Sentence examples for deteriorating war from inspiring English sources

In the mid-nineteen-eighties, when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union, he inherited a deteriorating war in Afghanistan.

Despite — or perhaps because of — that American support, Mr. Karzai has come to preside over a corrupt administration, a deteriorating war, and his country's transformation into the largest producer of opium in the world.

Petraeus was selected for CENTCOM in considerable part because Bush and Gates hope that he can help to turn around the deteriorating war in Afghanistan; both Obama and McCain have said that they intend to increase American troop and financial commitments there.

But national security is clearly top of mind for this president, who spent months trying to find the right strategy for the deteriorating war in Afghanistan and is still dealing with the fallout of the Christmas bombing attempt in Detroit.

The following day, Scheer met with Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and General Erich Ludendorff to discuss the deteriorating war situation.

Obama is still expected to send in more troops to bolster a deteriorating war effort.

The final section felt a little like the speech the President would have wished to give from start to finish if he had not inherited a deteriorating Afghan war and boxed himself into fighting that war during the election campaign.

George W. Bush struggled with the deteriorating Iraq war.

President George W. Bush in his fifth and sixth years was in worse shape with Republicans, who shelved his Social Security overhaul, rebelled against the deteriorating Iraq war and helped sink his Supreme Court nomination of Harriet E. Miers.

A new U.S. commander takes over a deteriorating Afghanistan war.

But after the photo-op, inside Jordan Downs' deteriorating World War II-era buildings, plenty of residents felt wary.