Sentence examples for counterattacks from inspiring English sources

O'Connor was being diplomatic when he described the atmosphere as "awesome" but he certainly had the home support on the edges of a few seats as he helped launch a series of counterattacks in the closing minutes in a move of 25 phases, but the Northampton defence somehow held out.

But when boxers let their hands go, they cannot help but expose themselves to counterattacks.

Mr Abunimah points out that after heavy rocket fire at the end of October, Israeli sources reported just a few rockets until November 10th, when Palestinians fired a missile that hit an Israeli army jeep, leading to heavy Israeli counterattacks.

Asians and others responded with YouTube counterattacks; "ching-chong-ling-long" became a ringtone; UCLA declared itself outraged; and Ms Wallace apologised, then left the university.A year on, and the incident has spawned its own genre of local comedy, but nobody seems the least bit bothered by it anymore.

Desperate tree-to-tree infantry fighting, deadly French artillery fire, and repeated French cavalry counterattacks caused the Allies to suffer 22,000 killed and wounded to the 12,000 losses suffered by the French.

That action fulfilled Montgomery's calculation and enabled his armour, now established in good position, to inflict heavy losses on those spasmodic counterattacks.

Benítez built a superb counterattacking team round him at Liverpool, playing to his strengths, and the success was dazzling.

However, Sunday's appointment with Borussia Mönchengladbach, who will love to do to Dortmund what Dortmund do so well against nominally better sides – hit them with super-precise counterattacking football – is a pretty frightening prospect.

The Welsh back row, reunited after an ankle injury to Dan Lydiate, helped give Wales a solid forward platform and what is left of Wales's back line played with ambition personified by a counterattack from behind his own line in the first half by Scott Williams which could have given North his second try.

The teenage opener Usman Ghani clipped a leg-stump half-volley to straight midwicket in the first over from Australia's first-change and Asghar Stanikzai's attempt to counterattack resulted in a scythe down to third man, where Smith ran back and avoided a collision with Mitchell Marsh to take a steepling catch.

San Jose, bolstered by the continued saves and the dodged bullets began counterattacking and, almost like a movie script, tore apart the stunned Galaxy defense for three unanswered goals; two of those goals in stoppage time.