Sentence examples for clear hold from inspiring English sources

"Clear, hold and build, it's short-sighted for two reasons," the United Nations official said.

American troops are no longer enjoined to "find, fix, finish" but to "clear, hold, build".

The administration's "clear, hold, build" strategy is meant to win over Afghans.

The essence of our civil-military plan is to clear, hold, build, and transfer.

"I have said our strategy is to clear, hold and build," Ms. Rice said.

But on Afghan terrain you also need "clear, hold and build operations" of the kind seen around Kandahar.

And once we clear, hold and build Afghanistan for him, he is going to break our hearts.

The American military refers to its strategy, first enunciated in Iraq in 2006, as "clear, hold and build".

Iraqis are vying for a role in rebuilding there under the American "clear, hold and build" strategy.

Though the orders from Washington are to clear, hold and build, accomplishing that on the ground is proving difficult.

Its watchwords were "clear-hold-build": clear an area of insurgents, hold on to the gains rather than move on, and build up government and the local economy.