Sentence examples for preparing an offensive from inspiring English sources
Iraqi government forces captured eastern Mosul last month and are preparing an offensive on the western side that remains under the militants' control.
Now it is preparing an offensive against the last rebel enclave: Idlib, a largely rural province that abuts the country's northwestern border with Turkey.
The Pakistani military is also preparing an offensive in South Waziristan, the rugged mountainous tribal region straddling the border with Afghanistan.
But he said that technological advances since he was last a college coach -- at South Carolina in the late 1980's -- had helped ease the difficulty of recruiting while preparing an offensive game plan for the Super Bowl.
General Eaton, who is leaving the country in a week and handing his duties to a new team, says it is a great improvement from the situation on April 5. On that day, as 4,500 American marines were preparing an offensive against Falluja, soldiers from the Second Battalion of the Iraqi Army were called into the fight.
"When you are talking about preparing an offensive football team for the season, what you want, you want to be on a team that is coached by Donnie Henderson and plays to the tempo that these guys play," Hackett said during training camp.
Mr. Fabius prepared an offensive to oust Mr. Jospin's main ally, Pierre Mauroy, who has served as the party's first secretary since 1988.
LONDON — The European Union is ready to send troops to prepare an offensive against renegade Islamist forces occupying northern Mali, a fiefdom that could become a springboard for terrorist attacks on Europe.
Maliki promised the army would not attack residential areas in Falluja as his forces prepare an offensive that has echoes of US assaults in 2004 on the city, 25 miles west of Baghdad's main airport.
Ridgway had prepared an offensive known as Operation Rugged, and pressed MacArthur for permission to launch it.
A report by the Daily Beast earlier this month claims the Pentagon had prepared an offensive cyberattack against Russia if they interfered with the midterm elections.
