Sentence examples for decision to ground from inspiring English sources

Congress gave the airlines $5 billion in cash and the $10 billion in loan guarantees to make up the losses caused by the government's decision to ground all airplanes after the terrorist attacks.

The decision to ground flights was based on the view that any level of ash in the atmosphere posed some risk to aircraft, and that no matter how slight that risk might be, the government's job was, as Gordon Brown put it, "to make sure that safety was paramount".

Its decision to ground its entire fleet was unprecedented.

His supporters said Mr. Clarke played a central role in the decision to ground all of the nation's airliners quickly.

Meanwhile, the chief executive of Qantas, Alan Joyce, who faced sharp criticism over his decision to ground the fleet, struck a contrite tone.

Mr Cameron defended his decision to ground all UK-bound flights to and from the Red Sea resort, saying his first priority was to protect British citizens.

Even Japan's decision to send ground troops to Iraq seems rooted not in an aggressive foreign policy but in a move to dispel worries over a nuclear North Korea and a rising China by cementing ties with the United States.

There has been a long debate about the decision to use ground troops, who only moved in to southern Lebanon in large numbers towards the end of the conflict.

Just two days earlier, his father, the novelist David Grossman, together with his colleagues Amos Oz and AB Yehoshua, had convened a press conference to protest against the Israeli cabinet's decision to expand ground operations, and called for an immediate ceasefire and the start of negotiations.

Clearly, the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, with the horrific loss of American lives they entailed, would give any United States decision to dispatch ground forces a kind of moral imperative that American involvement in Vietnam lacked, even if fighting a land war in Afghanistan would weaken the broad coalition that has been assembled to fight terrorism.

However, in June 1965 the decision to commit ground troops was made, and the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment originally commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Lou Brumfield wasas dispatched.