| Deco, Figo and Ronaldo kept being ushered down blind alleys where ambushes awaited. |
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| The system of defense positions is built on a combination of strongholds, ambushes, fire pockets, and armor group positions. |
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| Cities provide ample hiding places for the defender, and such battles often become an endless succession of ambushes for the attacker. |
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| Surprise attacks, ambushes and terrorist attacks are matched by military operations and policing. |
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| Insurgents often set up active ambushes to kill the greatest possible number of personnel. |
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| Mines and constant ambushes depleted the government forces, which had quadrupled in size to 60,000 through heavy conscription. |
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| And even then, we would continue to bleed slowly from IED attacks and ambushes on a regular basis. |
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| As he is well aware, ambushes most always occurred from both sides of a river or canal simultaneously. |
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| They do not seek a decisive battle, and they prefer to engage in raids, skirmishes, and ambushes. |
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| But all aerial bombardments, offensive raids, ambushes and assassinations are to come to a halt, he said. |
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| Tribal forces specialize in raids, skirmishes, and ambushes where the assault rifle, machinegun, mortar, and mine are basic weapons. |
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| Hit-and-run attacks, terrorist acts, raids and ambushes were cleverly combined with high-profile ideological activities. |
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| Combat helicopters should act from ambushes by delivering strikes at tanks and other armored objects. |
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| They can also combine with the scout platoon to engage enemy targets for hasty attacks and ambushes. |
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| They are very good at ambushes and maneuvering when on the offensive, and defend their bunkers and spider holes tenaciously. |
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| In the gorge itself, small groups are deployed that use ambushes combined with effective fire delivery. |
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| This kind of operation is beyond the ambushes, sniping and grenade and bomb attacks we have been seeing, he says. |
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| Trucks bringing in supplies have to run the gauntlet of Isis checkpoints and ambushes. |
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| There are too many opportunities for friendly fire, for civilian casualties, for insurgent ambushes. |
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| Banditry remains another serious problem, and humanitarian and commercial vehicles are subjected to frequent ambushes and attacks. |
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| Baghdad and other cities are wracked by small arms and remote bomb ambushes and by mortar and rocket attacks, and are closed to commercial air traffic. |
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| And the duels, ambushes, and firefights were more than personal vendettas. |
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| However, the rapid firing assault rifle proved most useful in ambushes. |
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| They and Cao had been having their units report fictitious night patrols and ambushes to fob off the Americans. |
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| They may conduct reconnaissance by visual observation, by probing, by making ambushes, and by raiding tactical command posts, dumps, and other targets. |
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| Once trainees understand mountainous terrain and its effects on combat, the next step is to conduct small exercises involving patrolling, raids, and ambushes. |
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| Successes by these Celtic troops against the Romans were usually gained in surprise attacks, in ambushes, and when overwhelming detached units by sheer numbers. |
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| They're resorting to ambushes from the villages now, and that is a different kind of warfare. |
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| Without the hormonal surge that mothers endure, you experience a love that sneaks up and ambushes you when you're not looking. |
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| They had been under heavy mortar and machine gun fire and had fallen into rebel ambushes twice along the way, he said. |
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| Furthermore, attacks against humanitarian workers and agencies are reported to be on the increase, including carjacking and convoy ambushes. |
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| When this capacity is unavailable, troops are at greater risk of ambushes, land mines and improvised explosive devices. |
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| Plus you can climb onto and around almost every piece of architecture to set-up your ambushes. |
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| All these weapons were especially useful for battles on open terrain, though they were probably employed for ambushes as well. |
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| Last year, while traveling down this road there were constant ambushes and attacks within view of the police checkpoint. |
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| Most ambushes take place when farmers go to the marketplace to sell their produce or return from the market with money in hand. |
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| There are skirmishes, ambushes carried out by militias hostile to the national unity government, but the violence remains localized. |
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| Some of us cannot go to school for fear we will be abducted or killed by mines or ambushes. |
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| Part of their way of doing that is through terror, violence, ambushes, road-side bombings. |
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| After many casualties in the army due to the terrain and the barbarians' ambushes, Severus went himself to the field. |
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| The British had placed ambushes or artillery concentrations on the routes the Japanese were to use. |
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| Rollicking, ephemeral cycles of passionplay across the stage, evoked by spiralling bodies, dissolving lovers, unexpected ambushes, and collapsing waves and garlands of linked dancers. |
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| Facing social pressures which are going to surface inevitably, they will quickly realize that the black gold coming up from the Kazakh subsoil is not only a fairy tale but a potentially dangerous path with hidden ambushes. |
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| They were exclusively carried out in self-defence against the PKK terrorists, who are known to be based there, and carrying out hit-and-run attacks and ambushes from there. |
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| Tribal combat usually involved skirmishes and ambushes rather than pitched battles, but over time the fighting could produce mortality rates as high as 50 percent. |
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| Despite two years of talks, and agreements on three of the five negotiating points, no ceasefire has been declared and combat between the two forces, ambushes and guerrilla attacks are frequent. |
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| The ambushes on public transport in the banlieues are a new phenomenon. |
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| Equally, if as we believe, the war described by Pierre Clastres comes to the suburbs, the number of ambushes on police officers and emergency services will rise, and will become more violent. |
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| The Wing's helicopters transport troops and cargo, thus reducing the requirement for ground convoys that expose troops to ambushes, land mines and improvised explosive devices. |
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| New forms of criminality such as armed robberies of restaurants and private residences as well as criminal ambushes have begun to emerge all over the country. |
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| Mature wolves can set up ambushes or drive prey toward other wolves. |
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| During the reporting period, persistent attacks were conducted against humanitarian workers and UNAMID staff, including abductions of international aid workers and armed ambushes against peacekeepers. |
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| British forces were bogged down by assault rifle, mortar, machine gun, artillery fire, sniper fire, and ambushes. |
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| The trio proceeded upriver carefully, warily watched by native Mandinka canoes, but this time no hostilities or ambushes emerged. |
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| Cossacks were considered excellent for scouting and reconnaissance duties, as well as undertaking ambushes. |
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| Their reputation having preceded them, they had to fight their way down the Amur through numerous ambushes. |
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| A LIVERPOOL soldier who spent 11 months dodging bullets and escaping ambushes in Iraq has been awarded the Bronze Star for his courage under fire. |
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| As the majority of the Ethiopian population lived in rural towns, Italy faced continued resistance and ambushes in urban centers throughout its occupation. |
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| This would have prevented Boudica from bringing considerable forces to bear on the Roman position, and the open plain in front made ambushes impossible. |
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| But the end of the poppy season has seen fresh evidence of boobytrap bomb laying, sniper activity and ambushes that have already killed one Fusilier. |
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| Ambushes were set either on one side of the road, or both when the road was elevated, allowing the enemy to engage coalition forces without firing into each other. |
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