Sentence examples for his encirclement from inspiring English sources

The Iraqi prime minister, they say, may see Mr. Assad's possible fall from power as a potential setback that might lead to his encirclement by Sunni Arab states and embolden his Sunni and Kurdish rivals at home.

His attempted encirclement was thwarted when Seleucus deployed his elephants as a living wall.

I can't deny that, when I lived in Jerusalem during the 1973 war, I, like so many, felt transcendent gratitude to Sharon for his daring encirclement of Egypt's Third Army.

The reassignment of the 7th Division gave Đính and his III Corps complete encirclement of Saigon, and would prevent Cao from storming the capital to save Diệm as he had done during the coup attempt in 1960.

Scholar Ma Rong wrote two well-known fu on ancient board games: his "Fu on Chaupar" (Chūpú fù ), which the Chinese believed to actually have been invented by Laozi after he departed west out of China, and his "Fu on Encirclement Chess" (Wěiqí fù ), one of the earliest known descriptions of the game Go.

Again and again, his sense of aggrieved encirclement expands to encompass others, and he manages, with neither vanity nor condescension, to blend his woundedness with theirs: the empire of one is colonized by his characters.

Citing Stalin's belief that permanent peaceful coexistence with the west was impossible because of its hostile capitalist encirclement of his country, Kennan stressed Stalin's determination to do everything to advance Russian might and to reduce the collective and individual strengths of capitalist countries.

"The story of David's reign is that of the encirclement of his principal conquest, Israel," Halpern concludes.

At the Battle of Cynossema, he commanded one wing of the fleet and prevented Athenian defeat by extending his flank to prevent encirclement; the battle ended in Athenian victory.

(But shouldn't they have been e-mailing me links all this time?) The parodies use a scene in "Downfall," the 2004 movie about the last days of the Third Reich, in which Hitler, in his bunker, gets a report on the imminent encirclement of Berlin, and loses his temper.

Meanwhile, the garrison under the leadership of Peter Perlati made several successful sorties against the Ottomans, in order to ease the encirclement and strengthen his soldiers' morale.