Sentence examples for had been flanked from inspiring English sources

True to the slave's word, the trail came out near the Continental barracks, which had been left unguarded; the Continentals were unaware they had been flanked.

The Taliban's ideological strategy had been flanked by the mounting American "surge," the same surge that had brought Bergdahl to Afghanistan and was making the US military and intelligence community nervous.

Previously, the cDNAs had been flanked by artificial introns at the 5' and 3' end (from pNN265 [ 62]).

Selected integration sites that had been flanked with heterologous recombinase target sites (FRTs) were targeted by Flp recombinase mediated cassette exchange (RMCE).

The reaction was understandable: the car he had been flanking since the off-ramp, a low-slung beast with a ferocious growl, was an enigma.

It has been flanked and then overrun, first by Fox News from the right and then by MSNBC on the left.

The primary series has been flanked by other installments based on major football tournaments, such as the FIFA World Cup and UEFA Champions League, as well as a series of other football titles.

Almost whatever I have read about climate change and the UN talks in Copenhagen in recent weeks, it has been flanked by the familiar Shell logo somewhere in the background.

On the right, they have been flanked by xenophobic, anti-free-traders; on the left, they have come up against the promise of government intervention to attend to the needs of those who have not made the transition to a global, high-tech economy.

The new Aaron Sorkin HBO series "The Newsroom" reads like a meditation on the particular circumstances of CNN, which finds that it "has been flanked and then overrun, first by Fox News from the right and then by MSNBC on the left," David Carr writes.

Much of the year has been flanked with uncertainty.