Sentence examples for a training force from inspiring English sources

They didn't mean to; a hundred Britons were going to linger, as a training force.

He never mentioned the tense and ultimately fruitless negotiations with Iraq over whether to keep several thousand US forces there as a training force and a hedge against meddling from Iran or other outside forces.

Even if American and Iraqi negotiators cannot reach agreement on a training force by the withdrawal deadline, they could still return next year to negotiations that would allow the return of some American personnel.

That is partly because the Iraqi Parliament left suddenly for summer recess without voting to extend an agreement for the British military to keep a residual training force of 100 soldiers in Iraq.

He said that a European Union training force would help, but that Libya would continue to focus on integrating former fighters into a regular security force.

The bombing is the latest in a wave of attacks that have taken place since last year's drawdown of foreign troops to a small training force.

The Iraqi government said early Wednesday morning that it could begin talks about keeping a limited training force in the country.

The alliance has agreed informally that a post-2014 training force should number around 8,000 to 12,000 troops, but few countries have formally promised to participate alongside the U.S. "We're transitioning, not leaving," Hagel said.

And it will make it harder for Mr. Obama to argue compellingly to keep a smaller counterterrorism and training force in Afghanistan into 2015 and beyond.

The trouble began in January after a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men in Lahore, prompting the withdrawal of a quarter of the US training force.

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