Sentence examples for outflanking from inspiring English sources

He is also convinced that the Tories have already put themselves on the wrong side of the argument by trying to water down anti-terrorism legislation.Both Mr Blair's conceivable successors, Mr Brown and John Reid, the pugnacious home secretary, will have no compunction about outflanking the Tories on the authoritarian right if they seem to be putting civil liberties before national security.

But he cannot rely on short-term political agreement.Co-operate and outflankIf his term is not to consist of a modest education package, a bungled tax cut and three years of squabbling, Mr Bush will have to find other ways of co-operating with, or outflanking, Democrats in Congress.

As a result, the Panzerwaffe was an elite force that grew out of the cavalry rather than the infantry, but it retained many elements of the latter's mode of operations, including an emphasis on interarm cooperation, a decentralized system of command operating within an exceptionally disciplined framework, and a penchant for outflanking and bypassing obstacles rather than confronting them head on.

With air support, Slim's reinforced forces now defended Imphāl against multiple Japanese thrusts and outflanking movements until, in mid-May 1944, he was able to launch two of his divisions into an offensive eastward, while still containing the last bold effort of the Japanese to capture Imphāl.

This plan envisaged a gigantic outflanking movement involving the infringement of Belgian neutrality with the aim of crushing France with one blow.

At first, Scipio's outflanking tactics failed against the master from whom he had learned them, because Hannibal widened his lines and did not allow his first two ranks of soldiers to back up, instead pushing them forward and out to the sides, with his veterans at the rear.

Alexander's well-trained army faced Darius' massive battle line and organized for attack, charging the left of the Persians' line with archers, javelin throwers, and cavalry, while defending against Darius' outflanking cavalry with reserve flank guards.

This permitted the introduction of elementary tactical maneuvers such as massing one's forces at a selected point, outflanking the enemy, and the oblique approach (in which one wing stormed the enemy while the other was held back).

In the Schlieffen plan of campaign against France, the German left (southern) wing would hold Alsace-Lorraine defensively while an overwhelmingly strong right (northern) wing would advance rapidly through Belgium and northern France, outflanking and eventually helping encircle the French armies while also capturing Paris.

Since Foch's general offensive had absorbed the Germans' reserves, this new offensive would fall on their bared left flank and held the promise of outflanking their whole new line of defense (from Antwerp to the line of the Meuse) and of intercepting any German retreat.

Moving ever closer to the target of a try that was so necessary with the Lions ahead by six points, Genia dived into the orchestra pit just once to take the ball on himself, before recovering his place as the conductor to make the final pass to Ashley-Cooper via O'Connor, outflanking the exhausted Brian O'Driscoll and Jonathan Davies.