"maintain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But he said Iraq's new government must agree to any decision to maintain troops there for the long haul.
- Instead, he appears to favor a policy of cantonment, which would allow him to maintain troops if they are sequestered in special military barracks.
- We both have better things to do with our young men and women than to maintain troops in a Europe that is finding its own destiny.
- Reserve forces cost about 25 to 80 percent of what the military spends to maintain comparable active-duty troops.
- The French also maintain troops in the neighboring Central African Republic.
- Most disbanded their native armies, instead maintaining British troops within their states to protect them from attack.
- This will help towards satisfying one of the main goals of the new strategy: to maintain American troops and interest in Europe.
- Meanwhile, the city faced major expenses to maintain its fortifications and armed troops.
- The war planners "misjudged the success of containment" - the existing policy of trade sanctions and maintaining troops in the area.
- He said he would make it clear that "we do not have long-term designs to maintain bases and troops in Iraq."
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