Sentence examples for protracted operation from inspiring English sources

Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, tried to draw General Dempsey out on what he saw as a potentially protracted operation.

WASHINGTON — Despite growing calls for the United States to help stop the bloodshed in Syria, senior Pentagon officials are stepping up their warnings that military intervention would be a daunting and protracted operation, requiring at least weeks of exclusively American airstrikes, with the potential for killing vast numbers of civilians and plunging the country closer to civil war.

While it involved a US drone, Whitehall sources told the Guardian that the UK was involved in what was described as a "long, protracted operation".

"You know, we are down 6,000 officers from where we were 10 years ago, so it's difficult to do any sort of protracted operation with people who are working in their regular tour of duty.

The protracted operation was carried out in waters south of the province of Calabria.

"Pentagon Seeks Ideas on Combating Terrorism," read the press release, saying the U.S. "specifically needs help in combating terrorism... conducting protracted operations in remote areas, and developing countermeasures to weapons of mass destruction," and soliciting ideas from any Tom, Dick & Goofball for possible defense contracts.

It's a long, protracted process.

They capture his cities without assaulting them and overthrow his state without protracted operations".

Anything between those two extremes will be the subject of a protracted "spin" operation by the rival camps.California, with 441 delegates, is the ultimate prize: even a narrow victory there will count, in news terms, for a huge amount.

And counselors believe that the rescue operation's protracted nature will complicate the grieving of young children, who already cannot comprehend death's finality.

It also suggested the military phase of the operation could be protracted.