For this defensive attitude, Lynch was bitterly criticised by some other republicans, who felt that he should be acting offensively to bring the war to a quick end.

While the player holds the disc they act offensively by trying to throw it into the goal zone of the opponent.

If you hope to give yourself any kind of chance of actually winning a war, you simply have to take some chances in order to act offensively.

Cialdini, however, did not act offensively for the entire first part of the war, conducting only several shows and even failing to besiege the Austrian fortress of Borgoforte, south to the Po.

The Governor's instruction made it clear Wadsworth was "at liberty to act offensively as well as defensively" according to the circumstances along the river.

So far, Spartacus had exhibited no means of acting offensively or even of knowing how to if it could.

Washington was ordered to "act defensively or offensively" as he thought best.

On the morning of 14 June Montgomery abandoned the idea of a pincer attack on Caen, as he lacked "sufficient strength to act offensively on both flanks".

During routine exercise he often acted offensively to Tandy, Morres and Corbet, or they to him.

Their task was to act offensively against the hostile Native Americans, but they were largely ineffective.