Sentence examples for advancing coalition from inspiring English sources

Mr Hakim has vowed to return to Najaf but, in the interim, American forces have pointedly denied like-minded pro-Iranian clerics in the city a role in distributing humanitarian relief.This kind of wary gamesmanship is likely to extend over the rest of the country, as advancing coalition troops leave administrative confusion in their wake.

Senior Iraqi officials struck a posture of defiance today in the face of advancing coalition troops and a night of punishing air attacks on Baghdad that reduced many of Saddam Hussein's most prized palaces and other crucial government buildings to hollowed-out, smoldering wrecks.

It was fought in what became known as the France campaign of 1814, as the emperor tried in vain to hold back the advancing coalition armies.

Dutton also commanded the brigade through heavy fighting on the outskirts of Basra and commented that the fighting had been more intense there than predicted, saying "the planning assumption had always been that the advancing coalition forces would simply sweep past Basra and it would implode by itself".

American marines are also approaching Baghdad a little way to the east, in the direction of Kut.To sustain the pace of this advance, coalition forces have intentionally and unusually bypassed what have become euphemistically known as "pockets of resistance".

Abune Paulos served as an Honorary President of Religions for Peace, the world's largest and most representative multi-religious coalition, advancing common action among the world's religious communities.

He will also owe the National party big time, increasing the internal clout of Barnaby Joyce, who is no shrinking violet when it comes to advancing the junior coalition partner's interests.

Lyric also serves as co-chair of the Girls Not Brides USA advocacy coalition working to end child marriage, on the steering committee of the Coalition to End Gender-Based Violence Globally, and plays a leadership role in various other coalitions advancing the global policy agenda on women and girls.

Pentagon officials said the move marked the beginning of a northern front, aimed at diverting Iraqi soldiers from attacking coalition forces advancing through southern Iraq.

The proposal, advanced by a coalition of local civic groups, would replace the town's system of at-large elections for town board members with elections in council districts.

The second and more important issue was the argument advanced by a coalition of industry groups that the E.P.A. administrator should have taken economic factors -- costs and benefits -- into account in setting the new air quality standards.