"act" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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.
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