Encirclement in a sentence

On the other hand, while Macron was speaking after his state visit to China, the French frigate Prairial was steaming through the Taiwan Straits while the Chinese Communist Party was flexing its muscles with an encirclement exercise of the island.

Avdiivka is now split in two, Russian has cut nearly all resupply roads into the town and is just a few hundred kilometers from full encirclement.

There is a strong encirclement of the areas around Mr. Dallewal.

The Ukrainian command is no longer able to supply some of its units near Kursk, and Ukrainian fighters can only break through the encirclement in small groups at night.

Beijing has bristled at its perceived encirclement by the U.S., its allies and partner nations in recent weeks.

The fear of Chinese encirclement predominates Indian grand strategy given the legacy of territorial disputes and awareness of the widening gulf of military and economic power vis-a-vis its northern neighbour.

Iran’s threat perception originates from its sense of encirclement, compelling it to pursue a defensive policy.

The North wants a peace treaty to end the technically still-active Korean War and drive all U.S. troops from the Korean Peninsula, removing what it says is a hostile encirclement of its territory by Washington and Seoul.

Adolf Hitler ordered that the army stay in Stalingrad and make no attempt to break out; instead, attempts were made to supply the army by air and to break the encirclement from the outside.

At dawn on November 4, a strong German counter-attack by tanks of the 116th Panzer Division and a chance encirclement by troops from the 89th Infantry Division rapidly expelled the 3rd Battalion from Schmidt, and they were unable to counter-attack.

Barnouin and Yu 58 After passing through three of the four blockhouse fortifications needed to escape Chiang's encirclement, the Red Army was finally intercepted by regular Nationalist troops, and suffered heavy casualties.

Bismarck therefore negotiated the secret Reinsurance Treaty of 1887 with Russia, in order to prevent Franco-Russian encirclement of Germany.

By 24 October, the Israelis had improved their positions considerably and completed their encirclement of the Third Army and the city of Suez.

By October 24, the Israelis had improved their positions considerably and completed their encirclement of Egypt's Third Army and the city of Suez.

Egypt's trapped Third Army Kissinger found out about the Third Army's encirclement shortly thereafter.

Encirclement tactics are not unique in warfare, and historians note that attempts to surround an enemy were not unknown even in the ritualised battles.

Facing the danger of encirclement, Constantine realized that his army could no longer continue hostilities, agreed to Eleftherios Venizelos ' proposal and accepted the Bulgarian request for armistice as this had been communicated through Romania.

Hattendorf: Alliance, Encirclement, and Attrition, 16. William III's instructions to Marlborough at The Hague, 26 February 1701.

Herzog, Arab–Israeli Wars, p. 283. Shazly himself described the Third Army's plight as "desperate" and classified its encirclement as a "catastrophe that was too big to hide".

His attempts to break through the encirclement and free Count Louis are futile.