Sentence examples for make a counterattack from inspiring English sources

It is entirely possible, however, that the administration in its zeal will commit enough legal mistakes to make a counterattack in the courts not only a plausible strategy but a successful one.

During the Battle of Crete his failure to pressure James Hargest, one of his brigade commanders, to make a counterattack to support the defenders of Maleme airfield resulted in its eventual loss to the Germans.

The king's council made a counterattack, with the Howeitat tribal confederation publishing several communiqués in support of Abdullah.

Leslie's diversion distracted the Arab defenders, but enough remained in the southern defences to make a significant counterattack on Smith's beachhead.

Russian forces under Start III could make an annihilating counterattack even under conditions of a surprise disarming first strike by the U.S.A. in combination with a limited U.S. N.M.D. system...

In the document that American negotiators presented to the Russians regarding amendments to the Antiballistic Missile Treaty (front page, April 28), the United States seeks to reassure Russia that Moscow could make "an annihilating counterattack," even after a surprise American first strike, as long as it "keeps its strategic arsenal on constant alert".

Wellington then ordered the Brunswick hussars to make an unsupported counterattack on the French light cavalry brigade, but they were driven off by heavy fire.

The Supreme United Nations military commander in the area, General Douglas MacArthur, decided to have his American and South Korean troops to dig in around Pusan and hold on until he could assemble a powerful force (the American 10th Corps) to make an amphibious counterattack at Inchon on the northwestern coast of South Korea, near Seoul, later on in 1950.

Not knowing what they're talking about, and trying to turn the messaging around to make it a counterattack". .

As Gwynn was an old friend of the Sandby brothers, Paul made a ferocious counterattack in the form of eight plates later dubbed "The Analysis of Deformity".

After conceding considerable ground the Ottoman soldiers made a vigorous counterattack but were finally defeated.