Sentence examples for blocking position on the from inspiring English sources

The vehicles, as it happened, had encountered a large minefield along the left flank of a Qaddafi blocking position on the main road into town.

But in late January, hundreds of rebels from an Islamic brigade known as Soqour al-Sham, or the Falcons of Syria, gathered in Heesh and formed a blocking position on the western side of the road.

After the onset of financial distress, it could be that the cost of such a blocking position on the distressed debt market would be justified given a sufficiently large credit-default swap position.

The following morning US 1/187 RCT captured the high ground north of Sukchon and established a blocking position on the main highway running north.

The other troop was to land at Umtingalu and establish a blocking position on the coastal trail east of the peninsula.

A Company, 3 RAR subsequently occupied a blocking position on the Suoi Ba Pho creek, ambushing North Vietnamese moving northwards and directing mortar firing onto evasion routes, killing eight and capturing two.

They bypassed the headquarters and the American tanks nearby, surrounding the defenders and establishing blocking positions on the road to the south.

Regardless, the Chinese had succeeded in establishing blocking positions on the roads south of the Canadians, temporarily cutting them off from resupply.

The plan envisioned the 1st and 3rd Battalions, US 187 RCT dropping southeast of Sukchon to seize the town, before establishing blocking positions on the two main highways and the railway to Pyongyang.

Considering that the Viet Cong would attempt to withdraw as they had during previous encounters, forces from the 1 ATF would subsequently be inserted into blocking positions on the likely withdrawal route in an attempt to intercept and destroy them.

Considering that the Viet Cong would attempt to withdraw as they had during previous encounters, forces from 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF) would subsequently be inserted into blocking positions on the likely withdrawal route in an attempt to intercept and destroy them.