outflank

How To Use outflank In A Sentence

• They were under orders to circle south and east to surround Paris and outflank the Allied armies, ending the war within six weeks.
• The Clinton Campaign in 1992 was brilliant, in that The War Room anticipated GOP attacks, and outflanked the MSM with pre-buttals. Firedoglake » FDL Book Salon — Lapdogs, Pt. 2
• Labour, we are told plans to "outflank" Cameron on the EU. A vast network of influence
• His squadron was now racing back through the Dominion battle group to engage the Alliance fleet moving to outflank.
• Why Moyes's outflanked men missed their Anfield opportunity Everton keen to show positive intent to end winless run at Liverpool
• If only you had my meekness," Dürer wrote to Pirkheimer (set: p. 85), half in jest doubtless, but with profound truth: -- though the word meekness does not indeed cover the whole of what we feel made Dürer's most radical advantage over his friend; at other times we might call it naïvety, that sincerity of great and simple natures which can never be outflanked or surprised. Albert Durer
• Not only does Italy have every advantage that both Austria and Turkey do, but it also gains the advantage of outflanking Austria by convoying an army into Greece.
• The mayor "outflanked" the large contingent of known community activists who showed up at the Council chambers to oppose the switch by running an informal poll of City residents on her Facebook page. Falls Church News-Press Online
• The purpose was to break the stabilized situation by outflanking besieged Madrid with an Italian motorized corps from the north and then linking up with nationalist forces.
• The Prussian gunner officer saw another troop of Dragoons threatening to outflank his position.