Sentence examples for coalition side from inspiring English sources
From the coalition side comes the cry that "more competition" in the supply market is required.
Losses on the coalition side include six Afghan police who were killed by militants as they tried to clear a poppy field on Friday.
The proportion of accidental deaths to intentional targeting by insurgents has fallen recently, according to the latest data, as a result of both tightened rules of engagement on the coalition side and an increase in Taliban attacks.
As military commanders and political leaders review the strategy for Afghanistan, General McKiernan expressed doubts that a successful effort in Iraq that enlisted tribal forces to the coalition side could be repeated in Afghanistan.
"There's no one I've spoken to, at least on the American side — or, actually, on the coalition side — that doesn't think we need to proceed from a position of strength," Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said.
Iran and Syria and Al Qaeda could wreak havoc through myriad proxy militants as punishment for Turkey's embrace of the coalition side.
But if you forget the label, and poll on the substance of his remarks, you find a broad, fresh coalition siding with the president on all the major issues he highlighted.
The appearance of the coalition siding with Assad/Iran by only bombing Sunni radicals, while doing nothing as Iran moves tens of thousands of European- and U.S.-designated Shi'ite terrorists into Syria, is deeply damaging, helping Isis to present itself as the guardian of the Sunnis.
Any effort to build an Arab coalition to side with the United States on major policy issues across the region is now jeopardized.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has made three calls since the weekend to Egypt's powerful defense minister, Field Marshal Tantawi, who served on the coalition's side in the Persian Gulf war of 1991.
It says the "golden-pompadoured, maverick parliamentarian Geert Wilders, anti-Islam, nationalist Freedom party remains a thorn in the coalition's side, capitalising on the social stresses resulting from the failure to fully integrate almost a million Dutch Muslims".
