counteroffensive

How To Use counteroffensive In A Sentence

• In the ensuing counteroffensive, four soldiers were killed and four mutineers were beaten to death after being captured.
• 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