Sentence examples for offensives on from inspiring English sources

It has come under pressure from both Yemeni offensives on the ground and CIA aerial drone strikes, one of which last year controversially killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a media-savvy jihadist who encouraged others to carry out attacks in the West.

"Basically, it was just a coincidence that you had a dynamic of reciprocal sieges and offensives on those two villages and Ahrar al-Sham was involved in both," said one diplomat.

Alarmed by last year's widespread unrest in Tibetan-inhabited areas, the government is waging offensives on all fronts.

The next three months saw three more Italian offensives on the Isonzo, none of them really profitable.

In two offensives on July 18 and on August 8, Foch drove Ludendorff back to a defensive position.

His offensives on the Russian front also were repulsed, in part because of his late redeployment of Austria's strategic reserve to the East, but more because of Conrad's insistence on attacking a numerically superior enemy.

Last Monday, militants launched an offensive "on all fronts" against Kurdish fighters, activists said.

In one direction is the traditional path of taking the offensive on perceived copyright wrongs.

It's offensive on so many levels.

The offensive on Toamasina has already begun.

It's offensive on different levels".