Sentence examples for transitional force from inspiring English sources
A month after taking office, he said the combat mission would end by August 31, 2010, with a transitional force of up to fifty thousand soldiers remaining in Iraq until the end of 2011 at the latest.
The militias, Mr. Barzani said, could provide a transitional force until tens of thousands of Iraqi police officers and a new Iraqi army were ready to assume the task.
"As agreed to with the Iraqi government, we will maintain a transitional force until we remove all our troops from Iraq by the end of next year," the president said.
He was right, too, to give warning that America could suffer more casualties in the coming year because it is leaving behind a transitional force till the end of 2011.What has America achieved by its intervention, if anything?
On August 18 , 2010 twoweeks ahead of schedule the last combat brigade withdrew from Iraq; 50,000 U.S. soldiers remained in Iraq to act as a transitional force.
As I have long said, we will retain a transitional force to carry out three distinct functions: training, equipping, and advising Iraqi security forces as long as they remain non-sectarian; conducting targeted counter-terrorism missions; and protecting our ongoing civilian and military efforts within Iraq.
Such concepts should be considered in the perspective of current perturbations and transitional forces effecting the cost of noncompliance.
Those "transitional forces" will leave by 2011 in accordance with a strategic agreement negotiated by President George W. Bush before he left office.
Gen. Petraeus was the commander of US transitional forces [MNSTC-I] in 2004-2005, in charge of training, arming and organizing Iraq's military and police forces.
We must pay tribute to the U.S. servicemen and women who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and transitional forces in Operation New Dawn in Iraq.
Recruiters for the secret transitional government force capitalize on fears of al-Shabaab, along with many young Somalis' idealism about rebuilding their country.
