The extent of Allied quantitative and qualitative superiority by this point in the war was demonstrated during Battle of the Philippine Sea, a lopsided Allied victory where Japanese fliers were downed in such numbers and with such ease that American fighter pilots likened it to a great turkey shoot.

After the Partisans managed to endure and avoid these intense Axis attacks between January and June 1943, and the extent of Chetnik collaboration became evident, Allied leaders switched their support from Draža Mihailović to Tito.

International broadcasting, in a limited extent, began during World War I, when Central Powers and Allied stations broadcast press communiqués using Morse code.

During his journeys across Germany he was shocked at the extent of destruction, especially that caused by Allied bombing.

The motive was twofold: both an unwillingness to follow the Geneva convention now that the threat of German reprisals against Allied POWs was gone, and also they were " to an extent unable to meet the high standards of the Geneva code " for the large number of captured Germans.

Keren was decisive in terms of the strategic objectives of the Allied forces ( to the extent that when Wavell was created an earl he chose as his second title the viscounty of Keren and of Winchester ).

In Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Dynarski plays a major supporting role as Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, appearing throughout much of the game's Soviet campaign and to a lesser extent, the Allied campaign, too.

By that time the German offensive in France had progressed to such an extent that the British could no longer afford any commitment in Norway, and the 25, 000 Allied troops were evacuated from Narvik merely 10 days after their victory.

The Treaty of Versailles also specified the de-militarization of the entire area to provide a buffer between Germany on one side and France, Belgium and Luxembourg ( and to a lesser extent, the Netherlands ) on the other side, which meant that no German forces were allowed there after the Allied forces had withdrawn.

This occurred in part because the Allied surge across France in 1944 was slowed down by logistical difficulties as the Allies reached the easternmost extent of France, but the primary reason for the stout German defenses of these regions is that Alsace ( German: Elsaß ) and Lorraine ( German: Lothringen ) were claimed as part of Germany and would be defended as strongly as any other German soil.

The Colonel expresses concern that escaped Allied prisoners may attempt to seek refuge in the Vatican, and requests permission to paint a white line across St. Peter's Square in order to mark the extent of Vatican sovereignty.

This was viewed with concern by high commanders, to such extent that the Allied air commander in the South West Pacific, Major General George Kenney, considered sending the wing to the New Guinea campaign, and returning U. S. Fifth Air Force fighter units to Darwin.

As this amounted mostly to cinema houses, the first Soviet films consisted of recycled films of the Russian Empire and its imports, to the extent that these were not determined to be offensive to the new Soviet ideology.

In 1504, finding it impossible to succeed with the Doge of Venice by remonstrance, he brought about a union of the conflicting interests of France and the Holy Roman Empire, and sacrificed temporarily to some extent the independence of Italy to conclude with them an offensive and defensive alliance against Venice.

Matters of dispute by the participants and writers and historians since the war have included the wisdom of pursuing an offensive strategy in the wake of the failed Nivelle Offensive, rather than waiting for the arrrival of the American armies in France, the choice to attack in Flanders over areas further south or the Italian front, the climate and weather in Flanders, Haig's selection of General Hubert Gough and the Fifth Army to conduct the offensive, debates over the nature of the opening attack between advocates of shallow and deeper objectives, the passage of time between the Battle of Messines and the opening attack of the Battles of Ypres, the extent to which the internal troubles of the French armies motivated British persistence in the offensive, the effect of mud on operations and the decision to continue the offensive in October, once the weather had broken and the human cost of the campaign on the soldiers of the German and British armies.

However, desertion had become a systemic problem in France, and the surprise German offensive through the Ardennes began on 16 December with severe U. S. casualties, pocketing several battalions and straining the morale of the infantry to the greatest extent yet seen during the war.

This experience did not lessen the extent to which the Canadian Corps employed trench raiding with raids being conducted nightly between 20 March and the opening of the offensive on 9 April, resulting in approximately 1, 400 additional Canadian casualties.

The United States contended that the Bay Islands were not the " dependencies " of Belize, which were the small neighboring islands mentioned in the same treaties, and nothing else ; that the excepted " settlement " was the British-Honduras of definite extent and narrow purpose recognized in British treaties with Spain ; that the United States had not confirmed by recognition the large, indefinite and offensive claims whose dangers the treaty was primarily designed to lessen ; and that, as to the Mosquito Coast, the treaty was retrospective, and mutual in the rigor of its requirements.

The offensive, therefore was aimed at influencing the South Vietnamese public, not that of the U. S. There is conflicting evidence as to whether, or to what extent, the offensive was intended to influence either the March primaries or the November presidential election in the U. S.

" General Wheeler reported that the offensive had brought counterinsurgency programs to a halt and " that to a large extent, the V. C.

This approach also allowed the French to maintain an offensive long enough that these vast armies might commandeer war material from territory taken from their enemies and, to a certain extent, " live off the fat of the land ".

For example, it may be deemed offensive for a white person to make a joke about Asians, whereas it would be more acceptable for an Asian to make a similar joke about their own culture, or an Asian make a joke about white people can be variously funny or offending to some extent.

To a large extent this renewed offensive was made possible by turncoats from the Muromachi regime.

In China and reportedly to some extent in India, winking may be seen as an offensive gesture.

With the immediate objective of capturing Seoul, the offensive commenced on 22 April on two broad fronts: the main thrust across the Imjin River in the western sector held by the US I Corps involving 337, 000 troops driving towards Seoul, and the secondary effort involving 149, 000 troops attacking further east across the Soyang River in the central and eastern sectors, falling primarily on the US IX Corps, and to a lesser extent on the US X Corps sector.

As the Japanese, having reached the extent of their supply lines, began to withdraw from Ioribaiwa, the Australians went on the offensive, pursuing them back north towards Buna.

For this purpose, they overdubbed dialogue deemed offensive, which was ( and remains, to an extent ) common practice.

The extent of these actions would include assisting in training but also to conduct ' offensive combat operations '.

However, to minimize the extent of the movement ignores the facts that at least two Roman emperors, Constantius II and Valens, became Arians, as did prominent Gothic, Vandal and Lombard warlords both before and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

The ancient Assyrians also used the Sumerian language in their literature and liturgy, although to a more limited extent in the Middle-and Neo-Assyrian periods, when Akkadian became the main literary language.

This is mainly due to the limited extent of burrowing activity ; as such bioturbation became more prevalent throughout the Cambrian, environments capable of preserving organisms ' soft parts became much rarer.

The building activity reached to such an extent that some cities actually became city temples.

The same year saw the release of " Kung Fu Fighting ", performed by Carl Douglas and produced by Biddu, which reached # 1 in both the U. K. and U. S., and became the best-selling single of the year and one of the best-selling singles of all time with eleven million records sold worldwide, helping to popularize disco music to a great extent.

In notes to accompany his biographical novel A Man of Parts David Lodge describes how Wells came to regret his attitudes to the Jews as he became more aware of the extent of the Nazi atrocities.

In the 1950s, hi-fi became a generic term, to some extent displacing phonograph and record player.

The transfer of debt, which was " not permissible under Roman law but became widely practiced in medieval Europe, especially in commercial transactions ", was due to the large extent of the " trade conducted by the Italian cities with the Muslim world in the Middle Ages ".

Use of the spinning wheel and hand loom restricted the production capacity of the industry, but incremental advances increased productivity to the extent that manufactured cotton goods became the dominant British export by the early decades of the 19th century.

The symbolism soon became entrenched to the extent that gardens displayed their owners ' allegiances, and pink or green paintwork also showed political sympathies.

He thus became to some extent the protector of the arts as well as their regulator.

The extent to which the British exerted direct control over Basutoland waxed and waned until Basutoland's independence in 1966, when it became the Kingdom of Lesotho.

Many 1980s 8-bit home computers feature gutterboxing display mode, because the TV screens normally used as monitors at that time tended to distort the image near the border of the screen, to such an extent that text displayed in that area became illegible.

Thus, favoring M to some extent became identified as alignment with InterSystems.

During that time, his roommates became aggravated with Atta, who seldom cleaned, and kept to himself to the extent that he would walk in and out of a room without acknowledging others.

The number of adherents to Nichirens teachings grew steadily during the 14th and 15th century to the extent that whole communities became followers of Nichiren's teachings.

Culture and race became considered intertwined and dependent upon each other, sometimes even to the extent of including nationality or language to the set of definition.

The Ultramontanist movement after Italian Unification and the abrupt ( and unofficial ) end of the First Vatican Council in 1870 ( due to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War ), and the opposing Conciliarism, became obsolete to a large extent.

To some extent aid sent by Saudi Arabia, France and by the USA relieved the situation in Morocco, but matters gradually became unsustainable for all parties involved.

However, Suskin states in Show Tunes that " As the writing progressed and the extent of Bernstein's lyric contributions became less, the composer agreed to rescind his credit ... Contrary to rumor, Sondheim did not write music for the show ; his only contribution came on " Something's Coming ", where he developed the main strain of the chorus from music Bernstein wrote for the verse.

In its early period, the Roman province of Thrace was of this extent, but after the administrative reforms of the late 3rd century, Thracia's much reduced territory became the six small provinces which constituted the Diocese of Thrace.

As Tortola, and to a lesser extent Virgin Gorda, came to be settled by plantation owners, slave labour became economically essential, and there was an exponential growth in the slave population during the 18th century.

At first the output was insignificant, but gradually the magnitude of the operations was enlarged until the competition became effective, and steel traders generally became aware that the firm of Henry Bessemer & Co. was underselling them to the extent of UK £ 10 -£ 15 a ton.