21.   Indeed, Marcos has cried wolf before, threatening rebels would launch offensives that never materialized.

22.   Iraqi exports were about to begin when its military launched an offensive in Kurdish northern Iraq during the weekend.

23.   Military and civilian officials here said the Serbs had carefully built up the forces to launch the offensive over six months.

24.   Muslim-led government forces launched an offensive against the Bosnian Serbs from their northwestern enclave of Bihac, and Bosnian Croats joined in on the Muslim side.

25.   Most officials, including Wilkinson, doubt the defeated army will be ready to launch an offensive any time soon.

26.   Now a re-armed and expanded Croatian army has launched an offensive aimed at recovering the whole of Krajina, an area amounting to roughly a third of all Croatia.

27.   On cue, the storm launched an offensive of heavy snow at night.

28.   Pakistan is considered to be the likely country where U.S. troops would be based to launch an offensive against Afghanistan.

29.   Q. If that is true, why did the Bosnians launch an offensive around Sarajevo earlier this week?

30.   Recently, one of the paramilitary groups launched an offensive in southwestern Colombia.