Sentence examples for overseas commitment from inspiring English sources

The unending war in Afghanistan is rapidly being transformed into Obama's version of the Iraq debacle, with a growing proportion of the electorate losing faith in this costly overseas commitment that has become the center of gravity for Obama's war on terror.

Meanwhile, America's overseas commitments are almost as demanding as ever.

It's not just in our overseas commitments that we lack the ability to make strategic choices.

From Drake to Nelson and even in the aftermath of 9/11, British overseas commitments always had one foot planted in European heartlands.

But today's donors have impact because Washington is pulling back from overseas commitments and aid to poor nations has plummeted.

Unlike past United States women's teams, this group has not had much playing time together because of injuries, overseas commitments and the W.N.B.A. season.

Mr. O'Hanlon, the Brookings Institution analyst, criticized Mr. Cheney for not proposing a specific alternative for overseas commitments or enlarging the military.

There are one or two quasi-political poems, in which Mr Larkin scorns an England that abandons its overseas commitments for lack of money, or ruins its countryside.

Like the empires of Venice, Spain, the Netherlands and Austria before us, Britain no longer has an economy large enough to finance our ambitions and overseas commitments.

Europe will be the obvious place for America to cut expensive overseas commitments.Europe has more soldiers than America, but can deploy far fewer of them on overseas operations.

The needs of an expanding population (which grew from 155 million to 179 million during the Eisenhower era) and the country's overseas commitments caused budget deficits during five out of eight years.