Sentence examples for the trigger line from inspiring English sources

Moderation is not in fashion along the "trigger line".

Efforts to co-operate along the trigger line can seem to make matters worse.

Edginess along the "trigger line", as it has become known, is now the biggest threat to Iraq's stability.

And with violence growing along the "trigger line" separating Kurdish and Arab territory, it wasn't clear how long the issue could wait.

The Kurds are doing better than other Iraqis but their boom would not long survive a war along the "trigger line".

Although the rest of Iraq has been a lot quieter, violence along the Arab-Kurdish border (the "trigger line") has been rising.

One incident he described took place in the early days of the war in Iraq when rules of engagement were more permissive than they are now:  "Many times, at the trigger lines, they waited and waited before they fired, putting themselves at risk with cars skidding to a halt right in the middle of their position.

In my book, "The Untold War," from which the Stone essay draws, I write of an interview I conducted with a Marine colonel who told me how devastated his troops became when Iraqi children were injured or killed when cars ran the "trigger lines" at checkpoints.

The President probably could be less sure to be able to reach the submarines and cancel their orders to attack if any Soviet missile crossed the radar trigger line in Northern Canada.

The so-called trigger line dividing Kurdish-controlled territory in the north from the rest of Iraq is more and more like a frontier defended on both sides by armed force.

The beefing-up of the civilian contractor presence guarding the largest US embassy on the planet (some 80 football pitches large) and its new consulates in Kirkuk (where US-Iraqi forces joint patrol the ominously named "trigger line") and Mosul by some 7,000 personnel equipped with MRAPs and Blackhawks is smart politics.