Sentence examples for offensives in which from inspiring English sources

They contend that government troops assisted fighters from the rival Lou Nuer ethnic group when they swept through Murle areas in July, helping turn cattle raids into large offensives in which more than 300 people were killed.

The two big offensives in which Model participated, Zitadelle and the Ardennes offensive, were in their final forms executed against his repeated warnings.

Again, there has been no official word about this offensive in which more than 100 GIA men are said to have died.

Isis seized Bartella two years ago, during a rapid military offensive in which the group occupied a series of mixed villages east of Mosul in the Nineveh plains.

According to legend, the boys rallied their village in 1997 to avenge a government offensive in which -- as in many similar reported incidents -- the soldiers raped women, killed men in front of their families and set fire to thatched homes.

The county executive, Edward P. Mangano, sued and mounted a public relations offensive in which he accused the control board of playing politics and of secretly wanting to raise property tax rates.

The Texas billionaire spent much of the last two years, and $62 million of his fortune, on an advertising and public relations offensive in which he tried to persuade Americans to embrace his Pickens plan.

They include accounts of the battle of Loos in September 1915, a notoriously unsuccessful and bloody offensive in which the British army used poison gas for the first time and suffered more than 60,000 casualties in less than a month.

But the right-wing will have its say, too – not least in an upcoming BBC documentary called Holy Offensive?, in which ex-MP Ann Widdecombe investigates "why Christianity is such ripe material for mocking by comedians".

Nevinson was present at the August Offensive in which the allies, bolstered by new troops, sought to break the deadlock at Anzac Cove though a series of coordinated actions including additional landings at nearby Sulva Bay.

But it is also a carefully choreographed political offensive in which New York's organizers are most aggressively targeting those of the 115 voting members whom they believe they can win over with the right amount of charm, reason and promises.