Sentence examples for encirclement and from inspiring English sources

After joining forces with communist guerrillas, one of Peng's first actions was to save Mao, whose forces were being encircled by Kuomintang units: Peng broke the encirclement and drove the enemy off.

To continue to spook Russians about American encirclement and internal meddling will be hard to sustain.

It also caused a gap between the two forces, allowing Soviet forces to escape encirclement and retreat to the east.

But he said they managed to break through the Ukrainian encirclement and withdraw with all of their tanks and vehicles.

But it was, above all, the sense of encirclement and humiliation that united the deeply divided Japanese government.

Within a month, the Germans advance more than 300 miles and Soviet losses number in the millions due to the encirclement and destruction of entire armies.

(He may be succeeding. On Friday, people began to evacuate Darayya, near Damascus; the population has apparently capitulated, after four years of encirclement and assault).

Each of the powers now appears to fear encirclement, and even eventual defeat, by one or both of the two others.

It is a film which gestures at the literal incomprehensibility of experience, how it resists encirclement and extends beyond the perimeters of perception and interpretation.

He issued the order to continue the encirclement of Kharkov, despite the fact that at this time many army concentrations actually were threatened with encirclement and liquidation.

Clark said Putin continued to be motivated by fear of encirclement and the imposition on Russia of western political and civil rights agendas.