surgical strike

Everyone knows what the only important surgical strike would be in this war.

This usually requires what is often called a surgical strike.

Austin knew there was no such thing as a surgical strike.

A surgical strike to show them we mean business.

My recommendation will be a surgical strike against those weapon sites.

It also comes at a time when the public seems unlikely to settle for the surgical strikes of the past.

So it's a little early to be talking about "surgical strikes," assuming there is any such thing.

For these men, this was not a clean war of smart bombs and surgical strikes.

Katz had seen no recourse but for a surgical strike by his team.

So this would be like what the army guys call a surgical strike: invade, pull the job, clear out.

"This bill is not a surgical strike," she said.

"But it is very difficult to do a 'surgical strike' here and just hit the Americans."

"Civilians," she said to nobody in particular, "call this sort of thing a surgical strike.

This is like the surgical strike in Iraq.

He was not unaware that these surgical strikes had a purpose beyond testing his flying ability.

He should have made a quick surgical strike, gone the interim route until the permanent replacement was found.

Instead, he chose to make a surgical strike.

Captain Richter began to order "surgical strikes" upon key enemy targets.

In other interviews, he has said that he would support a "surgical strike" to remove the military leaders.

"Laissez-faire just wasn't working and we saw the need for a surgical strike.

But assassination attempts and surgical strikes aren't the answer.

For years Americans of bellicose disposition have favored the "surgical strike" in cases like this.

The surgical strike is the seductive dream of people with high-tech weapons at their disposal.

Better, probably, since I'm trained in, shall we say, surgical strikes?"

If we have any chance of cleaning this up and getting those boys home, it's with a deliberate surgical strike."