Sentence examples for surging orders from inspiring English sources

[C13.] Economics of Fighting Terrorism Given the nature of the conflict with terrorism, the economy is not likely to be revived by the developments that fueled previous wartime booms, like surging orders for tanks and airplanes or demand for workers to replace those who go off to fight.

The "surge," ordered by President Bush in early 2007, sparked a vociferous debate in the United States.

About 68,000 American troops remain in Afghanistan now that the troop surge ordered by the Obama administration in 2010 has ended.

As a senator, Mr. Hagel became a vocal critic of the Iraq war, and during his confirmation fight he was challenged by Republican senators about his opposition to the troop surge ordered by PresidentGeorge W. Bush.

In his announcement on June 22, Mr. Obama said American troop levels would be cut by 10,000 this year and 23,000 by September 2012, effectively reversing the surge ordered by Mr. Obama in 2009 that has been credited with blunting the momentum of the Taliban.

During a three-day visit to Afghanistan, Admiral Mullen also met with commanders and troops across the south and southwest, a focus of the troop "surge" ordered by President Obama.

What stopped the violence at that time was the combination of the troop surge, ordered by President Bush, and the so-called Sunni Awakening of tribal insurgents, who turned their guns on Al Qaeda instead of the Americans.

Stephen J. Hadley, who was Mr. Bush's national security adviser, said the current transition was due to the surge ordered by the former president and opposed by Mr. Obama when he was a senator.

The mission peaked in 2010 with a surge ordered by Obama to root the insurgents out of strategically important regions, notably in the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, where the Taliban had its capital from 1996 to 2001.

As of Thursday, there were two US bases and less than 4,000 US troops in Iraq — a dramatic drop from the roughly 500 military installations and as many as 170,000 troops during the surge ordered by President George W. Bush in 2007, when violence and raging sectarianism gripped the country.

As Mr. Gensler was speaking, former Senator Chuck Hagel was parked at the front of a hearing room in Washington, where he faced demands that he repent of his doubts about the wisdom of the Iraq invasion in 2003, and his opposition to a troop surge ordered by President George W. Bush in 2007.