Sentence examples for scale of troop from inspiring English sources

The timeframe may reflect continuing tensions between Cameron and the military over the scale of troop reductions.

He is also said to have differed sharply with Karl Eikenberry, the US ambassador in Kabul, over the scale of troop reinforcements.

"So, China needs to maintain a certain scale of troops, which is completely for a purpose of defense".

His secretary of defence, career civil servant Robert Gates, recently announced reinforcements on the scale of 30,000 troops.

All this is an argument for doing considerably less than what we are doing, by transitioning rapidly (by mid- or late 2012) to a relatively small, sustainable, strategically-warranted deployment, one I would estimate to be on a scale of 10,000-25,000 troops.

WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to announce his decision on the scale and pace of troop withdrawals from Afghanistan in a speech from the White House at 8 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday evening.

Despite Pakistan's insistence on talks and a scaling back of troops, India has no intention of either fully demobilizing or joining negotiations anytime soon, officials here say.

More recently, only a short period of time passed between President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and the scale-up of troops in Afghanistan.

On 3 April the squadrons were issued Hotchkiss machine-guns, on a scale of one per troop, which replaced the regiment's three Lewis guns.

State TV played down the scale of the violence, saying troops were merely hunting down "terrorists".

Waterloo, his harrowing final loss, looks no different from any of the production's dozen or so martial moments: wide shots of DeMille-scale troop formations, close-ups of uniformed torsos with bloody perforations.