Sentence examples for focused on countering from inspiring English sources

Much more powerful technology is just beginning to reach the marketplace from military research programs that have focused on countering biological and chemical attacks.

The SAS's longest operational commitment was in Northern Ireland, where from 1969 until 2007, when the military operation ended, it focused on countering the Provisional Irish Republican Army PIRAA).

Whitehall departments are too busy concentrating on other issues to collaborate wholeheartedly with it, while the Home Office is focused on countering terrorism, and the MoD on operations abroad.

On Thursday, Mr. Gates also announced the creation of a Pentagon task force to try to unify disparate parts of the sprawling Defense Department into a single unit focused on countering the threat of the explosive devices in Afghanistan.

The concept hasn't caught on with most western democracies, which remain focused on countering violent extremism; but it has been warmly received by non-democratic states, including some in the Gulf, which favour the sort of broad definitions that tar nonviolent dissidents with the same brush as violent ones.

The Army Command and General Staff College, cited in the article as providing no required course of instruction to our students for an insurgent environment, currently provides education focused on countering insurgencies, as well as instruction on stability and reconstruction operations, which are closely related to activities aimed at countering guerrilla activities.

Since 9/11, he added, a lot of energy had been focused on counter-terrorism.

But the ammunition they fire is compatible with guns used by the FARC.Hitherto Colombia's military build-up has been wholly focused on counter-insurgency.

"We've got counter-terrorist guys who are focused on counter-terrorism and they grew up fighting the al-Qaida networks, but Isis is a different kind of network," Harvey said.

A thousand French soldiers will remain indefinitely in Mali (down from a peak of over 4,000 last year), focused on counter-terrorism operations in the north, where there has been a resurgence of violence.

Ajai Sahni is a founding member and executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management, a New Delhi-based think tank focused on counter-terrorism, as well as a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, a pan-Asian academic group that advises governments.