Sentence examples for pursuing army from inspiring English sources

The pursuing army was at times just a couple of hours behind her and her fellow evacuees.

Part of their informal collaboration involved Gulenist prosecutors pursuing army officers, as part of the AKP campaign to weaken the all-powerful military's hold over politics.

Leading his starving band, Black Hawk fled from Atkinson's pursuing army.

'ISRAEL IN EGYPT' If you enjoy Handel's vividly pictorial choral writing in "Messiah," you'll find much to admire in this oratorio as well, with its evocation of the 10 plagues visited on Egypt for its intransigence and a jubilant precursor to the "Hallelujah" Chorus, after the pursuing Egyptian army is drowned in the Red Sea.

The delay, however, proved critical in helping the pursuing Union army overtake and later capture Morgan and his forces.

The pursuing Mongol army caught up with Mstislav of Kiev's forces and started to besiege the camp.

Although a Confederate victory, the Battle of Corydon had delayed Morgan by six crucial hours, allowing the pursuing Union army to begin closing the gap.

The latter fled south into the Hejaz, where they attacked a caravan of Hajj pilgrims returning from Mecca in June 982, before in turn destroying a pursuing Fatimid army under Muflih al-Wahbani at Ayla.

The task of pursuing three armies retiring in a vast and friendly country by converging lines would certainly have been difficult, and might not have been successful.

The rebels, who still control Bouaké, the second city, rejected a call by President Laurent Gbagbo to disarm ahead of negotiations.The Israeli army, pursuing Hamas militants, raided Khan Yunis, a town in southern Gaza, killing 16 people.

In 1799, pursuing the Mamluk army of Murad Bey all the way to the first cataract of the Nile, General Desaix carved into the face of Trajan's kiosk at Philae an inscription celebrating the victories of the army of the Republic.