Sentence examples for a reserve position from inspiring English sources

"There is one place then a reserve position.

The third platoon was in a reserve position on the second ridge.

The sharpshooters of the Brunswick Advance Guard regiment were sent to support Dutch skirmishers in Bossou Wood on the Allied right (western) flank; the rest of the corps took up a reserve position across the Brussels road.

He placed the 2nd Battalion in a reserve position 8 mile behind the 1st Battalion and in a position where it commanded the road net in the regimental sector.

However, the resistance of the Australians ultimately allowed them to safely withdraw and the Middlesex then moved into a reserve position astride the western bank of the river in order to provide depth to the brigade defence.

Here, they were supposed to get a short rest but Japanese forces unexpectedly attacked the position on the first evening, penetrating the left center of his line of resistance, forcing a withdrawal to a reserve position.

As a consequence, the 46th Infantry Division was moved up 8.1 mile to the south west to a new reserve position at Et Tire, directly behind the Ottoman XXII Corps's front line divisions.

This division began arriving near Tulkarm on 16 September and the 46th Infantry Division, in reserve near the Eighth Army's headquarters at Tulkarm moved 13 km to the south west on 17 September to a new reserve position at Et Tire, to reinforce the XXII Corps holding the coastal sector.

When the enemy, in a subsequent series of violent assaults, engaged our force in desperate hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, rifles, pistols, grenades, and knives, Col. Edson, although continuously exposed to hostile fire throughout the night, personally directed defense of the reserve position against a fanatical foe of greatly superior numbers.

But Torre has not found an opportunity to use any of his reserve position players yet.

: Portisch and Smyslov contested a six game playoff in Portorož, Yugoslavia in early 1971 for the reserve position for the Candidates Tournament.