Sentence examples for costly engagements from inspiring English sources

Costly engagements such as Korea, Vietnam and Iraq then breed caution.That view is over-simple.

Several costly engagements with the strong Japanese forces in the area followed.

In promoting the Iraq expedition as a necessary response to an immediate terrorist threat, however, they have failed to prepare the American public for what looks to be a long and costly engagement in the Middle East.

The religious and political revolt gathered momentum, with the Egyptians steadily losing ground and the British showing little enthusiasm for a costly engagement in this remote region.

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who had already tried and failed to draw Coalition troops into costly ground engagements by shelling Saudi positions and oil storage tanks and firing Scud surface-to-surface missiles at Israel, ordered the invasion of Saudi Arabia from southern Kuwait.

The Kremlin fears, perhaps rightly, that it cannot sell a costly military engagement to the Russian people it wants geopolitical leverage abroad and a patriotic boost at home without any echoes of the doomed Soviet war in Afghanistan or more recent campaigns in Chechnya.

Next, consider less costly re-engagement campaigns during the holiday week to drive revenue and retention.

As world leaders now consider a military campaign to confront Isis, they should remember the lessons of America's costly and largely fruitless engagements in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam.

I'm only two days in and though the Monk-like silence (my silence at least) has been frightening (and costly due to cancelled engagements) it also feels -- if only for its novelty -- like something vast and even beckoning.

Finally, so-called realists seek to avoid a costly and potentially dangerous engagement in a complicated civil conflict, preferring to continue to work with regional allies and other major powers to exhaust diplomatic alternatives.

French forces could be bogged down in a costly and open-ended engagement.