Sentence examples for lowering troop from inspiring English sources

While Bush considers lowering troop levels, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke considers lowering interest rates.

One-third said all the troops should be removed now, and 37percentt favored lowering troop levels.

The prime minister said any decision on lowering British troop levels below 2,500 would be made in the spring.

Would that deadline spur the Iraqis to overcome their political differences and enable the United States to stabilize Iraq at far lower troop levels, as Mr. Obama asserts?

Sensitive to public opinion and budgetary pressures, the White House has generally favored lower troop levels during its previous deliberations on Afghanistan and Iraq.

So even if Mr. Obama opts for a lower troop commitment, Afghanistan's new costs could wash out the projected $26 billion expected to be saved in 2010 from withdrawing troops from Iraq.

This will keep happening as it becomes more apparent that the surge is a stalemate, bringing neither lower troop levels nor anything more than a fragile temporary stability to Iraq.

Evidently sensitive to how lower troop levels might be seen — by enemies abroad and critics at home — he emphasized in his address that early drawdowns were now possible only because the strategy of sending more troops to Iraq eight months ago had worked.

"Any military operation is now examined as if it was a crime, and that has lowered the troops' morale," he said.

His laundry-list of options included lowering expectations and withdrawing troops to the periphery of the country.The Democrats are also signalling a growing willingness to co-operate with the administration in dealing with what everybody now recognises is a foreign-policy disaster.

The mission was only partly successful in disarming the main warring factions because, as last week's outbreaks showed, enough weapons remain in Somalia for the lawlessness and looting to resume whenever the foreign troops lower their guard.