Sentence examples for ground supply from inspiring English sources

Pakistan's closing of NATO's ground supply routes to Afghanistan has added about $100 million a month to the costs of the Afghan war, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told Congress on Wednesday.

In 2012, the first completely autonomous ground supply vehicle, built by Lockheed, was used to ferry more than 10,000 pounds of supplies to a combat outpost in Afghanistan more than a mile from a military base.

Several Syrian Army checkpoints are strung along the asphalt, a bid to keep ground supply lines open — a military imperative for Mr. Assad in part because his government's helicopter fleet has been thinned, making aerial resupply difficult.

Ground supply routes linking those provinces to Damascus, the capital, have slowly been cut off throughout the spring and summer, as rebels have mastered the use of roadside bombs and gradually overrun government bases and checkpoints along the way.

Since the beginning of the drought, farmers have drilled their wells deeper, sucking up more of the ground supply.

The Pentagon has said that it will be able to manage these issues, but one has to wonder if losing major ground supply routes won't turn a complex withdrawal into a nightmare.

Absent "boots on the ground," supplying rebels with arms or establishing a no-fly zone are half-measures that are unlikely to advance an endgame that serves American interests or alters Mr. Assad's calculus to step aside — all the while, intensifying the lethality of the conflict without contributing toward a decisive end.

And it could work, too; Apple describes that in one embodiment, the service fee could be split between the person on the ground supplying the cash and iTunes itself, which would provide an incentive to participate.

The diversion of so much water and the introduction of pesticides into ground supplies left the Yaqui pueblos without sufficient potable water.

That equipment includes housing units, armored vehicles and material needed to operate aircraft, like mobile air traffic control towers and ground supplies, per Foreign Policy.

Pumps, storage tanks, supply points and hand pumps, as well as daily chlorination of the water and measurements on ground supplies, are entirely managed by residents of the camp, with technical advice and supplies from UNICEF/WES.