Sentence examples for seizing ground from inspiring English sources

"Back then, I was coordinating the protests in Damascus and the rebels were seizing ground in the countryside," he said.

BENGHAZI, Libya — After a period of political turmoil, fighters opposing Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi advanced on several fronts on Sunday, seizing ground in the strategic city of Zawiyah that placed them on Tripoli's doorstep and threatening to cut off an important supply line for the colonel's loyalists.

Afghanistan believes that Pakistan is taking advantage of the reduction in US forces, seizing ground and setting up new border posts, he adds.

Central government control has whittled away as Isis has seized ground and public confidence in the political class has tanked.

In particular, he will need to identify the loyalties of the ground troops that would seize ground from Isis in Syria.

Having seized ground near the base's western edge, from where they can fire onto two runways, they have forced the Syrian Air Force to cease flights to and from this place.

The journalist, who supports the government but requested anonymity to go beyond official statements, said he believed the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was trying to seize ground from other rebel groups.

Most of them have yet to learn how to hold seized ground, or to protect themselves from their battlefield's persistent rocket and mortar fire, which might be done by simply digging in.

The operation is the largest coordinated effort so far to seize ground from Isis and a test of US plans to defeat the group using the Kurds as proxies.

Eurosceptic and far-right parties have seized ground in the elections to the European Parliament.

Eurosceptic and far-right parties have seized ground in elections to the European parliament, in what France's PM called a "political earthquake".