Sentence examples for start an offensive from inspiring English sources

If they refused, he said, his security forces would start an offensive.

He said Ukrainian forces were likely to start an offensive on Luhansk soon.

Mr. Kitsmarishvili said the president aimed to start an offensive in 2004, but met with resistance from Western and other Georgian officials.

While the tough line might have some effect on the immigrant gangs, it could easily be seen by the Hell's Angels as giving them the upper hand and reason to start an offensive.

Many in Colombia felt that if the effort collapsed, the army would start an offensive to retake territory that the government ceded to the rebels in 1998 as an inducement to pursue negotiations.

The attempt to kill the state defense minister, Yusuf Mohamed Siyad — who is known by his nickname, Indahaadde, or white eyes — came as the besieged Western-backed government was preparing to start an offensive against Islamist insurgents who have links to Al Qaeda.

Dutch business has started an offensive against the SP, with more media carrying stories of the dangers of putting the country in the party's hands.

The Marine division that led the assault that retook Falluja from insurgents says it has now started an offensive in Ramadi.

After nearly a year of calm along the border, Ethiopia started an offensive on Friday, saying it wanted a quick end to a war that has drained its economy and complicated a food shortage that has affected millions of people.

A week after Ethiopia started an offensive that it says is aimed at ending the two-year-old war, it is now clear that the whole of Eritrea could become a battlefield.

The Mexican police have been under constant attack since President Felipe Calderón took office in December 2007 and started an offensive against drug cartels that had corrupted the municipal police forces and local officials in several towns along the border with the United States and on both coasts.