Sentence examples for the encirclement from inspiring English sources

The annexation of Memel accentuated the encirclement of Poland.

Turkish soldiers are watching the encirclement of Kobani from their positions a few hundred yards away.

The coalition has control of the main northward roads, but the encirclement of Baghdad is porous.

The Germans captured 240,000 Soviet prisoners in the encirclement that followed.

Even his titles have a classical ring: "The Encirclement," "The Miracles of Saint Marx".

Three years later Saladin occupied Aleppo, virtually completing the encirclement of the Latin states.

But the U-turn by the marines suggested that some problems with the encirclement remained.

There was fresh evidence of the encirclement of Ponting coming into this Test.

Later, a Ukrainian unit from outside the encirclement drove in to try to retrieve the wounded, he said.

About the encirclement of the village, Major Dixon said, "There are going to be three landing zones for the choppers.

What is clear is that several of the small groups that broke through the encirclement suffered significant losses.