Sentence examples for encirclement to from inspiring English sources

In the past decade — as NATO has added Albania and Croatia, and has discussed admitting more Eastern European countries, including Georgia and Ukraine — Putin has repeatedly used the fear of encirclement to whip up nationalist passions inside Russia.

The Belgians had correctly predicted the Germans would attempt a Kesselschlacht (literally "Cauldron battle", meaning encirclement), to destroy its enemies.

He would later earn the Polish Cross of Valor for helping lead over 100 of his men out of a German encirclement to safety without a single casualty.

As they broke out of the encirclement to the north, the rest of the reconnaissance battalion drove south from Bijeljina and stopped the Partisan advance at heavy cost.

As night fell, the forts ceased firing, and their garrisons abandoned them, trying to cut through the rather loose Greek encirclement to Ioannina.

But to the Germans the Triple Entente looked suspiciously like encirclement designed to frustrate their rightful claims to world power and prestige.

Given the unexpected size of German forces closed off in Stalingrad, on 23 November Stavka (Soviet Armed Forces High Command) decided to strengthen the outer encirclement preparing to destroy Axis forces in and around the city.

Again and again, his sense of aggrieved encirclement expands to encompass others, and he manages, with neither vanity nor condescension, to blend his woundedness with theirs: the empire of one is colonized by his characters.

Encirclement appeared to be inhibited after only 30 min, when many cells were still partly surrounded.

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

Later, a Ukrainian unit from outside the encirclement drove in to try to retrieve the wounded, he said.