General Jodice said a mix of African mercenaries and Qaddafi loyalist troops have successfully sustained command-and-control and supply lines in staunch defense of the cities, despite a NATO air campaign that is now in its seventh month and a multipronged ground assault in Surt by anti-Qaddafi fighters.
More than other allies, Britain has displayed both the will to join the United States in the initial phase of military operations and the wherewithal to quickly deploy, sustain and command its own forces.
The Harvard Crimson argued in 1959 that its fragmentary nature "contributes to the film's great weakness: its general diffuseness, its inability to command sustained attention.
He would eventually be back in Afghanistan on his sixth deployment the following January, but he was not overseas on the day Costello, who was now under his command, sustained his own injury.
While it was an attractive and capable device — with a whiz-bang feature or two, like touchless voice commands — sustained price cuts indicate that it has sold relatively poorly; in Google's most recent quarterly-earnings report, Motorola was responsible for roughly a quarter-billion dollars in losses.
In the absence of any sustained critique, Robert Edwards commanded the ethical discussion of IVF himself.
After major offensives since mid-November with much of the powerful weaponry available to the United States command, including sustained artillery barrages, aerial bombing and airborne assaults with large numbers of helicopters, American commanders have reported an increasing tendency to attack "soft" targets.
I feasted repeatedly on the way the dancers' torsos easily bent sideways, this way or that; on the expressive detail of fingers (used both individually and together), hands and arms; on the strikingly fluent command of sustained turned-out leg-bend deep squats (like ballet's grand pliés); and on the springing sideways jumps with feet tucked up together (like pas de chat).
A coalition with a gun to its head cannot hope to fix all that.The limitations of statuteReform can come about only under a sustained and resolute government that commands a popular mandate.
He has also commanded much attention having sustained injuries break-dancing, falling off a scooter and being knocked over when a female fan jumped into his arms.
The hearings (Ms. Brooks appeared separately) provided a gripping spectacle of executives who once commanded unassailable political power enduring sustained questioning from lawmakers enjoying a newfound confidence.
