First it took advantage of a two-week postponement of the long-awaited talks to launch a bloody offensive across much of the country.
Britain agreed to help the government's forces with arms and ammunition.Continuing its invasion of Eritrea, Ethiopia launched a big offensive across a central front at Zalambessa.
Paddy Ashdown, the former Lib Dem leader and ex-marine, duly appeared and launched a charm offensive across Eastleigh town centre.
But the latest surge in dissident activity appears to be aimed at showing that diverse republican groups can co-ordinate their offensive across the whole of Northern Ireland.
After the Chinese offensive across the Yalu in 1950, he overcame his distaste for Acheson's more militant policy to urge him to refuse any attempt at diplomacy with the Communist world and instead adopt a Churchillian posture of defiance.
One tragic consequence of this month's Israeli military offensive across the West Bank has been the heavy blow it inflicted on a Palestinian economy and civil society that had begun to show signs of life.
As tension rises on the streets of Athens, Mr. Samaras and his energetic finance minister, Yannis Stournaras, have been conducting a charm offensive across Europe to persuade power brokers like the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, the French president, François Hollande, and a phalanx of influential bureaucrats in Brussels that Greece means to stick to its pledges.
In addition, speedy economic growth in the eastern states, especially in the mining industry, has given the rebels new targets for raising funds by extorting cash.Late last year the government sent in thousands of federal police in an offensive across the worst-affected states: Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal.
Given its widely publicized "Topless Jihad," FEMEN is at least consistently offensive across the religious spectrum.
After halting the Japanese advance, Allied forces went on the offensive across the SWPA from mid-1943.
Lee's intent was to synchronize his offensive across the battlefield, keeping Meade from concentrating his numerically superior force, but the assaults were poorly coordinated and Maj.
