Sentence examples for substantial troop from inspiring English sources

A more plausible strategy, devoted to managing as successfully as possible the informal sectarian partition of Iraq which is already well under way, has again been postponed, along with substantial troop reductions.

In recent weeks, American negotiators in Baghdad concluded that it would be impossible to obtain that protection, essentially scuttling any chance of a substantial troop presence there next year.

Though his deputy said Mr. Hadley was chiefly expressing support, one option widely discussed before his trip, according to American and Iraqi officials, was a substantial troop increase in Baghdad by both countries.

No matter who is president, the United States will still find itself deeply enmeshed in the affairs of Afghanistan, even if in the next few years there are substantial troop withdrawals from Iraq.

But administration officials said they did not expect major changes in the Afghan strategy to emerge from the review, suggesting that the White House would not move swiftly to resolve the tension between the military's pleas for patience and the demands from Democrats for substantial troop withdrawals starting next summer.

Gates made a more political point: that if there were no prospects for gradual but substantial troop withdrawals, popular support for the war would evaporate, and the next president would probably pull out all the troops as quickly as possible, resulting in Iraq's potential collapse.

When Miranda attacked that morning, Coburg's first reaction was to draw substantial troops from his center to reinforce his right flank.

Administration officials indicated that they now planned to place more emphasis on focused clandestine counterterrorism operations of the kind that killed Osama bin Laden, which the president cited as Exhibit A in the case for a substantial American troop reduction.

Given that Bush's 2006 budget proposal does not provide any money whatsoever to finance activities in Iraq and Afghanistan, and substantial U.S. troop numbers are likely to remain in Iraq for the next 12 months to 18 months, at least one large supplemental in fiscal 2006 can be expected.

Republican critics of the administration blame Obama for ISIL's rise because he failed to maintain a substantial American troop presence in Iraq after December 2011.

Unlike their Spanish, Portuguese and French competitors, these colonisers possessed no religious orders, no substantial shock troops of professionally single males who could compile masses of information on indigenous peoples and devote themselves full-time to converting them to Christianity.