But the drawing down of principle isn't sustainable, and now there's a cash flow problem--money flowing into the Highway Trust Fund is projected to drop.
And that's why he has been very clear in putting forward a strategy that included the plussing-up, the surging of forces, in order to execute the mission, and the drawing down, the slow withdrawal, the gradual withdrawal, the paced withdrawal of U.S. forces as we transfer lead authority over to the Afghan security forces.
So it was customers waiting for the iPad mini and drawing down the third generation.
"I still get a lump in my throat when I walk into the drawing room, come down the steps into the drawing room, " he says.
Yet the U.S. military appears to be doing the opposite, drawing down both its footprint and objectives south of the U.S. border.
This would enable the Bush administration to declare a kind of victory (for its latest strategy, if not for the war itself) and to begin drawing down the troop levels soon.
Casey also says the United States should continue to focus on drawing down the number of American forces in the country.
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As the Americans were building up in Baghdad earlier this year, the British were drawing down from about 7, 100 to 5, 500 troops.
The United States has withdrawn a substantial number of troops and we are in the process of drawing down further as we hand over security lead to Afghan forces.
The result was that, as the Americans were building up in Iraq in 2007, the British were drawing down (ostensibly to give Iraqis space to find their own solutions).
In the service of that overarching goal, we have helped build up Afghan security forces, helped stabilize portions of the country, and we are in the process of drawing down our forces as we turn over more and more responsibility to Afghan security forces.
So there are -- and he has taken enormous steps towards overcoming a lot of those challenges, principally the economic ones, but also rebalancing our foreign policy and reestablishing American leadership around the world and drawing down our troops in Iraq -- 100, 000 American troops have been drawn down from Iraq -- and getting a policy towards Afghanistan that can achieve our goals there.
At a Monday briefing, David Bauer, the group's senior vice president for government relations, noted that in reauthorizing the last round of highway spending, Congress opted against raising taxes in favor drawing down the Highway Trust Fund balance.
There was a sense that perhaps the momentum was moving towards a position where U.S. troops could start drawing down in the fall.
And they sure as heck aren't doing enough to stabilize the housing market by drawing down principals and placing a moratorium on foreclosures.
We are in now a phase of drawing down the surge forces as we begin the transition to Afghan security lead that will reach a culmination in 2014.
In recent days there has been much discussion about energy, with each of you mapping out sharply contrasting positions concerning drawing down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and opening up part of the Alaska National Wildlife Arctic Reserve to drilling for oil and gas.
President Barack Obama's plan calls for the U.S. to begin drawing down its 100, 000 troops in the country in July, but Mr. Obama and North Atlantic Treaty Organization commanders haven't specified the speed and extent of the pullout.
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Even the button itself is refreshed: you can now hold down the button while drawing gestures on the screen to access features like the Quick Command tool (we'll cover this later) and a few other navigational abilities.
Additionally, you can now copy specific parts of the screen with Easy Clip, which is activated by holding down the button and drawing around the area you want to clip.
And I think the expectation on the part of both ourselves and our partners in the coalition is that as the Afghans increase their capability, then we can move to more challenging parts of the country and at the same time all of us begin drawing down our forces, again, based on conditions on the ground.
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We have been drawing down from the surge-force level already and will continue that process.
It is understood the teams and the FIA are drawing closer to a solution, with the clock counting down to the May 29 deadline for entries.
He says he pleaded with the United States to wait before drawing down troop levels to 50, 000.
Both counties are ahead of the schedule leading to 2012 in drawing down their stocks, he said.
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They have indeed been influential, drawing the attention and even admiration down the ages of philosophers as diverse as Hegel, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
"The majority of senators believe the time is now to start drawing down U.S. forces, not just to pre-surge levels but beyond them, and to limit the mission of those remaining to fight al Qaeda, train Iraqis and help protect the borders, " he said.
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