1708 examples of offensives in sentences

The long series of Battles of the Isonzo,the journalists counted up to twelve of them in the first twenty-seven months in which Italy was at war,the succession of offensives "from Tolmino to the sea," which were only dimly realised in England and France, cost Italy the flower of her youth.

Through that bloody series of offensives the Italians slowly but steadily gained ground, and drew ever nearer to Trento and Trieste.

"We have made too many offensives on our own, unaided.

They no longer hoped that it would break and so prevent further Austrian offensives.

They hoped it would continue and so permit offensives of their own.

The day was coming when Italy would win back all she had lost, and far more than she had ever won before, far more swiftly and cheaply than in her early brave offensives, and Austria, like Germany, would be broken in hopeless, irretrievable defeat.

At first much of the space on the transports was devoted to supplies and materials for the camps and depots in France, but as the situation became critical owing to successful enemy offensives, fewer supplies and more men were sent.

Berlin admitted that the offensives on the Sereth and Riga fronts had been temporarily stopped, that many prisoners had been taken by the Russians, and that the German lines had been withdrawn because of superior pressure.

Essential for defense, and for protection, an organ in which everything necessary for the stratagems of retreat, or the offensives of attack, are supplied ad libitum, while everything non-essential or detrimental to the matter of the moment is inhibited, arrested and suppressedno more perfect sample of the design with which Life is drenched could be imagined by the most closeted of passionate idealists.

Adj. unsavory, unpalatable, unsweetened, unsweet^; ill-flavored; bitter, bitter as gall; acrid, acrimonious; rough. offensive, repulsive, nasty; sickening &c v.; nauseous; loathsome, fulsome; unpleasant &c 830.

Adj. fetid; strong-smelling; high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty^, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy^; olid^, olidous^; nidorous^; smelling, stinking; putrid &c 653; suffocating, mephitic; empyreumatic^. 401a.

"Such things as we have been long accustomed to, though they be evil in their own nature, yet they are less offensive."

With us, Maxima pars victus in carne consistit, we feed on flesh most part, saith Polydore Virgil, as all northern countries do; and it would be very offensive to us to live after their diet, or they to live after ours.

It had been ascertained that the French Government, which urged this blockade as the ground of its Berlin decree, was willing in the event of its removal to repeal that decree, which, being followed by alternate repeals of the other offensive edicts, might abolish the whole system on both sides.

The soldier must be continually impressed with the extreme importance of the offensive due to its moral effect.

Should an attack fail, it should be followed immediately by another attack before the opponent has an opportunity to assume the offensive.

If, due to circumstances, it is necessary to take the defensive, constantly watch for an opportunity to assume the offensive and take immediate advantage of it.

The offensive should he continually encouraged.

Men should be impressed with the importance of acting always on the offensive in bayonet combat, of pushing their attack with all their might.

The offensive alone gives decisive results.

A quick and energetic offensive minimizes losses.

On the contrary, they seem to have regained strength after their withdrawal from China: they reorganized themselves and were soon capable of counter-thrusts, while Chinese offensives had as a rule very little success, and at all events no decisive success.

But the Kaiser and his War-lords are still passing their victims through the fire to the Pan-German Moloch, and threatening to send German generals to teach the Austrian Army how to win offensives.

He is fond of launching offensives, and his favorite method of warfare is a sudden attack from the rear.

"R.T. I dislike all Spring offensives.

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