Sentence examples for offensives from the from inspiring English sources

Franciscans and others hoped that Columbus's westward project would help to finance a Crusade to the Holy Land that might even be reinforced by, or coordinated with, offensives from the legendary ruler Prester John, who was thought to survive with his descendants in the lands to the east of the infidel.

South Korea has long feared a "water offensive" from the North.

Trump, as is his wont, was on the offensive from the start.

This year, the traditionalists, evidently determined to avoid a second ambush, were on the offensive from the beginning of the synod.

Fury should have tried a disarming charm offensive from the start and avoided the weary sexual slurs.

The liberal or progressive community was slow to counter the remarkable effectiveness of this intellectual offensive from the right.

His resignation opened the door for an offensive from the majority to replace officials of the commission with loyalists.

Jones had three inches and several pounds on Scottland, and went on the offensive from the start.

That said, the government did recently strike a political agreement with a powerful moderate Islamist militia, which may join the offensive from the inland regions of the country.

In mid-May 1916 Cadorna's program was interrupted by an Austrian offensive from the Trentino into the Asiago region of western Venetia.

Rex Ryan has extended his general approach — open, blunt, direct and in some instances offensive — from the spoken word to the written one.