Sentence examples for lowering troop levels 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.

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.

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.

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

But it was resolved: the Bush team decided to lower taxes rather than raise troop levels.

With President-elect Barack Obama in office, he expects the troop levels in Iraq to be lowered.

The extension effectively cancels the Pentagon's plans for reducing troop levels to about 115,000, or lower, this spring, and breaks a department commitment last fall to limit troops' time to 12 months.

Rhodes, lowering expectations of any breakthrough in the talks with Karzai at the White House on Friday, said it would be months before a final decision is made on troop levels.