Sentence examples for securing enemy from inspiring English sources

Women did the sewing, cooking and farming, while the men hunted and prepared for military activity and securing enemy heads in headhunting raids, which was a common practice in early Taiwan.

Soon, the task forces merged to establish "Joint Task Force Guantánamo" to house and secure "enemy combatants" in Camp X-Ray, which was closed after just 4 months following reports of torture.

By comparing the Russian situation with those of other empires, however, Lieven is able to show with much greater force and nuance how certain social conditions often portrayed as peculiarly Russian in fact derived from the imperial drive to defend a sprawling, multinational empire against better-financed and more secure enemies.

Clausewitz once wrote that securing an enemy's compliance requires "plac[ing] him in a situation which is more oppressive to him than the sacrifice which we demand".

And it must be secure from the enemy, too.

There are familiar game modes that give you a short time to diffuse a bomb, rescue a hostage or keep an area secure from your enemy.

Francis, Mr. Coviello's trusty vanity-case-size affenpinscher, was ranging the amber-lighted apartment one snowy evening last week, securing it from enemies, when he discovered a large felt chicken and set upon it in a series of deadly squeaks.

The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) tweeted at 04:00 GMT that the consulate was secure "with all enemy forces being killed".

Instability in Iraq is bad for both; the Taliban is a shared enemy; secure passage to of oil through the Straits of Hormuz of Hormuz is critical.

The airstrip was secured from the enemy, although it would be hours before it dried out enough for C-130s to land.

At first the enemy secured a foothold in some advanced trenches which were not strongly held, but sturdy counterattacks succeeded in driving the enemy out with serious losses, and the line was entirely re-established.