Sentence examples for back an army from inspiring English sources

Rebels hold several districts there and have tried to push back an army counteroffensive.

Islamic State militants launched attacks near oil facilities in northern Libya on Monday but were pushed back, an army official has said.

Shouting the Spanish civil war slogan "No pasaran" - "They shall not pass" - more than 300,000 people turned back an army of Blackshirts.

By the afternoon, after a standoff in Ankara, the capital, the government had wrested back an army headquarters building held by coup plotters.

Furthermore, the prolonged conflict is costing more casualties on both sides every day, as rebel fighters with little more than small arms seek to push back an army of tanks and artillery.

After taking the capital, Dresden, and pushing back an army under the command of Napoleon's brother, Jérôme Bonaparte, the Austrians were effectively in control of all of Saxony.

A different hurdle faces Nicaragua, where the United States backed an army of contra rebels that fought the Sandinista government until it ultimately called free elections in 1990.

It is no accident that the Sunni monarchies have been turning away from America: backing an army coup against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, attacking fighters in Libya without forewarning America and, rushing into Yemen to take on Iranian-funded Houthis.But before blaming this mess on Mr Obama's nuclear diplomacy, consider two arguments.

They had been shot in the back of an army truck.

But on almost every front, they find themselves falling back, like an army under surprise attack from within and without.

In 2005 Mr Scott decided to fight back, hiring an army of public-relations experts to point out the many benefits to society provided by Wal-Mart.