Sentence examples for a formidable army from inspiring English sources

He manages to escape and frees other slaves, forming a formidable army of rebels.

Southern Sudan has a formidable army of tens of thousands of soldiers, including many trained by the United States.

In Manchuria, Lin Biao was forging a formidable army of veteran cadres from northern China and natives of Manchuria, now well equipped with Japanese weapons.

But when you put enough of them together and under the control of a few people who know what they are doing, they can become a formidable army".

The General Accounting Office recently estimated that 52percentt of the nation's 1.6 million farm workers are here illegally, a formidable army whose presence openly violates American laws.

No matter how solemn the binding oaths of blood brotherhood might be, because steppe horsemen had always followed their own tribal leaders to war, any quarrel among chiefs could immediately dissolve a formidable army into its original warring fragments.

Mr. Sharif isn't afraid to stare down the country's formidable army — a fearlessness that led to his ouster from an earlier stint as prime minister.

He is also believed to command a formidable private army, and Saturday's operation was carried out under conditions of military-style secrecy that ended only when Mr. Amirov was put on a helicopter bound for Moscow.

This is a battle that the climate-change protesters are losing, because opponents in the shires have mobilised a formidable activist army of their own, and they're objecting on environmental grounds: that the windmills are a massive eyesore.

Moreover, ISIS is not a formidable conventional army, having only 40,000 to 50,000 troops, no air force, and no navy.

A 15-day strike by the country's formidable army of dubbers means several shows, including sitcom Parenthood and fantasy cop drama Grimm, have been broadcast in their original language with Italian subtitles.