Sentence examples for take offensive action from inspiring English sources
More importantly, Gen. Rose established the UN Rapid Reaction Force, a heavily armed unit with more aggressive rules of engagement, designed to take offensive action if necessary to prevent hostage-taking and enforce peace agreements.
By his refusal as army commander to take offensive action against the insurgents in 1958, Chehab had earned the confidence of the Muslims.
Urged by the French to take offensive action against the Germans, the Russian commander in chief, Grand Duke Nicholas, took it loyally but prematurely, before the cumbrous Russian war machine was ready, by launching a pincer movement against East Prussia.
When directed by the president or defense secretary, the military unit, located at Fort Meade with the NSA, may also take offensive action such as disrupting an adversary's computer networks.
Egyptians appear confident that the Soviet Union will ful fill its commitment to defend the country, but no one ex pects the Russians to under take offensive action against the Israelis or to fly near the Suez Canal.
Hitler, bypassing the usual chain of command, telephoned Manstein directly and ordered him to take offensive action in the area.
Now, of course, the dinosaur is on its feet and taking offensive action.
US and UK fighters continued to patrol the skies in the south of Iraq, frequently taking offensive action.
President Hamid Karzai called on American-led forces to apply themselves more earnestly to avoiding civilian casualties and to check intelligence reports more carefully before taking offensive action.
Mr. Panetta said that American forces were already responding to the threat "unilaterally," implying that they were taking offensive action on their own, without Iraqi troops alongside.
In his last term in Congress, Mr. Owens was one of 45 Democrats to sue President George Bush to prevent him from taking offensive action in the Persian Gulf without obtaining a Congressional declaration of war "or other explicit authority from the Congress".
