But the coalition's second largest troop provider, Britain, set a "firm deadline" of 2015 for withdrawing its fighting force, and Spain said its own involvement could be over as soon as 2012.

但是为联军出兵人数第二多的英国，将2015年设定为一个撤出战斗部队的“坚决的最后期限”，西班牙称其军事行动将于2012年结束。

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Over the generations our Order has become a deadly fighting force as well as a bastion for women who sought to forge their own destiny.

经过数代人的努力，姊妹会已经磨练成为一支可怕的战斗团队，而修道院则成为争取命运主权的女性们的大本营。

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As a fighting force, European countries will prove a brittle cane on which to lean in operations abroad.

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Another reason for American caution is that the usefulness as a fighting force of the Northern Alliance's mixture of Tajiks, Uzbeks and others, though greater than many sceptics had believed two months ago, may now be drawing to an end.

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Unorthodox from the start, the SAS was conceived as a commando force to operate behind enemy lines in North Africa, where the British were fighting Field Marshall Rommel's highly-skilled Afrika Korps.

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