Sentence examples for To be massed from inspiring English sources

Although the remaining Qaeda forces are often said to be massed around Khost, the area is huge, cavernous and concealing.

(c) Smoke balls, to be massed in the trenches before an advance, and to be used if the wind is in a favourable quarter.

Officers estimated that perhaps three to four times that number of hard-core insurgents are in Falluja, meaning that an American-Iraqi force much larger than 5,000 troops is likely to be massed.

At the time of the first Bush presidency, Colin L. Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and now secretary of state, prevailed with the Powell Doctrine that "overwhelming force" needed to be massed to defeat an entrenched Iraqi enemy in Kuwait.

They said she alone would choose the timing and nature of the action, adding that it was likely to be carried out using a minimum of force at a time of day when demonstrators were not likely to be massed in the Little Havana neighborhood.

The insurgents are currently said to be massed in the Gul Tepa district on the southern outskirts of the city.

General Hassan's video showed military vehicles said to be massing nearby.

More than 20,000 Taliban fighters are thought to be massing in Kandahar, though their numbers have dwindled with defections.

Rebel forces in Aleppo city would far outnumber 2,000 [Hezbollah troops reported to be massing outside the city].

Male laughter and certainty seems to be massing similarly at various tables as daylight eases from the sylvan retreat.

19th century The Industrial Revolution allows timelines to be mass-produced.