Sentence examples for ground option from inspiring English sources

Air strikes alone will not defeat them, but the ground option is receding after Pakistan rebuffed a Saudi request to send troops (see Banyan).

Mogherini avoided mention of the "boots on the ground" option to destroy smugglers' assets, outlined in an EU strategy paper revealed by the Guardian before the summit.

The day that Clinton finally succumbed to European pressure to authorise a ground attack, Milosevic did what he would have done months earlier if Clinton had not excluded the ground option.

"Clinton was in general agreement that he would do whatever was necessary to win and was moving toward a positive decision on the ground option," General Clark writes, referring to the memo.

Language barring use of American combat forces, the so-called "boots on the ground" option, will be necessary to win additional Democratic votes, he adds.

Running back Latavius Murray has given the Knights a solid ground option, too, rushing for 1,035 yards and 14 scores this season.

In many cases, underground solutions to urban problems are only considered if all other (above ground) options have been exhausted.

While there are more than 110,000 Army and Marine Corps forces now ashore in Kuwait or afloat nearby, the ground options available to Mr. Bush have inherent weaknesses if he gives the order in a week or so.

Although the AI isn't amazing, the array of available vehicles, including both air and ground options, made this a surprisingly sophisticated tactical challenge on a machine better known at the time for brawlers and shooters.

Asked if the British lobbied the US, Guthrie now says: 'We were not hawkish, but we were able to talk about ground options more freely than they were, but undoubtedly they were getting the same sort of thing.

London Welsh chairman Bleddyn Phillips says they have three ground options available to them in the Oxford area.