Even as our troops continue to fight in Afghanistan, the tide of war is receding.
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Yet tonight, we take comfort in knowing that the tide of war is receding.
However, the plans were scrapped two years later, as the tide of war changed and the possibility of invasion receded.
So make no mistake, the tide of war is receding, and America is looking ahead to the future that we must build.
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In a televised speech, he said the tide of war was receding, and that Afghan forces would take full control of the country's security by 2014.
After a difficult decade, the tide of war is receding.
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The president said that defense spending would be cut as the tide of war receded, but pledged to maintain critical capabilities in areas such as intelligence gathering, orbital reconnaissance and cyber security.
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The hard lessons learned in places like Tarawa and Guadalcanal served the U.S. well when Marines turned the tide of war in Korea years later by mounting a daring amphibious landing at Inchon, behind enemy lines.
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Although most Americans now think the war was a mistake, polls suggest that Mr McCain's determination to see it through may stand him in better stead with voters than Mr Obama's determination to pull out whatever the consequences, especially since the tide of war seems at last to have shifted firmly in America's favour.
And the rising tide of anti-war sentiment threatens to submerge a slew of Republican senators in Democratic-leaning states, such as Susan Collins (Maine), John Sununu (New Hampshire), Norm Coleman (Minnesota) and Gordon Smith (Oregon).
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The tide of anti-colonialism after the second world war was forcing Europe's imperial powers to grant independence almost everywhere.
Its industrial-growth model has closely resembled Japan's in its post-war boom, rising on the same tide of an expanding workforce and export-led productivity gains.
Though this might seem a terrible toll, it was a trifling price for a critical strategic breakthrough, the last moment of the war when Hitler might credibly have stemmed the tide in the West.
Significantly, considering that Algeria's war was sparked by military intervention against the rising Islamist tide of the early 1990s, the Islamist candidate, Abdallah Jaballah, came a distant third with 5% of the vote.
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