Sentence examples for ground for the attack from inspiring English sources

While the artillery prepared the ground for the attack, behind the Australian lines the assault formations moved up towards The Pimple.

Sir Menzies Campbell - a former Lib Dem leader and prominent opponent of the 2003 Iraq invasion - said he was "satisfied there are perfectly sound legal grounds" for the attack.

The bombing run was also intended to dislodge insurgents from their hiding places, said Maj. Gen. Uthman Al-Ghanimi, commander of the Eighth Division of the Iraqi Army, which provided the bulk of the ground forces for the attack.

The Taliban loyal to the Mehsud tribe, whose enclave inside South Waziristan is the army's chief target, were asked not to go to Afghanistan this summer to fight American and NATO troops, but rather to stay home and prepare the ground for the anticipated attack, the organizer said.

It was Afghanistan, not Iraq, that was the spawning ground for the Sept. 11 attacks.

The negotiations have been difficult, officials said, because of repeated public statements by the Malaysian government insisting that the predominantly Muslim nation could not have been a staging ground for the Sept. 11 attacks.

Richardson joins this literature using the standards of biological explanation as the ground for his attack.

"The only rationale for Zinni's return at this time is the U.S. need to calm the Palestinian arena by way of preparing the ground for an attack on Iraq," he wrote.

The pope sees Italy as uniquely emblematic of Roman Catholicism and thus ideal ground for an attack against the creeping secularisation of Europe.

Yet another American official said Monday that the military inquiry would examine whether the strike on the Pakistani outpost was a case of mistaken identity, and if an American ground commander had called for the attack because he thought the Pakistani forces were militants.

At Arras the Allied objectives were to draw German troops away from the ground chosen for the French attack and to take the German-held high ground that dominated the plain of Douai.