Sentence examples for a force of thousands from inspiring English sources

Mr. Somchai, the prime minister, is faced with a wrenching decision: whether to order the airports cleared of protesters, an operation that would require a force of thousands.

During the fighting in Jenin, home to about 14,000 Palestinian refugees, some 200 Palestinian gunmen battled for 10 days with a force of thousands of Israeli soldiers equipped with tanks, armored bulldozers, and antiaircraft guns.

For days, military leaders in Benghazi have said they are preparing to assemble a force of thousands to conduct a final assault on Tripoli; some of the officials have even promised to send planes to bomb Colonel Qaddafi's fortified compound, Bab al-Aziziya.

He assembled a force of thousands of local townspeople, sheriff's deputies, and national guardsmen.

To continue in the current direction will result in a fighting force of 12th century knights that require a squire to stand us back up when we fall off our Humvee.

As the brigade had no heavy or mechanized forces and only a few Humvees and an artillery battery, heavier forces were attached to it in the form of two companies of M113 Armored Personnel Carriers, M1 Abrams tanks, and M2 Bradleys from a task force of 1st Battalion, 63rd Armor, which was attached to the brigade.

With the 77th Infantry Division, the 81st Infantry Division and 98th Infantry Division, a force of 79,000 men, IX Corps would serve as the Sixth Army's reserve force during the initial invasion.

On the 17th, a force of anti-Castro exiles, trained by the C.I.A., invaded communist Cuba at the Bay of Pigs — a fiasco within 36 hours.

Captain John Campbell assembled a force of 34 regulars from the 26th Foot (the entire garrison in Montreal), 120 Canadien and 80 English militia, 20 British Indian agents, and a few Indians, and led them out to face Allen's force.

In the early hours of 9 October 1917, a force of 88 men from the 10th Battalion carried out a raid on German positions in what became known as the "Mystery of Celtic Wood"; 32 men were killed during the raid, and a further 37 were wounded.

The group is carrying the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, a force of 2,100 marines equipped with helicopters, amphibious assault vehicles and artillery for speedy, small-scale attacks.