Sentence examples for complement of military from inspiring English sources

As Mr. Herron's memorandum made clear, the Gore campaign sought to disqualify as many overseas ballots as possible, knowing that the state's complement of military voters overseas had regularly voted Republican in other elections.

The operation involved the use of ground troops who accompanied a complement of military vehicles, artillery and helicopter gunships to be used to root out the self-described Armenian fedayeen.

Rosen says the "soft power" section of "America at the Crossroads" is "very instructive in its scholarly, wonkish way — a kind of primer for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice," but he questions how effective soft power can be without the hard stuff to complement it: "Short of military intervention, it is difficult to see how any sort of democratic spark could have penetrated Iraq's police state".

This perversion of "soft power" is seen by Moscow as a vital complement to military engagement.Certainly Russia is not alone in abusing soft power.

But General Jones said of Karzai, "I think he understands we have to have a full complement of our offensive military power when we need it".

"I think he understands we have to have a full complement of our offensive military power when we need it," the general said.

In 1998, the group urged Mr. Clinton to adopt a "full complement" of diplomatic and military measures to remove Mr. Hussein, in a letter signed by Mr. Wolfowitz, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and others who now hold senior administration jobs.

In 1998, in a letter signed by Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and a number of other officials who would ultimately take senior jobs in the Bush administration, the group urged President Clinton to adopt a 'full complement' of diplomatic and military measures to remove Saddam Hussein from power".

A considerable number of nonindigenous officials, unfamiliar with the societies of the region, were brought in to consolidate Soviet rule and to complement the heavy presence of military and coercive forces.

In 1998, he signed a petition on the letterhead of the Project for the New American Century, a neoconservative think tank, urging President Clinton to pursue regime change in Iraq using "a full complement of diplomatic, political and military efforts".

That idea has magnified divisions within the Bush administration over the extent to which support for the exiles should go beyond lip service to some form of military backing, complementing the enforcement of no-flight zones in northern and southern Iraq as well as economic sanctions.