Sentence examples for a cohesive army from inspiring English sources

However anxious the leaders of the MILF to show that they are not terrorists, their followers may well think differently; the organisation is more a confederation of armed bands than a cohesive army.

Yu took command and built a cohesive army.

As a result, they are not a cohesive army ready to do battle for changes that will benefit them.

We must start by training a squad [of a few soldiers] before moving on to an entire regiment, to ensure a cohesive army".

This has increased the pace of defections from what has hitherto been a largely cohesive army.

But either way, it seems that dangerous rivalries are brewing within what used to be known as one of Africa's most disciplined, most cohesive armies.

A cohesive nation whose army seemed to have withdrawn from politics, it adopted a new constitution, drafted in an impeccably consultative process.

Without a cohesive administration and functional army, however, the Libyan government appears unable to reign in the rebels, threatening further disintegration and an intensified fight for the country's natural resources.

Turning Mali's own fractured army into a cohesive and effective force would entail "a huge amount of work," according to Brig.

The word "army" suggests a cohesive force with a command structure.

Without a cohesive state-run police force and army under its control, the new government may not be able to meet in Tripoli without the support of sympathetic militias.