Sentence examples for enemy offensive from inspiring English sources

At the start of an enemy offensive, the sergeant was killed after he had gone around distributing ammunition to Mr. Quevedo and his comrades.

The order, dated July 10 , 1995 ordered four police units, including the "Serbian MUP," to form "an independent" detachment and move from their base near Sarajevo to Srebrenica "to crush the enemy offensive".

Johnson & Gen. Westmoreland had seen reports warning of the possibility of a large enemy offensive in early 1968, but neither they nor anyone else in the American intelligence community predicted or foresaw anything approaching the extraordinary size & scope of the Tet offensive.

Officials pointed out that if a new enemy offensive required additional expenditure on arms, this could be financed by spending funds earlier in the fiscal year than planned—hop ing to make this up later or by transferring funds from non Vietnam accounts or by deplet ing the stockpiles of ordnance temporarily.

The anticipated enemy offensive, Operation Nordwind, began on the night of New Year's Eve.

Together they comprised one element of the Axis effort known as the Third Enemy Offensive.

Other attacks were designed as a means to negate enemy offensives, such as the Galactic Tornado, which destroys enemy projectiles while drawing the opponent closer to Rufus for a final strike.

The Afrika Korps war diary noted that "In the past, such reports had always been issued prior to the important enemy offensives to capture Sidi Barrani, Bardi, Tobruk, and the Gebel".

That grass, a "really bad cousin" of Kentucky bluegrass, is his stated enemy, "an offensive little bugger".

WHEN the Germans launched, five months ago, that terrific onslaught on Verdun, which has been sustained by the French with such incomparable heroism, the enemy's offensive was welcomed by our Press, as certain to cost him sacrifices in men greater than his gain in territory.

Should a second adversary try to challenge the United States at the same time, American forces must be prepared to halt that enemy's offensive, but not necessarily fight to a conclusive victory, as well as carry out other duties, including homeland defense and peacekeeping.