Sentence examples for extend tours from inspiring English sources
The central question is whether the scope of reinforcements would require the military either to cut time at home between deployments or to extend tours in the combat zone.
He said that maintaining current troop levels in Iraq beyond next April would force planners to extend tours of duty beyond 15 months, a decision he said he opposed.
Gates said that he knew the extended tours were "exhausting" the soldiers and their families.
In the early days directors, like the actors, tended to sign on to Bond films for extended tours.
Every year the main company, which has 30 dancers, goes on extended tours, visiting 20 to 25 American cities and spending five to eight weeks abroad.
Next season he will do extended tours with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra of London and spend two weeks at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Setting out on one of his most extended tours of the campaign season, Mr. Bush touched on frequent domestic topics, covering tax cuts, education programs and job retraining.
Continuing the surge beyond next spring would mean either extending tours beyond 15 months, or calling up more soldiers from the National Guard and reserves, or both.The election at homeAmerican politicians are hardly less divided than Iraq's.
Canoeing began as a noncompetitive recreation and for a majority of canoeists remained such, involving paddling on local streams and lakes, extended tours, sometimes in North America repaddling the waters of earlier missionaries, explorers, and voyageurs.
Military experts warn that recruiting and retaining these citizen soldiers will get more difficult as they are repeatedly called up to serve extended tours in Iraq or Afghanistan as military police, civil affairs specialists, water-purification experts and other jobs.
He gave no timetable for that reduction, but most Army officials believe those troops will have to begin leaving by the spring unless the White House extends tours longer than 15 months.
