Sentence examples for encirclement in from inspiring English sources

The circumstances of Mr. Arafat's encirclement in Ramallah, with Israeli soldiers stationed right outside his door, make senior officials especially edgy.

Having fled from encirclement in the town of Ilovaysk, their column of 70 armoured vehicles and hundreds of soldiers was ambushed and shelled, according to one soldier.

Having survived a similar encirclement in Ilovaisk last August, he had critical words for military commanders, complaining that a lack of planning that left soldiers surrounded and vulnerable.

The rebel advances have left a number of pockets of Ukrainian military surrounded, but overnight Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the rebels to open a "humanitarian corridor" to allow the Ukrainian troops out of the encirclement in order to avoid unnecessary casualties.

As Bagramyan pushed towards Vitebsk, his forces were aided by the same Belorussian guerrilla fighters who had escaped the German encirclement in April.

At this decisive point, Hannibal ordered his African infantry to turn inwards and advance against the Roman flanks, creating an encirclement in one of the earliest known examples of a pincer movement.

The narrower range in % encirclements in the robotic group infers less variability in lesion delivery, suggesting better tissue contact.

The 19th Division was forced to retreat towards Kefri Kasim and the XXII Corps Eighth Armyy), threatened with encirclement, was in retreat towards Et Tire having lost most of its artillery.

The Russian media depicts Russia as a country that is "rising from its knees" but threatened by Western encirclement and justified in dominating the countries in its own "backyard".

Bagramyan, however, argued to STAVKA that its planning was too audacious in the hopes of repeating a successful encirclement like that in Uranus.

After the first stage of the withdrawal beyond the Orne, the manoeuvre collapsed for a lack of fuel, Allied air attacks and the constant pressure of the Allied armies and culminated in the encirclement of many German forces in the Falaise pocket.