Sentence examples for fighting the attack from inspiring English sources

After about six hours of heavy fighting the attack was stopped about a mile (1.6 km) short of their objective.

The bridge was reached and the remaining fifty German defenders in the building in front of it were on the point of surrender when after hours of fighting the attack was abandoned because of heavy flanking fire from the other side of the river.

Mr Karadaghi says that Kurdish commanders have been struck by how, when one Isis battle group is wiped out in the fighting, the attack will be immediately renewed with the same ferocity by another Isis detachment.

During three days of intense fighting the attacks were repelled by US and South Vietnamese forces, and although another attack was launched by the Viet Cong several days later, the offensive was again defeated with significant losses on both sides, causing extensive damage to Saigon and many civilian casualties.

Defending strongly, the Marines used flamethrowers, machine-guns and mortars, supported by M46 Patton tanks and artillery fire and following several hours of fighting the Chinese attack was finally broken up by indirect fire.

Things have moved on since the days of pro-tuition-fee Blairites: all parties seem to agree that they want to get on with fighting the government's attacks on education, but agreeing how to go about that together is out of reach, for now.

When the North Korean People's Army 6th Division attacked the town, the US troops fought to repel their advance in a weeklong battle in which the 24th Infantry performed poorly, and other US reinforcements were brought in to assist in fighting off the attack.

During the fighting, the attacking force left eight airborne troops dead and thirty wounded.

Rather, the United States is fighting the terrorism that has attacked the freedom of the American people.

Chavismo is clearly fighting the last war and attacking a cardboard cutout version of a challenger that the opposition roundly rejected last February when it selected Capriles as its presidential candidate by a crushing majority in nationwide primaries.

The Partisan main force avoided fighting the Black Legion, instead attacking the Chetniks from the rear while they were engaged against Francetić's troops.