6 sentences with “launching”

In September 1826, General Carlos de Alvear took command of the Republican Army and set about launching an offensive against the Brazilian forces.

The skunk's defence mechanism consists of two glands located under its tail, capable of launching its pestilent musk at a distance of up to three metres, with extraordinary accuracy.

When the US government learned of the Soviet missiles, serious consideration was given to launching a full-scale assault on Cuba, something that could have led directly to nuclear war.

Many US military leaders believed at the time in the possibility of a "limited nuclear war" in which the missile sites would be destroyed quickly enough to prevent the Soviets from launching counterattacks.

These soldiers created far-right terrorist groups, launching attacks on prominent intellectuals who spoke out against the war (the leading French philosopher of the time, Jean-Paul Sartre, had his flat in Paris destroyed in a bomb attack).

Behind the trenches were artillery batteries, capable of launching huge shells for miles, and further back still the command posts of senior officers futilely devising new variations on a constant theme: desperate assaults on the enemy's impregnable position.