Sentence examples for committing ground from inspiring English sources

It would take soldiers on the ground to force Milosevic to back down, so Blair set out to cajole his principal ally, President Clinton, into committing ground troops.

The British said earlier that they would support the American attack with reconnaissance and midair refueling planes and might consider committing ground troops.

It says it wants to declare a buffer zone, cleared of Isis fighters, west of Kobani, but at the same time the Deputy Prime Minister, Bulent Arinc, said at the weekend that  Turkey was "not thinking" of committing ground troops.

He highlights the president's call for avoiding "unnecessary conflict," in particular his opposition to committing ground forces against the Islamic State militant group in Iraq.

Yet it is unclear — short of committing ground troops — how much more action France can sustain against the group.

President Obama, who has come under fire for not rushing into the civil war in Syria or committing ground troops to fight ISIS in northern Iraq, understands the power of the just peace model.

It dare not commit ground troops.

Turkey says it is not going to commit ground troops.

Yet even if politicians were ready to commit ground troops, the obstacles would be formidable.

Russia was unwilling to commit ground troops, making it secondary to Iran, which had sent many.

So the scream goes out that Nato should have committed ground troops.