Sentence examples for offensive has begun. from inspiring English sources

When I leave, someone tells me the Taliban spring offensive has begun, American troops are pouring in, and President Karzai is beginning his political campaign.

Guerrilla incursions picked up strongly in the first months of 1976, leading Smith to declare on the evening of 6 February 1976 that "a new terrorist offensive has begun and, to defeat it, Rhodesians will have to face heavier military commitments".

He said the groups had been planning for the offensive had begun two years ago.

The minute they assassinated the Hamas military chief we knew an offensive had begun.

But broader suggestions that a long-awaited ground offensive had begun against the rebels could not be independently confirmed.

Russia says it sent combat troops into the enclave to protect civilians and peacekeepers after Georgia's offensive had begun.

Planning for the offensive had begun two years earlier, when the head of An's intelligence network, a colonel known by his nom de guerre, Tu Cang, moved from the jungle into Saigon.

7.51am BST As my colleague Jason Deans reports, the BBC's 8am news bulletin on 6 June 1944 carried no confirmation of the D-day landings that had begun an hour-and-half earlier – the official nod came later in the morning – but did warn that "a new phase in the Allied air offensive" had begun.

The attack on Marinka was the first large-scale assault on a Ukrainian-held town since February, and led many to believe a feared DNR summer offensive had begun.

The progressive counter-offensive has begun.

Planning for the counter-offensive had begun in the spring of 2014.