Sentence examples for active armies from inspiring English sources

And compared with many other politically active armies, Turkey's has played a disinterested role.

Those countries have a history of civil war and relatively active armies, while Kenya is known for its mild foreign policy and is one of the few nations in the region that has never been led by a military man.

Since 1947 over 30 different ethnic armies have fought the Burmese military for autonomy on some scale, so I decided to focus on the three most active armies: the Kachin, Karen, and the Shan.

It is not clear if the United Nations would appoint an active army general to the post.

"What if an influencer, or a brand, or an organization, could go from having passive followers to an active army?

Entering what was still an active army base, I felt immediately out of place, a civilian American woman alone among a stream of young male recruits.

The soldiers will spend the next week at Fort Dix, getting physicals and being debriefed and processed out of the active army and back into the National Guard.

But, if there were a real tyranny in America, a lot of good ol' boys with shotguns would have no chance against the secret services and an active army bent on its enforcement".

"The current active army is not large enough and the marine corps is not large enough for the kinds of missions they are being asked to perform," he said.

The term cadet arose in France, where it was applied to younger sons of the nobility who gained commissioned rank after being attached for a time without pay to active army units.

During World War II he served in the North African and Italian campaigns, after which he was recalled from active army duties in 1952 to lead the 1953 British Everest expedition.