Sentence examples for offensive up from inspiring English sources

The South wanted its ship, renamed the CSS Virginia, to get down the Elizabeth River into the Chesapeake as soon as possible, to sink the Yankee squadron, and to disrupt Gen. George McClellan's planned offensive up the Virginia peninsula.

Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina have particular reason to step into the arena with an anti-Trump offensive up their sleeves.

"What we're really seeing is the Taliban spring offensive gearing up," the official said.

Nothing particularly offensive turns up, but nothing particularly significant does either.

"Karen had a whole fall offensive lined up -- all this character and values stuff," one Bush adviser said, referring to Karen P. Hughes, Mr. Bush's counselor.

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And it seems that division about what is offensive kept up on Halloween weekend, and played out on social media apps like Yeti.

I'm pretty sure if you stuck Tom Brady in the middle of our offensive line-up, his QB rating would start plummeting like the Dow Jones in late 2008.

On Friday, IS lost control of the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq in the face of a Kurdish offensive backed-up by US airpower.

In all cases, Israeli officials said they were targeting Hamas operatives and their infrastructure, though all offensives ended up with high numbers of civilian casualties.