Sentence examples for rebel thrust from inspiring English sources
At first the rebel thrust moved swiftly.
It came as a shock, then, when they captured a border crossing near Wazen last week, a strategic victory for the beleaguered rebel forces that thrust the desert region under the world's gaze.
The Presidential Guardsmen who stood between the rebels and Diệm were estimated at between 30 and 60, but they managed to repel the initial thrust and kill seven rebels who attempted to scale the palace walls and run across the grass.
A government victory in the town could prove a setback to the rebel effort to amass forces for a thrust closer to Damascus, where government forces remain in control.
Ten days ago, the city was thrust forcefully into the war as rebels, including defected soldiers organized under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, charged into the city from the surrounding countryside, joining local fighters.
Hadi fled in March, after the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized the capital Sanaa in September and then thrust into central and south Yemen.
In the 1950s, denim was thrust into the limelight when James Dean wore blue jeans in "Rebel Without a Cause" and they went from a factory worker's uniform to the preferred pants of the greaser subculture.
That decision was thrust upon her in Liberia at Christmastime in 1989, when rebels supporting the warlord Charles G. Taylor's army came in search of her father, a high-ranking government soldier.
The rebels held their positions elsewhere, still under shelling, with light weapons, contemplating their next move now that their thrust had been checked.
Thrust stages aren't, well, thrusting.
