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On the ground.
Events on the ground are where things are actually happening, not at a distance.
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Because of difficulties on the ground and mounting casualties in the war, the debate over the American presence in Afghanistan has begun earlier than expected.
Civil servants in major areas of five provinces overrun in a militant offensive led by [Isis] may not have been receiving salaries already due to difficulties on the ground.
The Independent has been told that despite difficulties on the ground of obtaining accurate intelligence aimed at limiting civilian casualties, the US-led air operations command at Udeid in Qatar have already identified specific Syrian targets that the RAF would be expected to hit within days.
That was an extreme case, to be sure, but a similar pattern appears time and again: ill-prepared central managers, local officers facing unexpected difficulties on the ground, political pressures at home and abroad, all resulting in a catalogue of unintended and sometimes tragic consequences.In this section Is there life after death?
But there is another critical role the media could play simply by continuing to follow the situation, look forward and keep the public informed of the reality and difficulties on the ground, often for years to come.
In the past, as a representative of an export company, I experienced these difficulties on the ground and I believe that the proposal in question will help to remedy them.
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But beyond the on-the-ground difficulties at Standing Rock, the camps inspired people across the country.
But his normally disciplined on-the-ground operation has seemed to have difficulty adapting to the rapidly evolving political climate.
The willingness to make the gesture overwhelms whatever difficulties there are on the ground.
Part of this no doubt reflects the fog of war, and the difficulty of troops on the ground making sense of messy situations.
Given the extraordinary difficulty in reporting on the ground in Chechnya, how do you generally go about collecting and publishing information on what is happening there?
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