Sentence examples for be a broad offensive from inspiring English sources
Taken together, the statements by the Bundesbank and the central bank appeared to be a broad offensive aimed at closing the door on short-term concerns and easing the way for stability.
But in March 2002, as Palestinian violence reached a peak in what seemed daily attacks, Palestinian security officials learned that Israel was preparing a broad offensive into the West Bank.
The clashes suggested that American forces were being drawn more deeply into a broad offensive that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, launched in the southern city of Basra on Tuesday, saying death squads, criminal gangs and rogue militias were the targets.
The Ukrainian military said it was relaunching a broader offensive against separatist fighters following a day-long ceasefire but insisted troops would not carry out operations in the immediate vicinity of the crash site.
India's government last month banned the Maoist political party, with which the rebels are affiliated, after beginning a broad offensive against the rebels in several important states.
Since President Vicente Fox took office in December, "there has been a broad-based offensive against all of the cartels".
The exodus was occurring five days after a broad offensive by the rebels, in which they have collaborated with local fighters to seize strategic towns in a bid to shift the course of a stalled war.
The American-led coalinion in Afghanistan announced that two coalition soldiers died on Tuesday as a broad offensive against Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan was beginning.
At first the Philippine military threatened a broad offensive against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
