Sentence examples for long frontline from inspiring English sources

While the overwhelming majority of Kurdish peshmerga are battling Isis on a long frontline in northern Iraq, some corrupt commanders within the force have facilitated the oil-smuggling from Isis territory.

The Pentagon's hopes of recapturing the city by spring 2015 have been dashed by the military failures of the Iraqi Army further south, leaving the peshmerga to defend a 600-mile long frontline almost encircling Mosul, fending off constant Islamic State (IS) assaults with insufficient supplies of ammunition and modern weapons.

Other organisations which missed out entirely said they would have to close offices and wind up long-running frontline services.

"The Card Game," a new production in the long-running "Frontline" documentary series on PBS, does a fine job of it.

ESPN belatedly focused on the fact that it did not have editorial control of what appeared on "Frontline" long into a collaboration that has already resulted in nine joint television and online reports that have appeared on ESPN's "Outside the Lines" program, on ESPN.com and on the "Frontline" Web site.

All they know is that dozens more families are squatting in tents, the airport has been closed for a year, the runway will cost $6m to repair and that the Palestinian police had made a pretty good fist of keeping the recent quiet in Rafah, long a violent frontline.

The Azeri and Armenian leaders, even after years of prodding from France, Russia and the United States, failed to find a settlement for Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian-controlled enclave within Azerbaijan where a long and mountainous frontline bristles with Armenian and Azeri troops.

They stand blocking streets long after the frontlines have shifted elsewhere, a lingering reminder of a violence that moves but never really goes away.

It's a long way from the frontline.

The insurgents' statement said the fighters were ready to pull back their heavy weapons from the frontline as long as Ukrainian forces did the same.

"It was a surprise, particularly the increase in Mato Grosso," she said in reference to the state that has long been on the frontline of forest clearance.