Sentence examples for a large standing from inspiring English sources

Without a "large, standing coalition military presence" in the region, one said, there could be no guarantee of deterring him.

The tide of the S-shaped north-south Atlantic basin can be viewed as a single phenomenon that behaves like a large standing wave passing through the basin.

Although spared the horrors of combat, the Dutch had to maintain a large standing army, and mutinies broke out among the soldiers in 1918.

The need for such a large standing army is explained by the United States's leadership role in the Cold War and its need to maintain substantial armed forces in readiness in Western Europe in case of a Soviet invasion.

This much is true: in most European countries there is no obvious equivalent of the American religious right in which a large standing constituency spoils for a fight over hard ethical issues.

After World War II the Soviet Union rose to challenge U.S. political and military power, and the country retained the draft to maintain a large standing army capable of countering potential Soviet aggression.

Somewhat more suave and sophisticated is a larger standing female figure, also of terra cotta, from the late seventh century B.C.

The Commonwealth's military was to be modernized and funding to create a larger standing army was agreed.

For example, urchins may inhibit succession and promote algal communities dominated by a low standing crop of early successional, short turfs while herbivorous fishes promote succession to communities with either a larger standing crop of turfs or with increased abundance of macroalgae [2], [47].

With a larger standing army, the German command might have been more tolerant of medical discharge than the British.

Indeed, simulations showed that, in fluctuating environments, diploid populations maintained higher mean fitness than haploids, despite a larger standing load (Sellis et al. 2011).