Sentence examples for a meager force from inspiring English sources

A weaker defender can inflict much punishment with only a meager force fighting from the rubble, provided they fight to the death.

In contrast to that meager force, Iran enjoys a position of influence over Syria's 100,000-man paramilitary National Defense Force (NDF) and more than 60 Shia militias, which in total likely number more than 30,000 men.

In February, the United States (along with Canada and France) organized a regime change in Haiti and then withdrew its forces, leaving a meager Brazil-led force to pick up where it left off.

The team will be concerned about the effect of a troop build-up in southern Afghanistan across from Balochistan, where Pakistan has meager forces to defend a long and unpopulated border.

At a recent meeting of opposition military commanders in southern Turkey, none showed up from the meager forces around Tartus.

Campus housing is meager, forcing most out-of-town students into apartments that are undersized and overpriced.

By the same token, the meager forces of the three republics could easily be overwhelmed by superior Russian ones, leaving the rest of NATO to decide whether and in what fashion to confront a Russian assault on member nations.

Despite intensified American military activity in the north, there have been few indications that anything but a meager assault against Taliban forces in the region could begin soon.

Here, for a meager income, women and children were forced to endure the most sickening exhalations as they stripped the leaves.

And after much cajoling and promises of future bounty, there had been a meager "I'm sorry" from my little force of nature to his playmate and host.

Instead, he was forced to cash out for a meager $295,000.