Sentence examples for competent ground from inspiring English sources

The YPG has been the most competent ground force to fight the jihadists, but was accused by Amnesty International on Tuesday of conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Arabs and Turkmen in towns and villages it had conquered near the Turkish border.

But without competent ground forces, he said, U.S. and coalition airstrikes will have minimal effect because they cannot teach the "moral component" to fight and die for a common cause.

Given the lack of competent ground troops to take the fight to ISIL (due in part to the White House's implacable rejection of supporting or even tacitly cooperating with the Shia militias because of their link to Iran), it becomes absolutely crucial.

Another reason for choosing these countries was the presence of competent researchers on the ground with a thorough knowledge of how the health systems actually work in practice (something that differs considerably from their official functioning).

Second, the fight against IS cannot succeed without competent troops on the ground to guide coalition aircraft to their targets, pursue enemy leaders and take and hold territory.

Effectiveness in attacking it depends on good intelligence, which in turn can only come from a competent partner on the ground capable of identifying targets and swiftly passing on this information to aircraft overhead.

The comitte have as far as in their power and judgment, inquired and examined into the competency of the Hasan Mr. Gershon and do not find him competent on the following grounds.

For that purpose the evidence was clearly competent; it covered the whole ground and warranted the verdict of the jury.

Today's announcement by the President of the mobilization of 3,000 members of the U.S. military and the establishment of a command center in Liberia was preceded by an announcement from CDC Director, Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, of an expansion of health care worker training for competent Ebola response on the ground in west Africa.

Likewise, most passengers simply want a competent, experienced pilot to land them safely on the ground.

Overall, the rock mass was less weathered and more competent than predicted by the initial ground investigation.