Sentence examples for large scale ground from inspiring English sources

High intensity extraction of coal underground results in large scale ground settlement, barren farmland, and decrease of cultivated land.

Headquarters 1st Division is responsible for high-level training activities and is capable of being deployed to command large scale ground operations.

But shooting a large-scale ground battle is virtually impossible.

The author refers to "the supposed obsolescene of large-scale ground combat", reflected in official American policy and defence reviews.

The reluctance to deploy large-scale ground troops has not stopped unilateral use of assassination by drone.

It soon became apparent that the rocket fire could be stopped only by a large-scale ground operation.

He added that troops on Israel's northern border "are of more than division strength and would allow a large-scale ground offensive if necessary".

And in Macedonia, the government opened a large-scale ground offensive against armed Albanian rebels holding villages north of the capital, Skopje, ordering a heavy bombardment despite the thousands of civilians sheltering in basements in those villages.

Syrian troops have launched a large-scale ground attack on rebel-held areas of Aleppo in a bid to make concrete military gains after nearly a week of punitive bombardment that has mostly hit civilians.

Tanker charter rates depend heavily on oil prices and on political stability in the Middle East; the usual late summer lull in shipments and the end of large-scale ground combat in Iraq have recently brought rates down.

The ISA, he said, believes that the best option now is a large-scale ground incursion into the Gaza Strip that allows the IDF to take over the southern part of the Gaza Strip and to stop smuggling and increase pressure on Hamas.