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on the offensive

ADJECTIVE
  1. actively attacking

How To Use on the offensive In A Sentence

  • Edwards reframes the question right away, goes on the offensive, and talks about people.
  • (voice-over): Not lost here is that Barack Obama was the first campaign to go on the offensive, sharpening his rhetoric, what they call contrasting himself with Senator Clinton, before she started fighting back. CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2007
  • Republicans went on the offensive over soaring gasoline prices.
  • However, Lisa comes right back on the offensive and warns her not to say a thing.
  • The West African forces went on the offensive in response to attacks on them.
  • In recent months, there has been speculation that the two groups have established ties and that one goes on the offensive when the other negotiates, essentially to rest and rearm.
  • Some say Cheney 'feeling the heat' over potential probes/Kentucky election officials nabbed in touch-screen vote scam yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Some say Cheney \'feeling the heat\' over potential probes/Kentucky election officials nabbed in touch-screen vote scam '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Several observers suspect that Cheney is nervous about calls for investigations into the Bush administration and is going on the offensive in his latest attacks on President Obama. Some say Cheney 'feeling the heat' over potential probes / Kentucky election officials nabbed in touch-screen vote scam
  • It is worth remembering that, despite a lamentable lack of preparation and a reckless reliance on the offensive, France survived the opening months of the war with an impressive degree of unity.
  • And the intel we got, which Hayden and Mukasky said is 50% of the intel we have to fight these deadly radical Muslims, allowed and still allows us to keep on the offensive against them, attriting their numbers and breaking up more deadly assaults on our citizens and troops. Axelrod: Obama "thought very long and hard about" about opening up the CIA interrogation memos.
  • Management has tried to go on the offensive, suspending workers for refusing to carry out duties not in their job description and threatening to derecognise the union.
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