Sentence examples for forces off from inspiring English sources

Shattuara II of Hanigalbat, however, put him into a difficult situation, cutting his forces off from their water supplies.

Say you've just sent your forces off to another location only to spot a surprise attack forming behind you.

The review should commit to taking as many of those forces off hair-trigger alert as possible — and encourage Russia to do the same.

You can upgrade your tower defences but you're limited to where you can place them, you can send your forces off to battle – but how they fight is up to them.

Talking calmly, Sumner insisted that such a charge could only mean a repetition of his disastrous assaults on "Burnside's Bridge" at Antietam, where a small band of Confederates held his forces off for hours, and which he finally took at a high cost.

This second group of forces appears to be intended to protect the city of Basra, in southeastern Iraq near the Kuwaiti border, and to guard against an American effort to cut the mass of Iraqi forces off from their lines of supply further north.

Our enemies are trying to imitate the Viet Minh by attempting to cut our forces off from their supplies.

Zúñiga drove the rebel forces off, and then launched a counterattack of his own between Lillo and El Romeral, inflicting a crushing defeat on Acuña.

But citing a desire to keep enemy forces off-balance, the administration has refused to disclose some commonly released details about the plan, including exactly how many additional troops will deploy.

Attempts to enliven it with programming must contend with the awkward distribution of seats among the grid of trees in planter boxes -- just as, in the main plaza, the central fountain forces off-kilter, jerry-built stages for Midsummer Night Swing and Lincoln Center Out of Doors.

Although all the American air strikes had thus far caused negligible damage, they kept the Japanese carrier forces off-balance as Nagumo endeavored to prepare a response to news, received at 08 20, of the sighting of American carrier forces to his northeast.