media coverage and that they still expected Iraqi citizens to embrace the invasion as a way to end the regime of Saddam Hussein even though demonstrations so far have been muted.

After a lightning victory over Iraq that exceeded all expectations, America's fighting men and women are coming home as heroes to a country that--because of them--is no longer tormented by the humiliating memory of Vietnam.

What the popular version of the first world war overlooks is the fact that the small British army that went to war in 1914 was extremely effective, and fought well to prevent a lightning German victory.

This lightning victory in the Six-Day War occurred a half-century ago.

Bennett and Danon were being explicit about an aim implicit in Israeli actions — as opposed to words — since the lightning victory in the 1967 war delivered all the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River and ignited a strong vein of Israeli religious nationalism.

And then when we had reached the verdant and fertile valley of northern Galilee, Louis remembered a phone call that his unit had received only hours after Israel's earlier lightning victory in 1967.

In the United States, Israel was admired for its lightning victory that year.

Mr. Bush's lightning victory in Iraq intimidated those who favored the war but had reservations about the Bush approach.