Sentence examples for troop issue from inspiring English sources

Republican senators played down the troop issue, and noted that American forces were taking the fight to Baath Party loyalists, foreign fighters and criminals.

A6 Troop Issue Ignored in Tokyo Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan focused in a meeting on Japan's financial contributions to a stabilization effort in Iraq.

The effect of General Petraeus's recommendations would be to begin troop reductions somewhat earlier than many experts had anticipated, while deferring deliberations on more fundamental troop issues.

The President revealed that he had already had 'discussions' with Brown on the troops issue and was 'appreciative' that Brown was in frequent touch with the Americans about 'what he and his military are thinking'.

Kellie Pickler, "American Idol" finalist and frequent USO performer, is gracing the cover of Maxim magazine's "Salute to the Troops" issue.

A couple of specific examples of dramatization include a BBC story from September 24, 2007 which proclaimed the "Burmese military threatens monks," and from London's Telegraph on September 27, in which we learned that "Burma troops issue 'extreme action' ultimatum".

Still, the rebels have offered their own far-fetched claims, like mass rapes by loyalist troops issued tablets of Viagra.

According to the fellow parents and grandparents in Jennifer's troop, the issue of her sexual orientation never came up — until now.

Mr. Rumsfeld said that Army planners were still trying to resolve the troop rotation issue and that questions about illegal weapons were the purview of the Iraq Survey Group, headed by a former weapons inspector, David Kay.

That line seems likely to appeal to reporters covering the Iraq troop withdrawal issue.

Of the 185,000 troops at issue, the Army had a vast majority, 136,000 soldiers, who served an average of seven extra months, said Lt. Col. Les A. Melnyk, a Defense Department spokesman.