The Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel swiftly crushed the military forces of Syria, Egypt and Jordan, and the commando raid at Entebbe in 1976 that rescued hijacked hostages are still studied at military academies today.

Spock was naked, enclosed in some transparent cocoon of thick stuff that seemed to be shrinking rapidly around every part of his body, swiftly crushing in throat and Adam's apple, threatening ribs and internal organs.

He was one of authors of the idea to use force to "restore constitutional order" in the breakaway republic of Chechnya and publicly promised to swiftly crush the Chechen separatist forces "in a couple of hours with a single airborne regiment."

The purpose of the cavalry would have been to swiftly crush any organized resistance out in the open hoping to stop the Order before they reached the city, and then to run down anyone who tried to escape the city after the troops were sent in.

On the outbreak of hostilities with Russia, he intended to open an immediate offensive with the object of swiftly crushing her hastily mobilized armies.

The policeman realised only too well what it was that was swiftly crushing his bones and throttling the life out of him.

She felt a wrenching tug of attraction and swiftly crushed it.

Islam made a last-ditch stand, when Shaykh Said Sursi, head of the Naqshbandi Sufi order, led a rebellion, which Atatiirk crushed swiftly and efficiently in two months.

Charged with suppressing the revolt, Ōkubo swiftly crushed Etō, who had appealed unsuccessfully to Saigō for help.

Mr. Lebed has been trying to end the fighting, which resumed earlier this month when rebels recaptured Grozny, Chechnya's capital, swiftly crushing Russian defenders.