Sentence examples for devastating counterattack from inspiring English sources

The hosts appeared to be scoring at will midway through the second half as the visitors stood back and admired devastating counterattack after counterattack.

After this battle and other attacks by Cherokee warriors on British forts and settlements in the Anglo-Cherokee War, the southern British colonies launched a devastating counterattack against the Cherokee in 1760.

He watched as Netscape grew dramatically, brazenly challenged Microsoft's hold on the computer business and experienced a devastating counterattack.

In cold war days, deterrence was straightforward: any attack would result in a devastating counterattack, at a human cost so horrific that neither side pulled the trigger, even during close calls like the Cuban missile crisis.

According to MAD, the nuclear arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union were so large that neither could launch a nuclear first strike against the other without remaining vulnerable to a devastating counterattack.

In what was dubbed the "Game of the Century," Fischer sacrificed his queen on the 17th move to Byrne to set up a devastating counterattack that led to checkmate.

The standout mechanic is the ingeniously versatile burst cannon, ideal for defence, scoring or devastating counterattacks.

Sané released De Bruyne in one of those devastating counterattacks that start on the edge of their area and the Belgian showed some dexterous footwork before delivering an inch-perfect pass for Agüero, who took a touch before dispatching a superb shot beyond Steele and into the far corner.

They remain, though, the yardstick for other sides: proficient in the set pieces, expert at the breakdown and devastating on the counterattack.

But then Stoke counterattacked in devastating style.

But the sombre message from Mr Sharif was that there would be no more talk of peace, and that the army's counterattack on the group would be devastating.