The tactical meaning of blitzkrieg involves a coordinated military effort by tanks, mobilized infantry, artillery and aircraft, to create an overwhelming local superiority in combat power, to overwhelm an enemy and break through its lines.

Once again, 90th Light failed to make progress so Rommel called the Afrika Korps to abandon its planned sweep southward and instead join the effort to break through to the coast road by attacking east toward Ruweisat Ridge.

When war finally did break out, the war effort was led by the War Hawks in Congress under Clay at least as much as it was by Madison ; this accorded with the president's preference for checks and balances.

Hatching is an exhausting effort for the neonates, who break out of their eggshells with an egg tooth that falls off soon after.

Exodus from Africa shows the harrowing effort by the best of young African male blood to break through to Europe via death and danger ridden paths from Sierra Leone and Nigeria, via Mali, Sahara desert, Algeria and Morocco through the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain.

With sufficient effort or through illegal acts ( such as break and enter ), competitors can usually obtain trade secrets.

In one final effort to break the deadlock and end the war NATO forces planned a summer offensive across Northern Poland and into the Baltics, but the offensive ground to a halt in the face of a Warsaw Pact counterattack.

In an effort to break the deadlock, this front saw the introduction of new military technology, including poison gas, aircraft and tanks.

Ostpolitik was an effort to break with the policies of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), which was the elected government of West Germany from 1949 until 1969.

It also afforded him an opportunity, through the agency of Theodwin, a cardinal ever-vigilant for Crusade supporters, to strike up a correspondence with Conrad III of Germany in an effort to break his alliance with Manuel I Comnenus.

George Alpert, a lawyer responsible for much of the organizational effort, gave another reason for the break: Einstein's desire to offer the presidency of the school to left-wing scholar Harold Laski.

In a similar move made by former North Hollywood neighborhoods that are now named Toluca Woods, West Toluca Lake, and Valley Village, a few Van Nuys neighborhoods have won approval the Los Angeles City Council to break off from Van Nuys and join the more upscale communities of Lake Balboa, Valley Glen and Sherman Oaks in an effort to raise their property values.

As Zinn described in The Nation, though Spelman administrators prided themselves for turning out refined " young ladies ," its students were likely to be found on the picket line, or in jail for participating in the greater effort to break down segregation in public places in Atlanta.

The effort of speech had caused it to break, despite its size of ten foot in length, six in breadth and one in thickness.

Portland's merchants boycotted this effort, and the San Francisco steamship Peytona helped break the impasse.

Her break came when she was discovered by Jack Nicholson in the reception room of Paramount's New York office and was cast as the female lead in his second directorial effort, the 1978 Western Goin ' South.

Sloan made a concerted effort to break into the US market on their 2003 release Action Pact.

In an effort to break free of the coal mining industry, the couple moved to the logging community of Custer, Washington.

This was then wielded by Arthur Travers Harris in an effort to break German morale and obtain the surrender which Douhet had predicted 15 years earlier.

It took a major effort for British forces to break through.

After they were unable to break down the defense for more than a year, Sun Ce requested to lead a force to assist the effort.

The battle was a part of the effort of the Confederacy to break the Union blockade, which had cut off Virginia's largest cities, Norfolk and Richmond, from international trade.

Akhenaten even moved the capital away from the city of Thebes in an effort to break the influence of that powerful temple and assert his own preferred choice of deities, the Aten.

Although she is eventually able to break her drug habit after much effort, she has already contracted HIV from a needle containing infected blood and dies from complications from AIDS in 1986 at the age of 26.

Britain and France also began a naval blockade of Germany on 3 September which aimed to damage the country's economy and war effort.

* In an effort to blockade Sparta from access to Sicilian corn, Athens responds to a plea for help from a delegation from the city of Leontini led by Gorgias, the sophist and rhetorician.

England would not be involved with its rather weak army ; apart from an English brigade in the French army under the Duke of Monmouth its only effort would be made by the Royal Navy: to defeat its Dutch counterpart and ideally blockade the Dutch coast.

The failure to achieve a peace in the west also meant that Germany's own economy was subject to blockade, especially with regard to oil and petroleum, shortages of which would become a limitation on Germany's war effort.

He played a leading role in putting Germany's economy on a war footing, enabling wartime Germany to continue its war effort for years despite the serious shortages of labor and raw materials that were caused by an ever-tightening naval blockade.

On 4 September, the Allies announced a blockade of Germany to prevent her importing food and raw materials to sustain her war effort, and the Germans immediately declared a counter-blockade.

Rubin also noted that half the funds northern Iraq received through the sanctions regime had not been spent, thus the amount of goods it actually purchased was less than what the rest of Iraq was provided ; that northern Iraq had recently been subjected to chemical weapons and was under a separate blockade by the central government ; and that UN workers had rebuilt water purification facilities all over Iraq and engaged in dozens of other projects in an effort to compensate for the UN restrictions on and approval process for potential " dual-use " chemicals.

A German blockade cut off food and fuel shipments from farm areas to punish the reluctance of the Dutch to aid the Nazi war effort.

A blockade is an effort to cut off food, supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force, either in part or totally.

Milne did monitor the effectiveness of the Union blockade, but no effort to contest its effectiveness was ever attempted, and the monitoring was discontinued in November 1861.

The Save the Children Fund was founded in London, England, on April 15, 1919 by Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton as an effort to alleviate starvation of children in Germany and Austria-Hungary during the Allied blockade of Germany in World War I.

Argentina was the only Latin American country to participate in the 1991 Gulf War sending a destroyer and a corvette in first term and a supply ship and another corvette later to participate on the United Nations blockade and sea control effort of the gulf.

Attempts to run the blockade and resupply Malta proved to be costly and often ended in failure ; the two-pronged effort to resupply Malta during June 1942 — known as Operations Harpoon ( from Gibraltar ) and Vigorous ( from Alexandria, Egypt )— were unsuccessful, only two merchantmen from Harpoon and none from Vigorous reached Malta, while many others ( including the only tanker included in Harpoon ) were sunk, and the escorting warships also suffered heavy casualties.

As a consequence, much-needed humanitarian relief which had been held up by the fighting and blockade finally managed to enter the city, notably a major convoy organized by private citizens, businessmen and clerics from Baghdad as a joint Shi ' a-Sunni effort.

In the four years of war, the Federal Navy enforced a blockade that certainly weakened the South, although its effect on the war effort is still debated.

As the Flood spread across Halo and infect High Charity in Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, the Covenant form a blockade in an effort to prevent the parasite from leaving its prison.

After the discovery of Arms in the Iraqi Embassy in Pakistan, the Navy made an effort to apply a naval blockade to prevent arms smuggling in the Province.

Confederate success in this campaign would have denied the Union a major source of the gold and silver necessary to finance its war effort, and the Union navy would have had the additional difficulty of attempting to blockade several hundred miles of coastline in the Pacific.

The Union forces sought to destroy or remove these batteries as part of the effort to blockade Confederate States coastal and Chesapeake Bay ports.

With the outbreak of war on 3 September 1939, Britain and France initiated a naval blockade to weaken Germany by depriving her of the vital imports she needed to sustain her war effort.

Economic sanctions can vary from imposing import duties on goods from, or blocking the export of certain goods to the target country, to a full naval blockade of its ports in an effort to verify, and curb or block specified imported goods.

The effort was made as a blockade and to battle Mexican General Santa Ana who was fighting a war in Texas ( the Battle of the Alamo, Battle of San Antonio, Battle of San Jacinto, and so on.

The Union blockade, took place between 1861 and 1865, during the American Civil War, when the Union Navy maintained a strenuous effort on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the Confederate States of America designed to prevent the passage of trade goods, supplies, and arms to and from the Confederacy.