Sentence examples for engaging the main from inspiring English sources

The operation was the first move in a newly devised long-term war strategy in which large American forces would aim primarily at engaging the main forces of the enemy and destroying their jungle bases one by one, while ARVN troops would aim primarily at providing security for the villages thus freed from Front control.

These included engaging the main service stakeholders in the planning and ongoing implementation of the project through the Governance Group, distributing summary reports to participants, presentation of a mid-project report at various forums and meetings in the region, and maintaining a project blog.

After capturing the surprised advance units of the Italian column, the British engaged the main Italian force on February 6.

At sea a detachment of 200 Persian ships attempted to surprise the Greek fleet, but the Greeks, forewarned, engaged the main Persian navy.

The British have the tricky problem of how to engage the main Shia players - it's the one big job they have to do before pulling out of Basra.

On August 13 , 1704 he engaged the main enemy force at Blenheim; a quarter (about 12,000) of his troops were killed or wounded, but the enemy casualties exceeded three times that number.

The Royal Air Force engaged the main strength of the German Air Force, and inflicted upon them losses of at least four to one; and the Navy, using nearly 1,000 ships of all kinds, carried over 335,000 men, French and British, out of the jaws of death and shame, to their native land and to the tasks which lie immediately ahead.

Artabanes did not engage the main body of Leutharis' army however, since it far outnumbered his own force.

A concentrated force of RAF fighters, should it be able to engage the main formations, might be able to inflict serious damage.

The richer lands of Mexico engaged the main attention of the Conquistadors for some years, then in 1526 Francisco de Montejo (a veteran of the Grijalva and Cortés expeditions) successfully petitioned the King of Spain for the right to conquer Yucatán.

At the same time an offensive would be staged against the Grebbe Line in the east by the 207th and 227th Infantry Divisions, united to form X. Armeekorps, to engage the main bulk of the Dutch Field Army.