Sentence examples for recapture it from from inspiring English sources

— The Japanese soldiers in camouflage face paint and full combat gear were dropped by American helicopters onto this treeless, hilly island, and moved quickly to recapture it from an imaginary invader.

There is a military convoy heading to Maarat al-Numan to recapture it from the FSA, but the FSA fighters are not allowing the convoy to progress at all.

During a seesaw battle for the city of Huambo, in 1993, for example, Mr. Savimbi shelled the city of 400,000 for weeks to recapture it from the government, and reportedly attacked columns of refugees from his own ethnic group.

In 1956, he spearheaded a drive to take control of the Suez Canal when the British-French thrust to recapture it from Egypt was thwarted by a United Nations cease-fire.

The retirement last year of Mr Brokaw, who had snatched first place away from Mr Jennings, offered the ABC man a chance to recapture it from the less experienced Brian Williams but then cancer struck.In this section By the numbers The problem with ghetto grocers A nasty smell Gotti go now?

On Saturday, US air strikes targeted IS fighters near north Iraq's vital Mosul dam, after reports of an operation by Iraqi and Kurdish forces to recapture it from the militants.

The problem is to select an optimal threshold on the workload of the agent so that the agent releases the CPU and recaptures it from time-to-time based on its workload.

American and Iraqi forces continued to consolidate their grip on Fallujah, after recapturing it from insurgents.

Coín was a Moorish stronghold until Ferdinand V of Castile (also Ferdinand II of Aragon) recaptured it from the Moors in 1485.

Isis militants have launched a huge counter-offensive in the key city of Ramadi days after government forces recaptured it from the jihadist group's control.

Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem in 163 B.C. after the Maccabees recaptured it from the Syrian Greeks.