Sentence examples for troops at a time from inspiring English sources

"A British prime minister has had to criticise his own troops at a time when they are serving in Afghanistan.

That's also freed up Nigerian troops at a time they're also making some headway with procurement of helicopters, armoured personnel carriers and thermal imaging equipment that allows them to attack camps at night".

Mr. Biden's visit came amid grumbling by some Iraqi officials that American policy in Iraq has lately lacked focus, as the United States withdraws large numbers of troops at a time of political dysfunction and daily violence.

Beside the joint military exercises that occur annually, the United States keeps about 600 troops at a time in the Philippines, many of them trainers assisting in counterterrorism efforts in the south.

While American commanders in Iraq have not asked for more troops, the Pentagon's detailed planning, disclosed by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and his senior military and civilian aides, is the strongest indication that the recent decision to delay for 90 days the return of 20,000 troops at a time of intense fighting might not be the temporary measure officials had described.

But his speech amounted to a vigorous defense of the continued presence of American troops at a time when some public opinion polls have reported that a majority of Iraqis want American, British and other foreign troops to leave the country immediately.

Due to heavy Ottoman machine-gun fire, from a point 800 yards from the Ottoman position the attack was slowed; one troop at a time advanced under cover from New Zealand machine guns.

Then drop a troop at a time and lure them away from the enemy defenses and bring them to the side.

You send one troop at a time inside enemy infested woods, they will have to think in order to get to their objective or checkpoint.

Yet he was also an early advocate of increasing troop levels at a time when Mr. Bush was resistant, and was withering, from 2004 on, about Donald H. Rumsfeld, then defense secretary, and what Mr. McCain called Mr. Rumsfeld's "whack a mole" strategy of moving American troops from one violence-plagued part of Iraq to another.

Mr. Bush has had to contend not only with Pentagon reluctance to commit substantial numbers of troops to Liberia at a time when the military is already stretched thin, but also with nervousness among Republicans in Congress about putting American lives on the line in Africa.