Sentence examples for a strong enemy from inspiring English sources

In any case, even as the attack was about to burst upon them, when Yankee officers in the most forward camps began reporting a strong enemy presence in their fronts, Sherman threatened to have them arrested for spreading false rumors.

The Yankee soldiers had not been told to fortify their positions -- in fact, were ordered not to -- which left them camping in the open like Boy Scouts, despite mounting reports from the most forward camps of a strong enemy presence.

Four days later, on 5 February, Fegelein on his own initiative led an attack on a strong enemy group northwest of Tschertolino.

He told The Christian Post, "We are up against a monster, we are up against a strong enemy and that is capitalism, greed, and prioritizing that greed over the need of the vulnerable people in this society".

Badlu Singh, 14th Murray's Jat Lancers * On 2 September 1918 on the west bank of the River Jordan, Palestine, when his squadron was charging a strong enemy position, Ressaidar Badlu Singh realised that heavy casualties were being inflicted from a small hill occupied by machine-guns and 200 infantry.

Navarre decided to go ahead with the operation, despite operational difficulties which would later become painfully obvious (but at the time may have been less apparent) because he had been repeatedly assured by his intelligence officers that the operation had very little risk of involvement by a strong enemy force.

Recurrently, the court records show, witnesses found it deplorable that the defendants should have to fight for their survival in a prisoner's dock when they might be far better employed doing that on the battlefield; in their every utterance these witnesses reflected the view that losing soldiers of Meserve's calibre could result only in gaining a stronger enemy.

In order for this concentrated force to be able to bring its power to bear on a reluctant opponent (or to avoid an encounter with a stronger enemy fleet), battlefleets needed some means of locating enemy ships beyond horizon range.

The plot involves the use of subterfuge against a stronger enemy, and the poem analyzes moral dilemmas faced by the Polish insurgents who would soon launch the November 1830 Uprising.

Rommel argued that such an attack was "far too close to the front and bound to bring us up against strong enemy reserves," an appraisal that was soon proven accurate.

One of the factors that can make mass psychogenic illness more intractable is a strong plausible enemy.