Beachhead in a sentence

Meanwhile the French Mandate hived off Lebanon from Syria to create a strategic beachhead and imposed new boundaries over the whole territory in the early 1920s, before an Arab rebellion which they also ruthlessly suppressed.

That’s why Foxglove (with openDemocracy) brought multiple legal cases seeking to shed light on this shadowy spy-tech firm’s beachhead in the NHS since their very first £1 no-bid pandemic contract.

Yet the Allies pulled off the impossible by surprising the Germans, securing a beachhead, supplying that toehold in western Europe and then expanding the pocket into a vast 1,000-mile front that in less than a year shattered Hitler’s defenses.

Mankind has discovered a portal to another, very hostile, world, and the American military has established a small beachhead on that world.

Pfc. Warren Capers was recommended for a Silver Star when he and other members of his medical detachment set up a dressing station, aiding over 300 soldiers on a beachhead on D-Day.

Because of continued German artillery fire and too few troops to mount a westward attack along the seawall’s esplanade, the beachhead remained stationary for the night as additional British reinforcements arrived.

For now, I imagine my brothers’ lungs, each of their two billowy sacs rich in oxygenated blood fighting to make its way into the spongy alveoli where the virus has established a beachhead of phlegm and fluid that must be expunged.

Training will continue over the next two days, with Marines and soldiers simulating a secured beachhead.

After a securing the beachhead MV-22s could lead the way, leapfrogging from one landing zone to another, the enemy not knowing if it intends to land five or five hundred miles away.

As well as that thwarted beachhead landing, the Home Office said that the Border Force intercepted two vessels early in the morning, one carrying 11 people and the other with 12.

Given the several hundred outstanding allegations against the now vulnerable man, this is just the first legal beachhead in a legal storm that could take the rest of Zuma's life to unravel.

Lack of opposition was especially fortunate since task force was in no shape for sharply contested beachhead.

Lightning crackled across the sky and rain poured as my brave little pickup leaped and swerved its way from the island’s small navigable beachhead to the Horizon Festival proper.

After the invasion (on June 6, 1944) the plan was to delay movement of German reserves to the Normandy beachhead and prevent a potentially disastrous counter-attack.

After the real invasion had landed the story would change, suggesting to the Germans that several assault divisions remained in England ready to conduct a cross-channel attack once the Normandy beachhead had drawn German defences away from Calais.

As a result, Giant I was cancelled and the 504th PIR instead dropped into the beachhead on the night of September 13 using transponding radar beacons as a guide.

Barris, p. 23 Eisenhower and General Bernard Montgomery hoped to have eight infantry divisions and fourteen tank regiments in the Normandy beachhead by nightfall on D-Day.

By dawn the next day, they had established a secure beachhead from which to conduct offensive operations.

Consequently the Turks were never able to create a beachhead and to occupy the island. citation The Siege of Corfu (1537) was the first great siege by the Ottomans.

Early novels in this renaissance were Jack Williamson 's novel Beachhead and Ben Bova 's novel Mars (both 1992), which envisioned large-scale expeditions to Mars according to the thinking of the 1990s.