Sentence examples for offensive capacity from inspiring English sources

"offensive capacity" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe the ability or potential of someone or something to launch an attack or act aggressively. Example: The country has been building up its military and expanding its offensive capacity in preparation for a potential conflict.

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A reduced offensive capacity is not the end of Britain.

Chaney believes that, when allowed to run freely, the Knicks' offensive capacity is boundless.

Evidence suggested the potential to grow smallpox in massive quantities, and pointed to a continuation of an offensive capacity under Boris Yeltsin's supposedly more friendly, post-Soviet regime.

"According to what he told FBI agents," Motz wrote in a court memo, "it appears to me that defendant had not formed an intention to fight for al-Shabaab in any offensive capacity when he travelled to Somalia.

The Devils also added Mike Cammalleri and Martin Havlat over the summer to bolster their offensive capacity, and they locked in goaltender Cory Schneider with a seven-year extension worth $42m.

We should go right on rejecting it until it attains the offensive capacity President Bush is so anxious to deny, a capacity that will be far more difficult to outwit than a static defensive system.

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A revised military doctrine signed by Mr Putin in December identified "reinforcement of NATO's offensive capacities directly on Russia's borders, and measures taken to deploy a global anti-missile defence system" in central Europe as the greatest threats Russia faces.In itself, that may not be cause for alarm in the West.

The three-day war games, in Kurdistan province, started a day after Iran test-fired its first solid-liquid fuel missile, raising concerns in Israel and the United States that Tehran is developing a long-range offensive missile capacity.

They were also aware of Kennedy's reaction when Khrushchev offered to sharply reduce offensive military capacity and proceeded to do so unilaterally when Kennedy failed to respond: namely, Kennedy undertook a huge armaments program.

The arrangement is meant to meet an American arms export pledge not to introduce new offensive military capacities into Asia.

Second, the Obama administration is seriously weakening both our strategic offensive and defensive capacity.

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