Examples of 'counter-offensive' in a sentence

Meaning of "counter-offensive"

A counter-offensive is a military action used to attack or neutralize an enemy's offensive
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  • An attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.
  • Being or relating to an attack in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.

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But a worldwide counter-offensive is now underway.
This last measure triggered a counter-offensive.
Thereafter the counter-offensive could be launched.
Your information about the counter-offensive.
For a counter-offensive of the working class.
As the groundswell of a counter-offensive in all areas.
The counter-offensive did not take long to come together.
Opponents to organize a counter-offensive in order to expose.
Above all it was a matter of organising the counter-offensive.
I wonder when the counter-offensive will begin.
The counter-offensive of the bolsonaristes was not long in coming.
This is sometimes called counter-offensive frogmen.
The counter-offensive resulted in fresh setbacks for the attackers.
We also need to prepare our counter-offensive.
Carried out a counter-offensive the next day.

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Headquarters have been clamouring for news of the counter-offensive.
This lightning counter-offensive has left observers skeptical.
Some feared that they were massing for a counter-offensive.
And this is a massive counter-offensive to try and get it back.
The upsurge in militancy soon provoked an employer counter-offensive.
A vicious counter-offensive from the enemy will come on that day.
It is also aimed at preparing a counter-offensive by the military.
Cabal mounts counter-offensive but with limited impact as arrests continue.
The armed forces and police launch a counter-offensive.
The counter-offensive against him will be more forceful than ever.
The government launched a counter-offensive ten days ago.
Anyone at this point who escaped destruction is in no condition to mount a counter-offensive.
The counter-offensive of the ruling class to sabotage and corrupt the movement.
In this regard, the limited mission of the counter-offensive was fully successful.
This counter-offensive of the bourgeoisie broke the impetus of the first international wave of struggles.
Officers and troops are trained in defense tactics and counter-offensive operations.
The platform is preparing its counter-offensive with the development of ever more programs.
The first is the territorial expansionist campaign, normally begun as a counter-offensive.
The Japanese launched a counter-offensive of their own.
He fleshed it out with reading keys and concrete proposals for a counter-offensive.
The viceroy launched a counter-offensive over Ayacucho.
And naturally a few months later he was in the forefront of the antifrancoist counter-offensive.
Jihadist counter-offensive in southern Aleppo ends in disaster.
However, the conditions exist for a powerful counter-offensive by the autoworkers.
Romanian forces captured thousands of prisoners and significant quantities of material during this counter-offensive.
The Western counter-offensive has by and large failed.
The request was apparently related to plans for a counter-offensive against the rebels.
If this counter-offensive were hostile to Rwanda, we would react directly or indirectly.
The first is the foreign war, normally begun as a counter-offensive or defense of an ally.
A German counter-offensive succeeded in recapturing most of the lost ground.
The unit was also involved in the following government counter-offensive in the area.
Army counter-offensive and rebel offensive on Ramouseh and artillery school.
China 's superiority and the completion of her preparations for the counter-offensive.
The Allies launched a counter-offensive two days before the new year.
Time can often be gained as effectively and less expensively, by bold counter-offensive.

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