Sentence examples for position military from inspiring English sources

MANILA — The United States is negotiating an agreement to allow it to position military equipment and rotate more personnel into the Philippines while avoiding the contentious issue of re-establishing American bases in the country, according to officials from both countries.

As such, a central element of the blueprint for the all-volunteer force was to position military service as a means to advance and accelerate post-service educational and employment opportunities that might otherwise be out of reach for many Americans.

The volatility of the attacks led the Soviet government to position military units in the Armenian capital of Yerevan and along the five-kilometer gap between the Armenian border and Nagorno-Karabakh.

But the French had positioned military contingents near Mali, with deployments in Senegal, Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast, for example.

For breaching fortified positions, military engineers of the classical age designed assault towers that remain a wonder to modern engineers.

Gorbachev impressed Thatcher by the forcefulness with which he put the case against Star Wars, the US plan for positioning military hardware in space.

Unlike in 2008, when Russian troops entered neighboring Georgia, there were no immediate signs that the United States or other nations were positioning military forces or equipment in response.

2176, substituted "Officers serving in certain intelligence positions: military status; exclusion from distribution and strength limitations; pay and allowances" for "Exclusion: officers serving in certain intelligence positions" in item 528.

Though Mr. Panetta's revised budget calls for adding back at least 2,200 guard positions, military officials said the Air Force will not have to reduce the active-duty force beyond the reductions already envisioned in the plan.

Brant positioned military and civilian marching bands as well as a steel-drum band around the campus' reflecting pool.

"It strengthens the relative position of military commissions, and it separately strengthens the likelihood of continuing to rely on military detention" without trial, he said.