Example sentences of "launch a [adj] offensive " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 29 , Reuter reported that UNITA had ordered its forces to drive government troops out of the area , while denying that it was launching a general offensive . |
| 2 | He criticised them for being ‘ too optimistic as to what is and what is not possible to us ’ , and also for under-estimating the enemy 's ability to launch a major offensive . |
| 3 | The plan was to change vehicles on the outskirts of Habane then continue on to Kondese where hundreds of men , mostly ex-Security policemen loyal to Ngune , were waiting to launch a crushing offensive against Jamel Mobuto 's inept , and disorganized , government troops , many of whom had only joined up when the new regime was instated . |
| 4 | In a further message on Oct. 30. they threatened to kill the hostages if the government launched a new offensive against the cartel . |
| 5 | Talks between Bangladesh and Myanma during January and February had yielded few results and so in March the Bangladesh government launched a diplomatic offensive in an attempt at spurring the international community into preventing a major tragedy occurring . |
| 6 | Soon afterwards the FMLN launched a major offensive in San Salvador on Nov. 11 [ ibid . ] . |
| 7 | The FMLN launched a major offensive on July 8 and took control of several towns in the northern province of Chalatenango before announcing a three-day truce in San Salvador to coincide with a Central American summit [ see p. 38336 ] . |
| 8 | Not far away was Sumar , west of Bakhtaran , where Iran launched a major offensive called Karbala No 5 in January 1987 . |
| 9 | Campaigners launched a direct offensive against contemporary medical theories which talked of the inevitability of the male sexual urge , arguing that they failed to take proper account of Darwinist insights . |
| 10 | When the veteran Lambert moved to Fulham in October 1933 Chapman launched a fresh offensive to sign Jimmy Dunne from Sheffield United . |
| 11 | On May 16 , as the government denounced the postponement as an attempt by rebel groups to " buy time to intensify the war " , the EPRDF launched a fresh offensive against the Ethiopian army in southern Wollo and northern Shoa regions , north-east of Addis Ababa . |
| 12 | The Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces ( FARC ) and the National Liberation Army ( ELN ) guerrillas , acting in consort as the Simón Bolívar National Guerrilla Co-ordinating Board ( CNGSB ) , on the eve of the inauguration of the new constitution launched a fresh offensive which severed links between the capital , Bogotá , and the densely populated Caribbean coast and disrupted electricity supplies throughout the country . |
| 13 | The LNA launched a dual offensive , attacking both the medical profession and the double-standard on which the acts were premised : ‘ the false idea that there is one code of morality for men and another for women … which has more or less coloured and shaped the whole of our social life . ’ |
| 14 | However the Open Spaces Society , though happy with the decision , have launched a major offensive on the MoD . |
| 15 | Renamo insisted on Kenyan mediation and claimed that the Frelimo government had launched a major offensive against rebel-controlled zones . |
| 16 | In January the government had launched a major offensive aimed at capturing the Karen headquarters at Manerplaw on the eastern border with Thailand [ see pp. 38725 ; 38767 ; 38815 ] . |
| 17 | These developments took place against a background of continuing clashes between government forces and UNITA , with a number of reports suggesting that the government had launched a major offensive . |
| 18 | With communications seriously disrupted , reports from parts of the country were sketchy , but it appeared that UNITA had launched a new offensive in response to its electoral defeat . |