Sentence examples for mobilization units from inspiring English sources

David Petraeus, who commanded US troops in Iraq during 2007-2008, has voiced concerns over reports of sectarian atrocities committed by the Shia Popular Mobilization Units (al-Hashd al-Sha'bi or PMUs) as well as by Iraqi security forces.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi met with leaders of Iraq's "popular mobilization units" Sunday night to discuss the ground offensive to reclaim Tikrit from Islamic State militants, his spokesman Saad al-Hadithi said.

Since leaving office, he has become a particular champion of the legions of largely Shiite volunteers and militias known as the "popular mobilization units" — many of which answered a call from Iraq's most senior Shiite cleric to fight.

Thousands of ground troops involved in the Tikrit offensive belong to what are known as "popular mobilization units" — loose affiliations of Shiite fighters and militiamen that formed after a call to arms from Iraq's leading Shiite cleric.

Ahmed al-Asadi, an Iraqi lawmaker and a spokesman for the popular mobilization units, who also attended the meeting, said that the Badr Organization, Asaib Ahl al-Haq and Kitaeb Imam Ali militias would resume fighting.

Khadami said leaders of the mobilization units and Shiite militias had held an emergency meeting Thursday before coming to the decision to remain in their positions but not participate in operations.

A special MITE termed integron mobilization unit (IMU) was detected in plasmid DNA of Enterobacter cloacae (Poirel et al. 2009).

Mills et al. examinined circulating EPC number and colony forming unit mobilization in 24 patients undergoing elective PCI.[31] Similar to our data, they observed a 3-fold increase in cultured cells in the first 24 hours following PCI with the majority of their patients being concomitantly treated with statin medications.

A senior Defense official said the mobilization would not involve units but rather individuals "to fill specific shortages for specific jobs".

Germany was able to deliver 380,000 troops to the forward zone within 18 days of the start (July 14) of mobilization, while many French units reached the front either late or with inadequate supplies.

One criticism in China in 2008 was that when Prime Minister Wen Jiabao rushed to Sichuan and saw the extent of the damage, he was unable to approve the immediate mobilization of nearby military units because, unlike President Hu Jintao then and Mr. Xi now, he did not run the Central Military Commission, which oversees the People's Liberation Army.