Sentence examples for failed offensive from inspiring English sources

Islamists have killed at least 22 soldiers in a surprise attack using speedboats during a failed offensive to seize some of Libya's main oil terminals, officials said.

The failed offensive was investigated by the HV in 1991 and researched later by retired HV Brigadier Vlado Hodalj.

There was a recent outbreak of braid and pomp at the Pentagon, as ambassadors and military leaders from Australia and New Zealand joined Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the landings of Australian and New Zealand troops at Gallipoli, the site of a spectacularly failed offensive during the First World War.

In a single episode of that time's clashes, Azerbaijan lost about fifteen hundred of its soldiers after the failed offensive in Kelbajar.

Only a few months after the failed offensive against the capital, major dissensions in the FROLINAT shattered all vestiges of unity and badly weakened Libyan power in Chad.

Somewhere around the time of the failed offensive against Moscow in December 1941, Hitler resolved that the Jews of Europe were to be exterminated immediately.

This has done less damage to civilian life and property than two previous, failed offensives in Malakand.

Abu Yasser, like Abu Islam, was captured in the failed Kirkuk offensive.

The paper chose to ignore the affair on its opinion page, which led on France's relations with China and Taiwan and Dick Cheney's failed 'charm offensive' to Europe.

Mr Sorley's argument is that to the extent that the Vietnam War was a "people's war" in the South, the Communist insurgency was defeated after the failed Tet offensive through intelligent counterinsurgency techniques; the South ultimately lost not to a people's war, but to a regular invasion by North Vietnamese main forces.

The failed Ardennes Offensive (16 December 1944 25 January 194545) was the last major German campaign of the war.