Sentence examples for us achievements from inspiring English sources

"Right now, it appears to be the goal is to use minimal American force, primarily air power, to contain Isis and hand the problem off to Iraqi and Kurdish forces," said Peter Mansoor, a retired army colonel who served as executive officer to General David Petraeus during the 2007-2008 troop surge, a rare period of tactical US achievements in Iraq.

We already had a foretaste of this a couple of weeks ago, when Vice President Joe Biden visited Baghdad to laud US achievements.

No one can deny us those achievements".

It is important to appreciate this because many studies were required to teach us that achievement of optimal gas exchange is not necessarily associated with the best outcomes in patients.

They will help us solve hard problems, and they will push us to greater achievements.

And it's important to distinguish between works of art that are close to us because they arouse our deepest personal feelings and those that are close to us because their achievements, splendid though they may be, are more modest, more conceivable they're on a plane of accomplishment that doesn't surpass our conception, doesn't make us feel small in their shadow.

So we are building assessment routines that ask retrospectively not just what was achieved, but which achievements surprised us.

People often write in calling for us to recognise achievements of teachers, NHS staff, doctors and others, despite politicians endlessly reorganising their working days.

But Johnson's claim that "it's the loyalty and discipline of the rest of us" that created achievements such as the NHS and the Open University is disingenuous.

In fact, the top US CEOs just broke income records: and yet they don't face the same indignation; these men may even be dear to us for their achievements.

Some aspects of our lives are conveniently forgotten or glossed over if they make us look bad in our own eyes, and we may accept others' white lies as the truth about us, inflate our achievements beyond their merit, and so forth.