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Example sentences for: counterattack

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The 100,000 Russian soldiers in the region have faced only light resistance so far from their 6,000 Chechen counterparts, but now Chechen commanders are threatening a counterattack.
The New York Times calls the 42-page counter-attack a "scathing rebuttal," the Washington Post opts for "blistering counterattack," and the Los Angeles Times calls it "acid-worded."
After the disaster at Caporetto, the planned Austro-German 1917 advance across the Veneto plain was held until the Italian counterattack of October–November 1918 permitted a triumphant entry into Trento and Trieste.
This counterattack has only helped Bush achieve the distance he sought in the first place.
The aircraft had witnessed the hijackers' efforts to defeat the passengers' counterattack.