pincer movement

/ ˈpɪnsə /

noun

1. Also called: envelopment. 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

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A Royal Marines sniper circled overhead in a wildcat helicopter, while a boarding team of 42 Commando closed in on the drug runner in the water, in what the Royal Navy described as a pincer movement.

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Time will tell whether this PR strategy—a kind of pincer movement of It’s Not My Fault and Who Even Cares—will be effective, particularly given that Trump’s mass firings may also create very tangible problems with the maintenance of national parks, air safety, and tax refunds.

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Last month they seized the village of Prechystivka to the west and Vodyane to the east to complete a pincer movement.

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“Arnsdorf’s 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.”

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“I think the best way of thinking about Heller is it’s 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,” Fordham University professor and legal historian Saul Cornell said.

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