Sentence examples for in a sharp engagement from inspiring English sources

In a sharp engagement the hired ships lost four wounded but successfully held back the gunboats during the battle.

In a sharp engagement the British ships inflicted severe damage to Sémillante before being driven off by a Spanish fort overlooking the strait.

Unfortunately after a sharp engagement in the Knightsbridge Box, the Battalion was ordered to surrender when the Garrison in Tobruk capitulated.

Overt opposition to his rule surfaced in December 1960, when a dissident wing of the army secured control of Addis Ababa and was dislodged only after a sharp engagement with loyalist elements.

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The "Marauders" left Ledo, in Assam (February 1944), and marched several hundred miles through mountainous Burmese jungles to outflank the enemy, harass his lines of communication, and defeat him in a series of sharp engagements.

In the short and sharp engagement, ZG 26 lost five Bf 110s and another damaged to No. 56 Squadron.

The tonal change in Mrs. Clinton's campaigning away from sharp engagement with Mr. Obama could reflect cold political calculation: with elements of the party now coalescing around him, her own political legacy may be at stake in the few weeks remaining before primary voting comes to a close on June 3.

To underline the point, as Dicko's car passed a police checkpoint on the way to his next engagement, two officers raised their hands in a sharp salute – a remarkable gesture in an officially secular state.

The sites on the activation loop (Tyr and Tyr) were not phosphorylated in the absence of collagen and showed delayed phosphorylation dynamics when stimulated, culminating in a sharp increase in phosphorylation levels from 8to2424 h after collagen engagement.

In a sharp break with Pres.