Sentence examples for retake ground from inspiring English sources

20], this one in the Andalusian region, as Nationalists pushed their campaign to retake ground lost in the surprise Loyalist drive in the Ebro sector several weeks ago.

A1 The Pentagon is worried that difficulty in installing a popularly accepted government in Iraq will mean that soldiers may have to repeatedly retake ground they captured in the invasion.

Tikrit is deemed an important test of the ability of Iraq, with coalition support, to retake ground it ceded to the Islamic State last year.

In a multi-sided civil war, the Saudi-led coalition struggled for months to retake ground from the Houthis, a Shiite Muslim group.

In November, the Chinese launched another offensive to retake ground lost during these operations, which was again repulsed by UN forces.

The toll is despite no serious attempts being made to retake lost ground.

Rebels have mounted several offensives to consolidate their gains, and the Syrian military has been fighting to retake lost ground.

Sudan's government seized the opportunity to retake the ground and now appears to be pushing farther into areas long held by the rebels, according to peacekeepers stationed here.

It's not a guarantee that they'll be able to retake lost ground in that segment, but it's clear the opposite strategy wasn't working in terms of long-term growth.

To date there have been more than 1,250 coalition strikes in Iraq, and many partners have joined in not just the air action, but the effort to retrain and re-equip the Iraqi army so that it can retake the ground lost last summer to the jihadists.

This enabled the JNA's 252nd Armoured Brigade to retake the ground that it had lost.