forward defence in a sentence

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1. The fighting mostly stopped early on 11 April, as U . S . and Iraqi forces managed to advance down the main road through Sadr City and set up a forward defence line inside the district.
2. Each battalion in the 8th Brigade was to attack in four company-sized waves with the final objective three-quarters of a mile beyond La Folie Farm and the German 3rd line of forward defences.
3. As dawn broke on 26 October, they located the correct trail, but inexperienced or unwilling guides first led them about mid-morning to a point on the river opposite de Salaberry's forward defences.
4. Over the course of time, the fortification systems were improved : the outer walls of the defenses were faced with stone blocks, the moat was broadened and forward defences were added in front of the rampart.
5. In the years after the Vietnam War, Australia's defence policy shifted away from emphasising'forward defence': countering potential threats as far from Australia as possible, typically through joint operations with allied forces.
6. Despite repeated requests, the British government did not provide the necessary reinforcements and they denied Brooke-Popham  and therefore Percival  permission to enter neutral Thailand before it was too late to put in place forward defences.
7. Initially, the British had planned to secure the high ground of the island's interior, but Brig Tilney insisted on a forward defence on the coastline, which had the effect of spreading his forces too thinly.
8. In an interview with the'Sunday Observer'the Army Commander Lt . Gen . Sarath Fonseka said that the Army has occupied the LTTE's Forward Defence Lines and surrounded the Wanni LTTE bases from all directions.
9. Many elements of the late army's defence posture were similar to those associated with forward defence, such as forward location of forts, frequent cross-border operations, and external buffer-zones of allied barbarian tribes.
10. While claiming that the basic strategy of the fourth century was defence-in-depth, he admits that there were repeated attempts by the stronger emperors ( up to and including Valentinian I ) to revert to forward defence.