Sentence examples for surprise offensive from inspiring English sources
It has remained largely unchanged since the rebels' surprise offensive last autumn, when they infiltrated the city from the countryside.
They took over Yemen's capital, Sana'a, last autumn in a surprise offensive, and this year placed the president under house arrest.
Residents of the city, which was overrun by the Taliban after a surprise offensive at the end of September, are warning that efforts to push the Islamists back from the surrounding area have failed.
On January 30th, during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, the North Vietnamese Army and the Vietcong broke a ceasefire and launched a surprise offensive in more than a hundred cities and towns in South Vietnam.
The Iran-backed Houthis and their allies took control of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, in a surprise offensive last autumn, and placed the president, Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, under house arrest.
After the surprise offensive, many Zapatista villages were left abandoned and some of their former inhabitants were said to be reduced to drinking their own urine in temporary hideouts in the hills.
Muammar Gaddafi's increasingly stretched army is struggling to crush a surprise rebel offensive in Zawiya, a strategic town just 30 miles west of Tripoli, while fighting has also been reported in the largest town in the Libyan Sahara.
Its next engagement was in reaction to the surprise German offensive in the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge.
Withdrawn to England in September, the brigade returned to mainland Europe to counter the surprise German offensive in the Ardennes, better known as the Battle of the Bulge.
Percival would later deliver a series of lectures on his experiences in Ireland in which he stressed the importance of surprise and offensive action, intelligence gathering, maintaining security and co-operation between the security forces.
On the eastern front, the US X Corps was trapped at the port of Hungnam near the Chosin Reservoir during the surprise Chinese offensive, and was forced to evacuate North Korea by sea on December 24 , 1950
