| The encirclement of the world by telegraph by the early 1870s represented yet another revolution in communications. |
| Sixteen exhausted Soviet divisions were holding units of the 2nd and 3rd German panzer groups outside the encirclement ring. |
| Military encirclement and the bombing of markets and waterworks provokes hunger, thirst, and slow death for millions. |
| But he proved equal to the task of avoiding encirclement and destruction, and in February 1943 he was promoted field marshal as a reward for his generalship. |
| The counterattack scored some stunning successes at first, including the encirclement of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne. |
| The latest outrage was the encirclement of the city, cutting it off and isolating it from its environment through barricades. |
