Sentence examples for postpone the attack from inspiring English sources

"To postpone the attack now is taking the same risk maybe as in 1939, in the face of Adolf Hitler," he said.

Men became lost during the night — whole regiments got lost, even guides got lost — and by dawn entire divisions were so hopelessly entangled that it became necessary to postpone the attack until April 6, perhaps a fatal error.

What other diplomatic front can we now triumph on?" Fedor Lukyanov, a prominent pundit on international relations, told Interfax news agency Obama had been waiting for an excuse to postpone the attack.

General von Toll initially planned to order his infantry to start the assault at 16:00, but Paskevich through his aides ordered him to postpone the attack until 16:45.

This, along with news from Italy that Mussolini would not honour the Pact of Steel, prompted Hitler to postpone the attack on Poland from 25 August to 1 September.

He responded he would do so only if the fog lifted; although the 51st Army opened its artillery barrage on time because front headquarters could not contact the division, the rest of the forces prepared for the operation received orders to postpone the attack until 10 00.

We have before us no less than 17 orders postponing the attack time and again.

Many of the 17 orders postponing the attack in the West for various reasons including weather conditions, until May, 1940, were signed by Jodl.

But he said he believed that the United States would strike and that Mr. Obama had hardened his position in his speech on Saturday, even as he postponed the attack.

It said Israel had the alternatives of postponing the attack until the target was not inside a house full of civilians, using less destructive means and giving effective warning.

As predicted here, Saddam Hus sein faced with the certainty of a U.S.-led overthrow of his brutal regime -- has restarted the business of postponing the attack until he can finish making weapons of mass destruction.