Combined with the news of the Wiriyamu massacre and that of renewed FRELIMO onslaughts through 1973 and early 1974, the worsening situation in Mozambique later contributed to the downfall of the Portuguese government in 1974.
Plan XVII also miscalculated the direction and scope of the coming onslaught: though it foresaw an invasion through Belgium, it assumed that the Germans would take the route through the Ardennes, thereby exposing their communications to attack.
Another means of disarming the onslaught is through reframing, just as you would a picture.
But as it mounts its fourth annual onslaught on Lower Manhattan (through May 1), the TriBeCa Film Festival is flexing more artistic muscle than ever before.
Yet he wondered aloud what would happen if the Taliban onslaught continued, breaking through Mr. Massoud's defenses, crossing the Kokcha River and aiming itself in his family's way once again.
Laura Robson, hitting with the unfettered teenage flair she has shown from the start of the tournament, saved eight match- points but not the ninth as the defending champion, Sam Stosur, survived her doomed onslaught to go through to the quarter-finals of the US Open.
This year's onslaught comes halfway through a presidential election that was widely seen as a success for the Afghan government and security forces — and a failure for the Taliban that pledged to disrupt it.
"The world today requires that a brand be hyper-present to break through the onslaught of data smog," he said.
