Sentence examples for a sharp engagement from inspiring English sources

Overt opposition to his rule surfaced in December 1960, when a dissident wing of the army secured control of Addis Ababa and was dislodged only after a sharp engagement with loyalist elements.

Unfortunately after a sharp engagement in the Knightsbridge Box, the Battalion was ordered to surrender when the Garrison in Tobruk capitulated.

In a sharp engagement the hired ships lost four wounded but successfully held back the gunboats during the battle.

In a sharp engagement the British ships inflicted severe damage to Sémillante before being driven off by a Spanish fort overlooking the strait.

An engagement took place and then a sharp battle in which the Boeotians, who far outnumbered the Phocians, defeated them.

Rewarded for his extraordinary work by an appointment to Minto's staff, Raffles sailed with him to Java, where the expeditionary force landed without mishap on Aug. 6, 1811, and, after a short and sharp engagement with the Dutch-French forces, occupied the island.

Krissdóttir's sympathetic immersion in the Powysian universe is balanced by a sharp critical engagement with Powys's work, and she uses recently discovered correspondence and diaries to provide a fuller portrait of his relationship with Phyllis Playter, his longtime companion and amanuensis.

The tonal change in Mrs. Clinton's campaigning away from sharp engagement with Mr. Obama could reflect cold political calculation: with elements of the party now coalescing around him, her own political legacy may be at stake in the few weeks remaining before primary voting comes to a close on June 3.

In the short and sharp engagement, ZG 26 lost five Bf 110s and another damaged to No. 56 Squadron.

The "Marauders" left Ledo, in Assam (February 1944), and marched several hundred miles through mountainous Burmese jungles to outflank the enemy, harass his lines of communication, and defeat him in a series of sharp engagements.

In May national troops entered the city and fought sharp engagements with the Communards, who set fire to the Hôtel de Ville, the Tuileries Palace, the Palace of Justice, the Police Prefecture, the Arsenal, and other government buildings.