Sentence examples for salient before from inspiring English sources
Late that evening, German artillery bombarded the Allied line around the Cordonnerie salient, before infantry launched a raid on the 11th Battalion's trenches.
The Germans advanced only 10 30 miles, and no large bag of Soviet prisoners was taken, since the Red Army had withdrawn their main forces from the salient before the German attack began.
In January 1916, General Sir Herbert Plumer recommended to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig the capture of Messines Ridge (part of the southern arc of the Ypres Salient) before an operation to capture the Gheluvelt plateau further north.
Manstein persisted, proposing that his forces should at least destroy the Soviet reserves in the southern Kursk salient before Citadel was finally terminated, so the Soviet fighting capacity in the sector would be depleted for the rest of the summer.
President-elect Carter's top aide, Hamilton Jordan, placed an angry call to Mr. Sorensen, asking why he had not mentioned this suddenly salient fact before accepting the nomination.
There may not, in fact, have been an unusual number of celebrity deaths this year, but they seem to have been much more salient than before.
He offered me one salient tip before making his exit: "The two most interesting things about Los Angeles," he said, "are the domestic architecture and the ephemeral population".
This means that it will attempt to create a reference signal weighting the perceptually salient data before comparing it to the degraded signal.
Thirty minutes later the 9th Squadron advanced, on foot, along the Wadi Aujah, and occupied a position on the west of the salient just before the Germans' Turkish allies attacked.
Stone ignores Gen. John J. Pershing, mastermind of a push by half a million American troops through the St.-Mihiel salient two months before the end of the war.
Stephan Winter proposed the importance of visibility of landmarks in advance of an intersection (Winter, 2003), with landmarks being preferred when they are not only salient but visible before arriving at an intersection.
