Sentence examples for support an offensive from inspiring English sources

"We are happy to support an offensive to retake Mosul, but we won't lead it," the Kurdish official told me.

Many neighboring states are willing to support an offensive if it is relatively brief and decisive and if civilian casualties are low.

New bridges are being built and it is expected that the route will ultimately be used to support an offensive to drive the Afghan Taliban from their bastion in North Waziristan.

He arrived in the wake of a major embarrassment -- when the first U.S.-trained battalion of Iraqi troops was ordered to Falluja to support an offensive by the Marines, many of them deserted or refused to fight.

Statements by Prime Minister John Howard have signaled that the country is prepared to give military support to an offensive in Iraq, alarming Australia's neighbors.

The goal of the talks, Pentagon and military officials said, was to guarantee the Iraqis' support for an offensive to quell the insurgency in Falluja should all other attempts to pacify the town fail.

She bombarded German positions west and north of Feodosiya on the nights of 26 28 February in support of an offensive by the 44th Army.

Although the Israeli public has been overwhelmingly supportive of the military offensive, it is unclear how much support a ground offensive would garner.

This wing had been established to support a planned offensive from Darwin into the Netherlands East Indies.

Since the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps alone could not support a large offensive in advance of the railhead, horse- and mule-drawn wagon trains were established.

The Politburo engaged in heated debate over the extent to which the Soviet Union would support a continued offensive by the MPLA in February 1976.