Sentence examples for protracted operations from inspiring English sources

"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.

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

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.

It's a long, protracted process.

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.

But the reality is that this may be a protracted operation". Brian Buckley, Durham County Council's strategic highways manager, said: "The Banks Group has lawful authority to start work on the site, which involves moving various utilities located under the verge and widening the road to form an entrance to the site.

The situation was further complicated when an internal review initiated by incoming Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel concluded that since the U.S. would no longer be postured for protracted stability operations in places like Iraq, the Army should shrink further to 450,000.

Recurring shocks and insecurity have created pockets of protracted relief operations that raise concerns about dependency on external assistance.