Sentence examples for maintain a force from inspiring English sources

Obama's statement put an end to months of wrangling over whether the US would maintain a force in Iraq beyond 2011.

The Pentagon has budgeted about $65 billion to maintain a force of about 68,000 troops, meaning that each additional 1,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan would cost about $1 billion a year.

He says that he wants to maintain a force structure that can meet today's challenges, but find enough savings in equipment and personnel to invest more in high-tech systems for the next century.In the 1990s America's spending on arms procurement has slumped to about $40 billion a year, half the level of ten years ago.

The return of Australian personnel from the SWPA was delayed by shipping shortages and the need to maintain a force in the area for garrison duties.

He was ordered by the king to maintain a force of 40 men-at-arms and 50 mounted archers near the west end of the Scottish border region, and some were likely stationed at Brougham.

Responsible as CAS for building up Australia's air combat assets, in 1943 Jones had given an assurance to the Australian government that he could maintain a force of 73 squadrons, despite Kenney's prediction that even the RAAF's then-currently approved strength of 45 squadrons was beyond its capacity.

Russia maintained a force of some 1,500 troops in Transdniestria.

Britain maintains a force of four nuclear submarines that patrol year-round carrying Trident missiles.

France, which had colonized Djibouti (pronounced ji-BOOT-e) before it became independent in 1977, still maintains a force of 2,800 strong here.

The firm maintains a force of 600 armed men based in Baghdad's Green Zone to protect embassy and other United States government civilian employees.

Unlike Russia, which still maintains a force of more than 5,000 warheads from the cold war, China has deployed a minimal nuclear force, primarily 18 single-warhead land-based CSS-4 missiles.