Sentence examples for largest ground from inspiring English sources

Crucially, the US and its allies are not giving air support to the Shia militias and the Syrian army, which are the two largest ground forces opposing Isis.

The next day, President Bush called for Israel to withdraw from villages, towns and refugee camps in the West Bank -- its largest ground offensive in 20 years.

The list comprised of those seats targeted by the ACTU in their largest ground campaign since Your Rights At Work unseated John Howard in 2007.

In Helmand, British troops are engaging Taliban forces that are battalion-strong in the largest ground war we have faced since the Second World War.

The mission to retake the city from Islamic State, which had held it since 2014, was the largest ground operation since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

In March, during the largest ground operation of the war, the American military prevented its Afghan allies from bringing members of news organizations into the area of combat.

LLANO DE CHAJNANTOR, Chile — Trucks stall on the road to this plateau 16,597 feet up in the Atacama Desert, where scientists are installing one of the world's largest ground-based astronomical projects.

Using the world's largest ground-based telescope and refinements in their search techniques, the American astronomers found compelling evidence of two relatively small planets around separate stars a little more than 100 light-years away.

Astronomers today signed an unprecedented contract to build the world's largest ground-based optical and infrared telescope.

The mission team has already been granted dozens of nights of time on some of the largest ground-based telescopes on Earth, to no avail.

Currently, the world's largest ground-based optical telescope is Gran Telescopio Canarias in the Canary Islands, Spain, with a mirror of 10.4m (34.1ft) in diameter.