Sentence examples for hilltop position from inspiring English sources

Because of its hilltop position, up by the university, the Bergen Natural History Museum overlooks much of the old town.

BANGKOK — Government troops in Myanmar captured a strategic hilltop position outside the headquarters of ethnic Kachin rebels on Saturday, a photographer and another observer in the area reported.

Khon Ja, a Kachin humanitarian worker in the area, said that it was possible rebel forces would retake the hilltop position and described the fighting as "cat and mouse".

After two weeks of covering the tower with a machine gun from a hilltop position nearby, the French sent 20 soldiers on foot into a narrow gorge through which the Communist-controlled elevated city rail line runs.

A spokesman for the government, Ye Htut, said that he was not aware if the hilltop position, Hkayabum, had been taken but that government troops were "very close to the post and heavy fighting is ongoing".

Government troops have appeared to take at least one hilltop position previously held by the rebels, putting them one step closer to Laiza, which appeared to be the goal of their intensified campaign.

Security forces have occupied hilltop positions but avoided shelling the seminary directly, they said.

American B-52's and fighter-bombers hit Taliban hilltop positions, which have proved remarkably resilient.

Croatian forces are pressing their offensive, firing cannons from hilltop positions three miles southeast of Dubrovnik while squads of commandos work their way along the rugged coast to force the Serbs back into Montenegro.

Government forces may have hilltop positions and superior firepower, with multiple rocket systems and helicopter gunships newly acquired from Ukraine, but they are not experienced at counterinsurgency operations and would probably resort to sledgehammer tactics.

People in Shakkardarra said that militants, mostly from a banned outfit called the Jaish-i-Muhammad, or Army of Muhammad, who had set up checkpoints on the main road and occupied hilltop positions, had seized the four men during a road check.