Sentence examples for prompt commanders from inspiring English sources

Meeting with reporters to discuss the disciplinary action, General Amos was asked specifically whether the inquiry and the punishments would prompt commanders in Afghanistan to become overly cautious — emphasizing security over the mission.

If requirements prompt commanders to order fighting forces and weapons for speedy deployment to a war zone, it takes airlift, and General Handy said his flying fleet might not be able to meet the demand.

That has prompted commanders to begin to expand the program to include neighboring roads as well.

Deadly ambushes of enrollment officers in Sullivan and Rush counties prompted commanders to send troops to arrest the culprits and finish the enrollments.

By the time Davis reached Georgia, fears that his large escort would draw the attention of numerous Union patrols crisscrossing the countryside in search of him prompted commanders to act.

Ban is one of almost 200,000 primarily Nuer refugees who have ended up in Ethiopia since December 2013, when attempts by Kiir to arrest political rivals for coup plotting – including his Nuer former deputy, Riek Machar – prompted commanders to rebel.

But even these qualified early results and observations offer new insights, prompting commanders in the field to fine-tune tactics and training, pushing the Pentagon to replenish inventories of crucial bombs and driving defense contractors to accelerate just about every program that could aid in the war.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld demanded that the invasion force be kept as small as possible, prompting his commanders to build an attack plan based on speed and surprise.

A14 Hidden assailants launched another attack on soldiers in Falluja, killing one American and wounding five others, and prompting American commanders to increase the military presence in the town, which has been a center of unrest in Iraq.

The steep rise in these convoy and checkpoint attacks — which the military calls "escalation of force incidents" — has prompted military commanders to issue new troop guidelines in recent weeks that include soliciting local Afghan village and tribal elders and other leaders for help preventing convoy and checkpoint shootings.

Truce talks between Iraq's interim government and Moktada al-Sadr's rebels collapsed Saturday, prompting American commanders to prepare new battle plans for breaking Mr. Sadr's grip on this holy city and the Imam Ali mosque, the Middle East's most sacred Shiite shrine.