Sentence examples for fortified position from inspiring English sources
On Sunday night a 200-strong British force, led by Royal Marines, launched an operation to flush the Taliban out of the heavily fortified position.
If critics wish to disagree with the Rebbe's strategically and statistically fortified position on territorial concessions, they would have to resort to more than mudslinging and innuendo.
On the whole, it was substantially easier to defend a fortified position than to attack one, and even a small force could achieve a disproportionate military advantage by occupying a defensible place.
While the enemy lingered, Washington succeeded under cover of a dense fog in ferrying the remaining force across the East River to Manhattan, where he took up a fortified position.
At the present time the earthworks are so slight that some doubt has been expressed as to the existence of any p28 fortified position here; but Messrs. Brayley and Britton, in describing it in the year 1803, say:— "It is situated on a high, barren hill, and commands an extensive view over the Wolds; its form is circular, but the bank has been partly destroyed by the effects of cultivation.
Weaving through mud and freshly-turned earth, the labyrinth of trenches provides scant shelter between each fortified position.
The latter have fortified positions, greatly outnumber the former, and offer promises of victory to potential defectors.
For breaching fortified positions, military engineers of the classical age designed assault towers that remain a wonder to modern engineers.
Helicopter gunships also rocketed Taliban positions in the north of Buner, where the militants had apparently fortified positions in areas adjoining their stronghold in the Swat Valley.
The Australian team crept into the zone between the two tribes' fortified positions without being detected, coalition officials in Bagram said.
About 100 miles east, the poorly trained troops of Croatia's army begin a frontal assault against heavily fortified positions south of Zagreb.
