Sentence examples for positions surrounding from inspiring English sources

Military officials said that another mission of the airborne unit would be to free the Third Infantry Division from its positions surrounding Najaf.

This is not a judgment on immigration policy or on the various positions surrounding immigration reform, or those who hold those positions.

Afghan Special Forces quickly took up positions surrounding the building, including on a rooftop situated directly between Emergency and the gunmen.

In 1916 a powerful German artillery attack on the French fortress positions surrounding Verdun lasted from February to June and resulted in 380,000 French casualties (162,000 dead) and 330,000 German casualties (143,000 dead).

As has been long predicted by military critics of a bombing campaign, Mayville said Isis was already changing its tactics in response to the air strikes, particularly around Mt Sinjar, where on Saturday US warplanes attacked Isis positions surrounding the mountain where tens of thousands of Iraqi Yazidis have taken a tenuous refuge.

But the military appears to be accelerating its campaign against the Kachin using heavy artillery, attack helicopters and other aircraft to flush out guerrillas from their positions surrounding Laiza, a town along the border with China that is the headquarters of the Kachin Indepedence Army.

The Taliban defended positions surrounded by minefields, a principal danger to coalition forces.

Specifically, we only analyzed positions surrounded by segments of protein alignments containing no insertions or deletions with a 5-amino acid window from each side.

Specifically, we only analyzed positions surrounded by segments of protein alignments containing no insertions or deletions within a 5-amino acid window from each side.

In this CoA binding region, the pantetheine arms of CoA adopts similar positions surrounded by several integral beta strands and alpha helices that overlap in superposition models, but the adenosine rings of CoA occupy differing conformations, with Gcn5 and Esa1 structures being more flexible.

The Spanish foreign minister, Josep Piqué, also said the legal position surrounding the 13 men was ambiguous because they did not face charges in Europe.