Sentence examples for strategic vantage points from inspiring English sources

Official heralds from both sides stood at strategic vantage points to observe the battle and set down for posterity the deeds of men at arms.

The campaign's encounters with enemies are typically large, open spaces with weapons caches, cover from enemy fire and strategic vantage points.

Occupying an area only 83 feet across and 100 feet wide, Rockall represented a strategic vantage point for the rival gaze of Soviet intelligence.

Witnesses on the border said Israeli forces appeared to be blowing up their own former installations at the strategic vantage point before their final departure.

In the war it made it the focus of particularly bloody struggle, as from 1914-15 the French struggled to reclaim this strategic vantage point from the Germans.

Gazzetta dello Sport described an operation planned with "almost military" precision, as fans appeared with faces covered to launch rocks at the bus's window from a strategic vantage point.

3 p.m. 1. VIEW FROM ABOVE A great place to get the lay of the land is the summit of Mount Srdj, which looks out across the Old Town to the sea and back over the mountains of Herzegovina, a situation that made it a strategic vantage point in defending against the Turks, the Venetians and countless other covetous foreign powers.

The hill was leveled during the Revolutionary War by the British, who wanted to keep George Washington, who had occupied the hill with his troops in the summer of 1776 during the Battle of Long Island, from having a strategic vantage point over their headquarters in Brooklyn Heights.

Groups of singers, each with their own megaphone-equipped leader, were arrayed on the atrium steps and on different balconies above and around the audience, while conductor Simon Halsey supervised it all from a strategic vantage point, and the entries of the individual groups were cued with coloured flags.

It also gives the People's Army a strategic vantage point over a global currency.

Viewed from this more strategic vantage point, the South China Sea is not just about fishing rights and potential energy deposits.