Sentence examples for encirclement on from inspiring English sources

A ring is complete or true when there is encirclement on all sides, while it is incomplete or partial when at least one side is not involved.

It seems the U.S. is tightening its encirclement on China".

Israel said the army would maintain "a full encirclement on all of the Palestinian cities in the West Bank," while the Gaza Strip has been cut into four sections, with Palestinians unable to move from one to another.

The trapped Turks broke out of the Chinese encirclement on the morning of November 29 and the brigade was attached to the US 2nd Infantry Division.

This operation was undertaken by the Polish 1st Armoured Division and the Canadian 1st Army against the Wehrmacht′s Army Group B, and it was a part of the largest encirclement on the German Western Front during the Second World War.

The level of the river had fallen and as the encirclement on land had not been completed, even "if the Brazilian ships did manage to get past the batteries they could well become stranded, with little or no fuel and possibly no supporting Allied troops on the banks".

Russian television showed separatist forces fighting to preserve their reported encirclement of Debaltseve on Thursday, and quoted separatist leaders saying artillery had fired shells into the town containing leaflets calling on Ukrainian forces to surrender.

United States troops began a gradual encirclement of Baghdad on Friday, apparently as part of a strategy to isolate the capital, and American tanks were reported moving into the city this morning.

(But shouldn't they have been e-mailing me links all this time?) The parodies use a scene in "Downfall," the 2004 movie about the last days of the Third Reich, in which Hitler, in his bunker, gets a report on the imminent encirclement of Berlin, and loses his temper.

An Iraqi military spokesman said troops were trying to tighten the encirclement of Fallujah by advancing on the western front, near the village of Khalidiya.

In the aftermath of the encirclement of the 6th Army on 23 November the Geschwaderstab was moved to Morozovskaya-West, outside the Stalingrad pocket.