Sentence examples for enemy loss from inspiring English sources

Because without the cold-war psychological framework, the Kursk disaster was not seen as an enemy loss.

Independent verification of battle casualties is not possible, and analysts say both sides tend to exaggerate enemy losses.

Enemy losses were much higher, but that only made the war seem more horrific and out of control.

Most neutral observers consider this an exaggeration: the army's estimation of enemy losses tends to be based more on hope than corpses.

In some especially revolting passages, we find Gen. Sir Douglas Haig and his arrogant subordinate Gen. Sir Henry Rawlinson actually complaining when British casualties were too low, and exulting — presumably because enemy losses were deemed comparable — when they moved into the tens of thousands.

By June 1942 he had proudly announced the decisive victory at the Battle of Midway and the Coral Sea, where enemy losses were 10 times greater than those of the United States at Pearl Harbor.

Over claiming of enemy losses was rife on both sides during the battle.

At one moment you can bring to mind a noisy, triumphalist Athenian crowd cheering in the theatre as their enemies' loss is so lovingly described.

Among many hypotheses, newly established host populations may benefit from a parasite loss ("enemy release" hypothesis) through impoverishment of their original parasite communities or reduced infection levels.

He describes Nixon's controversial decision to send American troops into Cambodia as "courageous," arguing that "the enemy's loss of Cambodia as a logistics base" helped end "the war in the southern (and most populous) part of South Vietnam".

It can't be about their victory (how can they, the world's most disenfranchised group, win?) but it can be about their enemy's loss.