Sentence examples for quick assault from inspiring English sources

Rejecting a protracted siege, Marlborough decided in favour of a quick assault, before the position could be made impregnable.

Republicans said the quick, intense assault was the leading edge of an effort by the Bush campaign to keep the Democrats from establishing Mr. Edwards as a Southern moderate who could help Mr. Kerry among swing voters in the battleground Northern and Midwestern states.

Inspiration has come from model airplanes (reconnaissance drones), "supersoaker" water guns (quick-loading assault weapons), cheap cellular phones for teenagers (video-capable walkie-talkies) and gaming control panels (for unmanned robotic vehicles).

A strategy was developed based on the tactic of Blitzkrieg (lightning war), which involved using quick coordinated assaults that avoided enemy strong points.

Now random phrases and images came at me — the sudden quick-fire assaults that signal a new idea — and I knew that they would come in sequence soon enough, their predestined rhythms would assert.

The call came over 911 at 2 16 a.m. on a cool October morning: a quick and brutal assault by two men that left a third twitching on the pavement.

The subsequent attacks followed a similar pattern, and most came in quick succession — two assaults were only 12 minutes apart.

They utilised American tactics of quick airborne (helibourne) assaults supported by heavy aerial bombardments of FRELIMO camps by the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) to surround and eliminate the guerrillas.

From their invention, newsweeklies have been under assault by quicker media, forcing them to ease away from the "what," toward the "how" and "why," and more recently, to "here's what to do about it".

In his book, De Bello Neapolitano, Iovianus Pontanus sees the Albanian landing as essential to Ferdinand's victory: their quick maneuvering and swift assaults virtually immobilized the Italian warriors.

Mr Sanusi was quick to say that the assault took months to plan and was not provoked by his comments.