Sentence examples for surprise strike from inspiring English sources

He also said the US is maintaining "a surprise strike posture with frequent flight of B-1B and B-2 formations to the airspace of South Korea".

Union officials said last night that the strike, coming after a one-day surprise strike in January and a two-day strike in February, would continue indefinitely.

Violence erupted in November of last year, following a surprise strike by Ivorian government warplanes that killed nine French peacekeepers and an American aid worker.

At this point, more traditional arms-controllers tear their hair; such missiles are too potent, ideally suited for a surprise strike, and thus destabilising to the overall strategic balance.

These missiles, which have pinpoint accuracy, are scattered around the country in such a way that only one potential enemy, Russia, would have any chance of rendering the arsenal impotent with a surprise strike.

NATO was so worried about the Soviet Union's 10-warhead SS-18 that its code name for the missile was Satan, and Reagan administration hard-liners warned darkly that it would be useful for a surprise strike.

1963 French to Put Limits on Utility Strikes PARIS — The government today [July 3] announced that it will introduce a bill in the National Assembly to outlaw surprise strikes in public utilities.

Twitter sprang the biggest surprise, striking a deal with the NFL to stream 10 Thursday-night American football matches, paying a reported $10m for the rights.

The battle tactics are dispersion, surprise, strikes where the enemy is weak and unprepared, disappearance into the vastness of the ocean, and a continuing erosion of enemy morale and dilution of his resources.

An even greater surprise struck the town last year when Carter, representing Lee, filed a lawsuit against the Monroe County museum, which curates a To Kill a Mockingbird exhibition, holds an annual theatrical performance of it, and shows thousands of visitors each year around the quaint wooden courtroom that was so faithfully recreated by Universal Studios for the Gregory Peck movie.

Still, a series of surprise strikes last year suggested labour costs are likely to start rising in Indonesia too.