pincer movement
double envelopment

The contingent of Government forces approached them in a pincers movement.

Two groups in a pincers movement, and Tiny in the middle.

Richard Nixon has been associated with both factions of the world government pincers movement.

A pincers movement is more logical than a direct assault, don't you agree?

They'll do a sort of what they call 'pincers movement.'

Patton's men had taken it back in the pincers movement that brought them into Bloomington, six or eight miles north.

He had the high ground, granted, but a pincers movement could surround him if they had sufficient numbers to pull it off.

They're trying a pincers movement," Kolovzon went on, his voice rich with contempt, "which is good of its kind, I suppose.

And keep an eye toward Fenomat as well; it may be that Belal will try a pincers movement to catch us between.

This misplaced confidence denied us an opening pincers movement and shocked the awesomeness out of "rapid dominance."

Taking their time, they spread out along the dune ridge to cut off her flanks and catch her in a classic pincers movement.

Surprise: Restaurant Associates owns that one, too, conquering the town with something of an uptown-downtown pincers movement.

There was a chorus of shouts and footfalls pounded the earth as Marcel's men moved in from both sides in a pincers movement.

Forsythe sneered again, waiting for his two assistants to come in the window, to trap his prey in a pincers movement.

The Germans have to be kept against the Volga River until the gigantic pincers movement that will eventually defeat them can be mounted.

The Swarm launched an attack of approximately three thousand lancers to complete a pincers movement against Task Force 87.2's electronic perimeter.

The art crowd had descended in a pincers movement from uptown and downtown on the new Matthew Marks Gallery, which opened with a show by Ellsworth Kelly.

Yesterday, the anti-dog partisans cheered on the patrol divisions of trucks and horses as they swept across Riverside Park, trapping dog walkers in a ruthless pincers movement.

The noise came from both directions, men enveloping the CP in a hasty pincers movement, which they should have done before he had blown himself an exit at the back.

At Chancellorsville, Va., facing a vastly larger enemy, Jackson and Lee divided their forces and hit in a pincers movement that rolled up the whole Union line.

Now, Prime Minister Sovig, you and your ally, the second and first most populous nations of your world, are combining to destroy - a pincers movement, let us say?

Only the designated ones, understand this slow pincers movement from the coasts looks like a manoeuvre to draw our defence units away from home base to make things easy for the fifth column.

As these cases develop, helped by strong performances by little-seen actors like Jason Butler Harner, they form a relentless pincers movement whose prongs move forward with an awful fatalism.

Most of its thirty-five divisions - all that there had been time to mobilize - had been either shattered or caught in a vast pincers movement that closed in around Warsaw.

The British advance in the Somme region continued until the Armistice, constituting the northern arm of Foch's great pincers movement on the Germans' vital lateral rail communications system.

At the same time orders were given to carry out the general plan for double envelopment next day, August 26.

Pleasonton's attack plan called for a double envelopment of the enemy.

Such a double envelopment will hem his troops in, making it almost impossible for them to change formation.

This battle also demonstrates the danger of implementing the double envelopment tactic.

At 15:00, they engaged the surprised Chinese, conducting a double envelopment supported by continued artillery fire.

His plan was to attack the British at night with four columns from different directions with the goal of creating a double envelopment.

The tactic resulted in a double envelopment.

It is known from Rehnskiöld's personal journals that he had intended a double envelopment from the beginning.

There, Alexander manoeuvered to the right to prevent a double envelopment from the Persian army.

In this way, the Union force would execute a double envelopment of the outnumbered Confederates.

This would lead to the double envelopment of most of the Israeli forces in the Golan.

Some modern commentators have suggested this was a deliberate ploy to encourage a double envelopment of the Persian centre.

He intended to pull the celebrated "Double Envelopment" maneuver.

However, this was an integral part of the double envelopment tactic that Hasdrubal was trying to implement.

Longstreet attempted a double envelopment: attacks timed to strike both Union flanks simultaneously.

Napoleon led the French on a brilliant offensive involving a massive double envelopment of the Spanish lines.

Pleasonton anticipated that the Southern cavalry would be caught in a double envelopment, surprised, outnumbered, and beaten.

Hooker's second plan was to launch both his cavalry and infantry simultaneously in a bold double envelopment of Lee's army.

Schlieffen did not have enough divisions for a double envelopment of France a la Cannae.

Suchet planned a double envelopment, with the greater part of his forces massed inland to cut behind Blake's left flank.

The Soviets planned Operation Uranus as a double envelopment.

The pincer movement, or double envelopment, is a tactic in which forces attack both flanks (sides) of an enemy formation at the same time.

Achillas, you suffered the double envelopment, being hit on your flank as you engaged Petar.

This double envelopment came as a complete surprise to the American forces as a result of the intelligence failure at First Army level.

The Greek troops were to attack the Carthaginain camp simultaneously from both sides and achieve a double envelopment before their center would get involved.