The charity has a "substantial" army of more than 25,000 volunteers, but Mr Southworth would love to have 10,000 more.
With ministers having pledged not to commit British "boots on the ground", his initiative proposed vetting and training a substantial army of moderate Syrian rebels at bases in Turkey and Jordan.
Xerxes then retreated, leaving his general Mardonius with a substantial army to finish off the Greeks the following year.
(The Kachin have a substantial army that has battled government troops in recent months, underscoring the instability in the area).
Juba had to divide his substantial army of infantry, cavalry, and elephants because his kingdom had been invaded from the west by Caesar's ally Bocchus, king of Mauretania, and an Italian adventurer, Publius Sittius.
Thought to be dead by his substantial army of followers in South Africa – one of the few territories that embraced the cult figure – a search eventually led a pair of intrepid reporters to a barren house in Detroit, where the singer-cum-bricklayer resides to this day.
In the course of the anti-Japanese war, the communists broke up a substantial portion of their army into small units and sent them behind the enemy lines to serve as nuclei for guerrilla forces that effectively controlled vast areas of the countryside, stretching between the cities and communication lines occupied by the invader.
If she wins, it goes without saying that she will not be the Republican Party's senator: a substantial chunk of Linda's army consists of Democrats.Mrs Smith is extreme, admittedly.
The forces represent a substantial fraction of Russia's 270,000-strong army, and they cannot indefinitely maintain the high state of readiness they have been in since early March, not least because it is now the time of year when conscripts at the end of their term have to be sent home, and new ones trained.Ukraine's armed forces are, by comparison, small, ill-equipped and out of position.
In total, Henry's army was around 5,000 strong, a substantial portion of which was made up by the recruits picked up in Wales.
The Syrian army, which has been on a war footing with Israel for decades, had deployed a substantial part of its land forces and artillery in southern Syria and in the Golan Heights and built elaborate defenses against Israel.
