Sentence examples for a sizable force from inspiring English sources

"It was quite a sizable force," said Jalal al-Gallal, a rebel spokesman.

Mark Povinelli, an actor whose small stature belies a sizable force, plays Toulouse-Lautrec.

On entering Italy with a sizable force in September 1267, he was enthusiastically greeted by the Italians.

"There is a sizable force of musicians from across every genre of music who support this movement," organisers said.

Altogether, during the Reconstruction era, scalawags constituted perhaps 20 percent of the white electorate, a sizable force in any election or constitutional convention.

Western officials insist they will maintain a sizable force to support the democratic government; some talk of 25,000 US troops.

The original plan was to send a tank battalion to the Diyala bridge as a feint to draw the Iraqis in and then send over a more sizable force over pontoon bridges to the south.

In Libya, the Islamic State has a fairly sizable force operating on the ground, controlling territory and providing governance and other services.

This is a sizable effect.

Military planners say the United States could deploy a slightly smaller but still sizable force in Iraq by tailoring the replacement troops to the mission now facing the American-led occupation.

Officials said that although the president had no doubt about what large numbers of United States troops could achieve on their own in Afghanistan, he repeatedly asked questions during recent meetings on Afghanistan about whether a sizable American force might undercut the urgency of the preparations of the Afghan forces who are learning to stand up on their own.