How To Use Outflank In A Sentence
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They were under orders to circle south and east to surround Paris and outflank the Allied armies, ending the war within six weeks.
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The Clinton Campaign in 1992 was brilliant, in that The War Room anticipated GOP attacks, and outflanked the MSM with pre-buttals.
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Labour, we are told plans to "outflank" Cameron on the EU.
A vast network of influence
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His squadron was now racing back through the Dominion battle group to engage the Alliance fleet moving to outflank.
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Why Moyes's outflanked men missed their Anfield opportunity
Everton keen to show positive intent to end winless run at Liverpool
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Prussian gunner officer saw another troop of Dragoons threatening to outflank his position.
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Driven partly by the hope of outflanking the Islamic world, partly by the hope of trade, the Portuguess by 1446 reached Cape Verde , then the equator, and by 1482 the Congo River.
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Fifteen hundred troops were landed to outflank the forts.
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They found themselves outflanked by the rival takeover bid.
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If Wellington did not attack from the west, but instead tried to outflank the plain by marching about the French right, then Jourdan would have to turn his battle-line and resite his guns.
Sharpe's Honour
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In this way they hoped to prevent the enemy from outflanking them.
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In ancient times, the wedge was used to allow a formation to rapidly change directions and outflank an opponent.
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Here was another incident in that continual "flanking" and "outflanking" manoeuvre which was only to cease at the sea.
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This reference to the Ulster Unionists in particular is a clear sign that Mr Robinson - already under pressure due to last month's European election result - does not intend to find himself "outflanked" by Jim Allister's Traditional Unionist Voice on one side and the Ulster Unionists on the other.
Slugger O'Toole
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We needn't attempt the impossible - we can outflank Bangazi Lodge this way!
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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One such coalition in Oxford resulted in them being outflanked on the left by New Labour after the predictable round of compromises made because of budgetary restraints.
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The government has outflanked the opposition by cutting taxes.
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And it was the Japanese, too, who achieved the most astounding military victory in Malaya in 1942 with the assistance of the bike, which their army used to outflank the ponderous British forces.
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It doubles the number of sabres to be used against the enemy; and it enables the cavalry to cover double the ground; thus doubling, also, its power to outflank, which is a valuable advantage, especially when opposed to cavalry.
A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry
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Brown has outflanked Gray by introducing a bill to toughen First Source standards.
Clock ticking on Mayor Vincent C. Gray's honeymoon
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Instead of confronting the enemy directly, Napoleon simply outflanked them.
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Neither is it the pursuit of the fruitless objective to project media images intended to "outflank" or "out-compete" other forces for national democratic change, in a meaningless contest to advertise any claimed revolutionary credentials.
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But the important thing was to outflank the enemy.
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But most of the other attempts to outflank fashion end up as commentaries which have much less power than the commercially honed objects from which they attempt to distance themselves.
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If the group is staggered or further spread out so you can't outflank them to the side, you have to become especially evasive.
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The troops attack from the march by performing enveloping and outflanking maneuvers and striking at the flanks and the rear.
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He demurs, is outflanked and outvoted and finally gives grudging agreement to the match.
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'Last night when you picked off that Jerry trying to outflank us - swing-lead-squeeze,' he said, demonstrating.
AMAGANSETT
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By the end of July, the forces of the three fronts outflanked the Orel force grouping of the enemy in the north, east and south.
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They found themselves outflanked by the rival takeover bid.
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'Last night when you picked off that Jerry trying to outflank us - swing-lead-squeeze,' he said, demonstrating.
AMAGANSETT
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It was designed to deliver a frontal strike and to create a chance to outflank the enemy's strong points.
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The Conservative leader tells the paper that while he was "outflanked" by Clegg in the TV debate, voters will dismiss the Lib Dems as a serious contender once they learn more about the party's policies. says Labour is now "wooing" Clegg "in earnest" amid mouting speculation there will be a hung parlaiment.
The Guardian World News
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‘We're going to outflank the enemy and catch them by surprise,’ she told them.
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He was totally outflanked in the debate.
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Those who mock France for building forts that were supposedly "outflanked" should know the "impregnable" modern US fortifications at Manila, and Britain's Fortress Singapore, were both taken from the rear by the Imperial Japanese Army.
Eric Margolis: Four Myths About World War II
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Late in November 1950, they attacked the weaker South Korean units, drove them back, and partially outflanked the neighboring and suddenly vulnerable U.N. troops.
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Jim Webb's 2006 candidacy for U.S. Senate outflanked the candidacy of Harris Miller.
Peter Rousselot: Why Virginia Democrats Lost the State Senate
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But Germany later invaded by going around ( "outflank") the Maginot Line.
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But if you don't have the military forces to win, you've got to outflank them, with strategic defense.
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As each side tried to outflank the other, a ‘race to the sea’ developed and this meant that huge trench systems took shape from the Swiss border through all of northern France.
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We needn't attempt the impossible - we can outflank Bangazi Lodge this way!
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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Every time that the backwoodsmen tried to stitch her up, though, she would outflank them.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm also concerned that if Obama does NOT put a woman on the ticket, McCain may "outflank" the Democrats by running with a female VP candidate -- maybe Kay Hutchison or Jodi Rell.
Exit Polls: Obama Cut Deep Into Hillary's Core Constituencies
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True, Leroy is more of a small leopard than a domestic moggy, but surely these three moggies could outflank him and make him overextend his supply chain or something.
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We have all grown more familiar than we probably like to acknowledge with Israel using its channels to Capitol Hill and in America's pro-Israel community to "outflank" an American administration -- and virtually always to the right.
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His call to buy more shares and move away from residential property has been labelled an attempt to outflank political opponents on the right.
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The Tories found themselves outflanked by Labour on the issue of law and order.
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He was totally outflanked in the debate.
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Instead of confronting the enemy directly, Napoleon simply outflanked them.
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Static warfare prevented observation of anything beyond the front line by ground forces, which could not hope to outflank the enemy to observe unseen.
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Instead of confronting the enemy directly, Napoleon simply outflanked them.
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He has so far cleverly outwitted and outflanked this attempt to marginalize him on the political stage.
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The side on an offensive should try to envelop or to outflank the strong points and attack them simultaneously from the front, at the flanks and in the rear.
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After initial successes, Cunningham's offensive had been outflanked by Rommel and brought to a standstill.
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The promotion was an attempt to outflank its rival, which was winning over viewers by hiring younger, more attractive presenters.
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But finding his army outflanked by Cromwell, he moved south in August, making for the old royalist strongholds of Wales and the west midlands.
