Sentence examples for long-term base from inspiring English sources

In an interview he gave to al-Jazeera, the Arabic channel, he said: "We have no plans for a long-term base in Iraq".

Its activists are so committed, according to police and other officials, that decades ago they ensured that they married into families based near the university to secure a long-term base.

"For some industry players, the UK now makes less sense as a long-term base for their high-level European operations, if they can make the knowledge-cost ratio stack up elsewhere".

One person's long-term base is another's permanent base, however — and in the region many people took Mrs. Clinton's assurances as proof that the United States was not leaving, whatever the bases are called.

With a shake of the hand, British troops departed and left their Afghan counterparts to take up vacated positions around Britain's long-term base in the restive southern Afghan province of Helmand as the curtain official came down on the UK's 13-year campaign.

Say you wanted to set up a long-term base on the Moon or Mars, what would you need?

They are also seeking the authority to establish more than 50 long-term bases.

Any talk of long-term basing rights, in particular, will only feed popular resentments.

Current president and former US ally Hamid Karzai has refused to sign a long-term basing deal for US forces, which both of his aspiring successors support.

But according to Iraqi leaders, who went public with their complaints this week, Washington has been insisting on keeping more than 50 long-term bases in Iraq.

Afghan officials have acknowledged, however, that the talks do countenance some sort of long-term bases after 2014, if only for the purpose of continued training of Afghan troops.