Sentence examples for countered the offensive from inspiring English sources

Rommel countered the offensive with a well-gauged armoured thrust against its flank.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has rejected calls for a national salvation government to help counter the offensive by jihadist-led Sunni rebels.

However, beginning in October 1950, the People's Republic of China conducted the First Phase Offensive, a surprise attack against the advancing United Nations forces, which were unprepared to counter the offensive.

The Division saw very heavy action at St. Vith, Echternach and Bastogne, its units, unprepared to counter the offensive, fighting in widely separated areas.

But strategists said Democrats could counter the Republican offensive by labeling the mosque dispute as a local issue and saying Democrats remain focused on the economy.

The Cyrix acquisition finally gives VIA Technologies ammunition to counter the Intel offensive.

Activists later reported government forces had launched strikes on Baba Amr to counter the rebel offensive.

Simultaneously, three U.S. carrier task forces under Fletcher approached Guadalcanal to counter the Japanese offensive efforts.

Following extensive discussions, North Vietnamese commanders concluded that the South Vietnamese army in the Central Highlands could mobilise about 5 7 regiment-sized units to counter the upcoming offensive.

The battle was the first of five costly, large scale sea and air-sea actions fought in support of the ground battles on Guadalcanal itself, as the Japanese sought to counter the American offensive in the Pacific.

The easiest – and therefore most plausible – counter to the offensive evolution is to find more versatile defensive players inside.