Sentence examples for ground actions from inspiring English sources

But the harsh Afghan winter will hamper American and British ground actions in Afghanistan.

Ground actions never actually ceased in 1951, but none matched the ferocity and frustration of the Eighth Army's Autumn Offensive (August 31 November 12).

It would feature swift ground actions to seize footholds in the country and strikes to cut off the leadership in Baghdad.

They also are recommending preserving the option to conduct cross-border ground actions, using C.I.A. and Special Operations commandos, as was done in September.

But he acknowledged that ground actions -- and particularly the heavy bombardment of Baghdad, which apparently has resulted in dozens of civilian deaths and injuries -- might have had the effect of stiffening the anti-American resolve of at least some of the citizenry.

Figure 13 Proportion of turns of goal directed actions, ground actions and rest of possible actions in the mental-state and baseline systems.

The Rev Jesse Jackson called for "massive ground action".

Even a group of cameramen wouldn't be able to shoot more than a small portion of a complex ground action.

His controversial "joke" comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the IDF had launched a directive for "ground action" against Gaza.

In World War II much of the town was destroyed by German air and ground action, but it has been completely rebuilt and enlarged.

There have been several serious suicide bomb attacks in the cities, he said, but no significant ground action by militants since the onset of the floods.