Sentence examples for single bridgehead from inspiring English sources

With the arrival of additional reinforcements, Arnim proceeded to expand the perimeters around Tunis and Bizerte into a single bridgehead.

It is worth pointing out that the invasive bridgehead effect is evolutionarily parsimonious: a single evolutionary shift in a single introduced population (the bridgehead) is required whereas multiple changes are required if introduced populations had become invasive independently.

Despite permission by General Kurt Student, the German commander in Rotterdam refused to evacuate this bridgehead and the few German defenders held fast in a single office building, protected by a canal in front of them and covered by fire from the south bank.

This demonstration of a mechanism of invasion via a bridgehead has important implications both for invasion theory (i.e., a single evolutionary shift in the bridgehead population versus multiple changes in case of introduced populations becoming invasive independently) and for ongoing efforts to manage invasions by alien organisms (i.e., heightened vigilance against invasive bridgeheads).

Thus before a single shot was fired, the Soviets had effectively split the city in half, controlled all bridgeheads, and were shielded to the rear by the wide Danube river.

A single platoon of the regiment remained but the ARSK troops did not exploit the opportunity to destroy the bridgehead.

It's humans who are the bridgehead.

It is time to follow the bridgehead with a breakthrough.

Soldiers manned machine-gun nests at every bridgehead.

He also designed the Buda Tunnel at the Buda bridgehead.

Schools – and particularly female education – are seen as a bridgehead of "corrupting modernity".