How To Use Counteroffensive In A Sentence

  • The Piedmontese army was unable to withstand the Austrian counteroffensive.
  • Restoring the corps echelon became an urgent necessity as early as the counteroffensive off Moscow.
  • Enduring a siege is one thing, but mounting an effective counteroffensive...? SHARDS OF A BROKEN CROWN
  • If an enemy's assault faltered, the mobilization could mount a counteroffensive and deliver the knockout blow.
  • As the counteroffensive went on, the fronts and armies were gaining experience in repelling counterattacks of big enemy tank force groupings.
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  • Spaniards enlisted Choco Indians in the counteroffensive with their feared poison-dart blowguns from the Pacific lowlands of Colombia.
  • He was recalling the talk of a "counteroffensive" against the intruder-and it frightened him. Children Of The Night
  • It is inexpedient to mount a counteroffensive with heavy losses as a result of the enemy's fire delivery or the penetration of a large amount of its tanks and motorized infantry.
  • Italy's interior minister, Roberto Maroni, called upon authorities in Greece to cooperate in what he called a counteroffensive to Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • On the other side of the aisle, the Obama re-election campaign has quietly opened a counteroffensive against Republican-backed changes to election laws that Democrats say will suppress votes for their candidates and limit their get-out-the-vote drives, a campaign Republicans are calling manipulative. This Week: Europe Trembles, Cain Parries, MF Files
  • Some Costa Ricans know better: A coalition of antitax activists has launched a public information counteroffensive to inform citizens of the cost of the tax hike. Tax 'Experts' Target Costa Rica
  • China, perennially sensitive to frontier threats, launched a shock counteroffensive to save its communist neighbor.
  • Nor is it an effective answer to the grim counteroffensive which is causing so much suffering to millions of people. INTENSIFY THE REVOLUTION
  • For example, modern armies are capable of defending rather vast areas and launching counteroffensives in the same or smaller areas once reserve forces have moved up.
  • What about widening our attack so the counteroffensive takes some time and does larger damage?
  • The counteroffensive came hours after Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie predicted Democrats will run what he called the dirtiest campaign in modern presidential politics. CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2004
  • When fuel shortages finally halted the 4th AD, the Germans marshaled reserves and planned a counteroffensive against the Third Army.
  • The counteroffensive is a special type of offensive that defending forces execute. FM 100-61 Chptr 2 Strategic Operations
  • The counteroffensive in the Moscow region marked the beginning of a turning point not only in the course of the Great Patriotic War but also in World War II as a whole.
  • In the ensuing counteroffensive, four soldiers were killed and four mutineers were beaten to death after being captured.
  • The US trade representative appeared to demand ‘fast track’ negotiating authority on the grounds it was part of a counteroffensive against terrorism.
  • It would of course be wrong to reject the possibility of mounting a counteroffensive at the initial period of war.
  • The following month, in response to the German counteroffensive in the Battle of the Bulge, Eisenhower, as supreme Allied commander, ordered the French to retreat behind the Vosges.
  • Should the enemy penetrate the defense, a counteroffensive can be mounted.
  • Although allied airstrikes helped rebels regain battlefield momentum, pro-Qaddafi forces on Tuesday halted a westward push by the rebels and began a counteroffensive.
  • Florida's business community - especially its large restaurant and tourism industry - mounted an expensive counteroffensive.
  • If an enemy's assault faltered, the mobilization could mount a counteroffensive and deliver the knockout blow.
  • The statement, read out repeatedly, said the president's forces were planning to launch a "counteroffensive" from the airport on ANC Daily News Briefing
  • To preserve and protect current and future sources, he mounted a counteroffensive that required him to trash his original story.
  • The White House counteroffensive is too little, too late. White House launches counteroffensive over Drudge Report link
  • QUESTION: But what evidence is there from a military standpoint that they have the ability to either regroup or launch any kind of counteroffensive, given the pounding that they've taken for the past two months? CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2001
  • Q Are you going to mount any kind of counteroffensive, other than having the President criticize it here at the White House? Press Briefing By Barry Toiv And David Leavy
  • In the ensuing counteroffensive, four soldiers were killed and four mutineers were beaten to death after being captured.
  • This initial victory displayed the terrific momentum of our counteroffensive.
  • The counteroffensive was planned as a single strategic operation by a group of fronts to encircle and destroy all enemy forces that had broken through to the Volga.
  • Unlike the Stalingrad counteroffensive, the corps, divisions, regiments and battalions in the main sectors were attacking in two and, sometimes, in three echelons.
  • By this time, Ridgway's army had once again crossed the 38th Parallel where its forward units dug into strong defensive ground in anticipation of an enemy counteroffensive.
  • Restoring the corps echelon became an urgent necessity as early as the counteroffensive off Moscow.
  • In the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, cooks, clerks and mechanics from different units joined together to fight well and stave off the German counteroffensive.
  • Mr Feltri, who is leading an aggressive "counteroffensive" to "unmask" critics of scandals in Mr Berlusconi's private life, had unearthed a 2004 incident in which Mr Boffo paid a fine for alleged telephone harassment of the wife of an unnamed man whom Il Giornale claimed had been his gay lover, adding that he was a homosexual "known to the police for this kind of activity". Vatican succumbs to attack by Italian Government
  • During the counteroffensive, the antiaircraft artillery shot down 700 planes.
  • Rahman, who went on a media counteroffensive last week, denies any knowledge of Abouhalima, Salameh, Shalabi's death or the bombing. The Trail To 'The Jihad Office'

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