Sentence examples for his attrition from inspiring English sources

Hawthorne played Haig as warped and sad, as well as a military disaster with his attrition tactics that left hundreds of thousands of soldiers dead in the trenches.

Murray would not budge from his disciplined attrition, waiting for his moment rather than forcing it – and it came on the half-hour, the Scot unfurling an unreachable backhand for 4-2.

Given the circumstances of his defensive attrition, Riley could forgive Majerle's 1-for-6 shooting Friday night.

For his offensive in the West, however, Falkenhayn clung always to his method of attrition.

Mr Straw has sided with the chancellor in his war of attrition with Mr Blair over the euro.

The lost hockey season did not force him to lay off anyone, Mr. Rizzo said, but he reduced his staff through attrition.

6. Boris Johnson has suspended hostilities in his war of attrition against Cameron – and will probably return to the Commons in 2015.

After Hannibal's victory over the Romans at Lake Trasimene (217), Fabius was elected dictator; he then initiated his strategy of attrition against the invaders.

President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, the champion of pan-Arabism who had built his reputation on standing up to "Western imperialism," imported more than 10,000 Soviet troops into Egypt when his "War of Attrition" against Israel in the late 1960s went sour.

His detractors say he values style over substance, seeks to take the museum in a much more flashy direction to attract a hip downtown crowd, and allowed a valued brain trust to dissipate through his layoffs and attrition without taking the time to analyze its true value.

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, (born June 19 , 1861 Edinburgh died Jan . 29 , 1928London) British field marshal, commander in chief of the British forces in France during most of World War I. His strategy of attrition (tautly summarized as "kill more Germans") resulted in enormous numbers of British casualties but little immediate gain in 1916 17 and made him a subject of controversy.