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pincer movement
/ 藞辫瑟苍蝉蓹 /
noun
- a military tactical movement in which two columns of an army follow a curved route towards each other with the aim of isolating and surrounding an enemy Also calledenvelopment
Example Sentences
Time will tell whether this PR strategy鈥攁 kind of pincer movement of It鈥檚 Not My Fault and Who Even Cares鈥攚ill be effective, particularly given that Trump鈥檚 mass firings may also create very tangible problems with the maintenance of national parks, air safety, and tax refunds.
Last month they seized the village of Prechystivka to the west and Vodyane to the east to complete a pincer movement.
鈥淎rnsdorf鈥檚 book ... will give you a sense of how the Republican Party has landed on a plan to entrench power in a pincer movement: minority rule on the one hand and mass radicalization on the other.鈥
鈥淚 think the best way of thinking about Heller is it鈥檚 a classic pincer movement, where you have a well-coordinated effort among what I affectionately call the originalism-industrial complex, which includes the Federalist Society and libertarian and right-wing think tanks like Heritage and AEI and Hoover, and then a very popular grassroots movement for gun rights,鈥 Fordham University professor and legal historian Saul Cornell said.
In recent months, they had been slowly advancing through relentless assaults, in a pincer movement.
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