Sentence examples for force of the enemy from inspiring English sources

The term we used was aikido, referring to the Japanese martial art that turns the force of the enemy back on itself.

It declared that any person of color who entered the state "with any armed force of the enemy" would thereby "have forfeited his freedom, if he be free," and would labor in the penitentiary until one year after any peace treaty.

Let your teammates enter first, so you don't get hit with the brute force of the enemy's gunfire.

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.

Commanders should "endeavor with every art to divide the forces of the enemy," advised Renaissance philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli in The Art of War.

Despite General Lee's order to avoid a general engagement until his entire army was concentrated, Hill decided to mount a significant reconnaissance in force the following morning to determine the size and strength of the enemy force in his front.

He overstretched his lines of supply and then divided his forces in the face of the enemy.Houston seized his chance.

He consistently overestimated the strength of the enemy forces (sometimes by multiples of two or three) and used these faulty estimates as a reason for inaction.Nonetheless, Mr McPherson believes that Lincoln was right in saying that no man could lick troops into shape half as well as McClellan.

The council decided that their force was "inferiour to the strength of the enemy", and that they would "quit it [Port Royal] wholly and go about [their] other business".

This was accomplished between Jan . 18and Feb. 8, 1817, partly by a double bluff, which caused the Spanish commander to divide his forces in order to guard all possible routes, and more especially by careful generalship that ensured the maximum concentration of force at the enemy's weakest point, backed by adequate supplies.

Hence, the really artistic touch consisted of so arranging things as to fall with one's whole force upon one of the enemy's flanks; witness the great victories that Frederick the Great, employing his so-called oblique order, achieved at Rossbach and Leuthen in 1757.