Sentence examples for face the assault from inspiring English sources

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The tanks followed the road leading to the defensive line and then attempted to out-flank the line by advancing from the right-hand side, using several hills as cover; the artillery pieces were able to turn and face the assault, however, and one Valentine and one Tetrarch were hit and destroyed.

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"I'm looking forward to going back to France very soon," Strauss-Kahn said outside the $50,000-a-month Tribeca townhouse he rented while facing the assault charges.

Nick Kay, a Briton recently appointed as the UN's special envoy to Somalia, gamely insisted there would be no retreat in the face of the assault.

Iraqi officials told the Guardian that two divisions of Iraqi soldiers – roughly 30,000 men – simply turned and ran in the face of the assault by an insurgent force of just 800 fighters.

Thanks to disgruntled Sunnis in Iraq willing to ally with IS (after being excluded by the government in Baghdad) and a brittle Iraqi security force that fled in the face of the assault, IS, by now composed of thousands of men, including many foreign fighters, managed to grab swathes of territory in Iraq.So how is IS faring today?

Seventh Generation's new chief Maniscalco puts a bold face on the assault: "We like the competition because it's creating more marketplace energy".

In the face of the assault by the 14th Panzer Division, the 4th Army quickly ceased to exist as an operational formation.

Hunter tried to make the case this week that union workers are union workers, and that they face the same assault from management whether they are well-paid athletes or not.

The castle garrison was thrown into complete disarray as men were pulled from the parapets to face the nonexistent assault, while others threw down their weapons and surrendered.

It seems the clock around Flavor Flav's neck is ticking, as he'll soon have to face the felony assault with a weapon and child endangerment charges resting on his shoulders.

Of these formations, 2nd Parachute Corps and 86th Corps had a shared boundary that ran through the proposed landing zones for the Allied airborne divisions, meaning that the leading formation of each corps — these being 7th Parachute Division and 84th Infantry Division — would face the airborne assault.

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