Sentence examples for taking the town from inspiring English sources

The R.P.F. was taking the town.

The library-board members are thinking of taking the town to court to get it back.

"The main objective now is to cut off Mazar-i-Sharif, by taking the town of Qal'eh-ye Now," he says.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO commanders were overly optimistic when they predicted quick success last winter in taking the town of Marja from the Taliban, the outgoing deputy commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan said Saturday.

Mladić's forces took U.N. peacekeepers hostage in order to thwart retaliatory NATO air strikes, and, in the final months of the conflict, after taking the town of Srebrenica, "systematically murdered several thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys".

Back to the top For Gregory Mann argues that French intervention was necessary to stop the Islamists from taking the town of Sevaré, which would have meant the loss of the only airstrip in Mali capable of handling heavy cargo planes, apart from that in Bamako.

The late rebel leader John Garang had talked of "taking the towns to the people", bringing representation, development and services to the rural areas where most people live.

Mathematicians and bureaucrats have taken the town.

The United States military once took the town under its wing.

The Kurds took the town back in January.

He put the Mets in position to take the town.