"divert" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The governors expressed concern that diverting troops to the border would exhaust Guard members already drained by war deployments.
- San Martín also refused Pueyrredón's request to divert troops from the independentist conflict toward the defense of the national government.
- Birdwood held that only an attack on a key position like Lone Pine would cause the Turks to divert troops from opposing the main effort.
- As a result, the British had to divert troops to Iran rather than Ottoman Iraq.
- Then they'll have to divert enough troops to keep us penned up in here.
- However, the fierceness of the platoon's defence pressured Rommel into diverting troops from his main attack.
- He also wanted to relieve pressure on the army of Albert S. Johnston and divert troops away from Johnston's command.
- The blockade also served to divert communist troops from the front line.
- He also ordered Wang Yuankui to divert troops toward Taiyuan as well.
- Planning for a limited naval demonstration in the Dardanelles subsequently began, with the aim of diverting troops from that theatre.
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