Sentence examples for sustained ground from inspiring English sources

Nor would the military be able to carry out two sustained ground wars at one time, as was required under past national military strategies.

With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.

Iraqi troops say air support was decisive in the fight for Falluja, where up to 1,000 Isis fighters held out for six weeks against a sustained ground assault.

In a shift of doctrine driven by fiscal reality and a deal last summer that kept the United States from defaulting on its debts, Mr. Panetta is expected to outline plans for carefully shrinking the military — and in so doing make it clear that the Pentagon will not maintain the ability to fight two sustained ground wars at once.

Tunnel linings required to resist sustained ground stresses, or which may be subject to deformation associated with seismicity or ground movement at later ages, should be designed with consideration of a possible long-term loss of ductility exhibited by some types of fibre reinforced shotcrete.

Today, Dawes acknowledges that she could not have followed her sustained, ground-breaking path any better than if she'd been led by the hand.

An 82-year-old female sustained a ground level fall after missing a single step while Christmas shopping.

A 47 year-old healthy female sustained a ground level fall from a stepladder in her garage without loss of consciousness.

A central key to sustaining common ground in teams is to catch discrepancies or possible erosions in common ground, and to take preemptive action to avert a potentially disastrous breakdown [ 37, 38].

This methodology can easily be incorporated in the strategy of constructing structural configurations of minimum rotational response, which is the main requirement in the design of structures expected to sustain strong ground motions.

Current US seismic guidelines indicate that ground acceleration of 0.10g or greater is likely to produce plastic structural response, yet they require that an elastic seismic analysis be performed for all multi-span bridges located in regions deemed likely to sustain such ground acceleration.