Sentence examples for direct offensive from inspiring English sources

Redknapp's final message also had a nostalgic theme – a wish to return to the days when opposition supporters did not direct offensive chants at each other.

Germany may be offered a special deal because it, unlike France, does not have a record of conducting direct offensive operations against America.Home-grown constraints on America's spying are another question.

One noted example of this is the US funded Plan Colombia operation in South America which targeted organized crime and guerrilla groups through the development of the Colombian government's capacity to carry out direct offensive action, with a reported cost of over $8 billion.

Because of the resistance on both the northern and southern sides of Moscow, on 1 December the Wehrmacht attempted a direct offensive from the west along the Minsk-Moscow highway near the city of Naro-Fominsk.

Also known as Jorge Briceño, he is believed to have been behind the FARC's direct offensives against army posts in the early 1990s, a wave of kidnappings of politicians and many of the organisation's cocaine-trafficking operations.Since Juan Manuel Santos was sworn in as Colombia's president last month, the FARC had stepped up attacks on the military as a show of strength to the new government.

Further arrests were planned due to some protesters directing offensive language towards the police.

In a complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Manhattan, the E.E.O.C. said that supervisors, managers and co-workers of five "Haitian, Nigerian or West Indian employees" had directed offensive jokes at them and other minority workers.

Juan Mata, the Spain midfielder, also felt that Clattenburg had directed offensive language towards him and it is a key aspect of Chelsea's grievance that the referee is accused of using "inappropriate" language on separate occasions to different players.

Mr Gilbert said the voice directed offensive, sexualised words at their daughter Allyson, who was asleep in bed.

"They have been observed wearing hoods, directing offensive operations against government forces in Mogadishu and neighbouring regions," it said.

Although the Turks have launched a handful of directed offensives, they have so far refrained from doing too much damage.