Sentence examples for holding force from inspiring English sources

He left four unmotorized Italian divisions as a holding force opposite the Gazala line.

When those forces struck back, late in the morning on Wednesday, they routed the rebels' holding force.

At Franklin, Hood was checked for a day with severe casualties by a Federal holding force under John M. Schofield.

"This fact makes it easier for them to act as an attacking and holding force, since they know the area and can potentially get the support of the locals.

Other factors played large roles, including the small numerical size of the rebels' holding force, but the small size of that force made their ordnance selection all the more important.

The punch radius, die radius and blank holding force are considered as design parameters.

A novel device for obtaining pulling and holding forces for draw bead tooling on inclined binder surfaces has been developed.

According to Koelsch and Ziehmann ([2004]), landfill operators should follow two basic rules: to protect holding forces, and to reduce driving forces.

Relative differences in holding forces of the AS remained stable independent of being tested in different tissues or ballistic gelatine.

However if the HRA held force in the devolved UK governments, but not at Westminster, that would be  a marked departure.

But to do this, he said officers needed access to much better technology, ideally a smartphone-like device so each individual could hold "force intelligence in his hand".