Sentence examples for armed troop of from inspiring English sources

After reaching Allahabad they continued overland, accompanied by an armed troop of sepoys.

Much like the light armed troops of antiquity and the crossbowmen who accompanied the Swiss Haufen, harquebusiers would open the action and then retreat behind the pikemen as the latter came to close quarters with the enemy.

But following the disputed Ivoirian presidential election last November, it became a violent battleground between armed troops of competing supporters.

For both May and Amber Rudd one major reason for their anxiety will be that the sight of armed troops on the streets will provoke accusations of moves towards a French-style "militarised police state" and inevitable speculation that in the middle of a general election campaign the decision comes with political overtones as well as from operational necessity.

There are deeply disturbing reports of civilians suffering abuse at the hands of armed troops on all sides, including financial exploitation, abduction, rape, and murder.

— The all-white University of Alabama was integrated today [June 11], but it took the presence of armed troops on the campus to budge Gov. George C. Wallace from his last-ditch stand in the doorway of the school.

The use of the word "war" has now become commonplace in France, as has the sight of heavily armed troops on beaches, in city centres, in airports and at railway stations; everywhere now is the front line.

I propose that President Bush call on Congress to repeal the military draft registration law immediately and that Congress call on Mr. Bush to get all United States armed troops out of Europe before the end of 1991.

Last week, under strong political pressure to act to curb the independence movements that threaten to break up Indonesia, Mr. Wahid sharply departed from his previous policy and dispatched thousands of heavily armed troops to the jungles of Irian Jaya, where some of the two million residents, members of dozens of indigenous tribes, marked the anniversary of the 1961 declaration.

They may have shifted to the airport when their plans were accelerated by the arrests of co-conspirators, or because of Belgium's deployment of armed troops to guard its nuclear facilities.

series on PBS, puts the killing in the context of geopolitics: the presence of the Marines, in the first deployment of armed troops to the border since 1914, had begun during the administration of the first President Bush as part of the war on drugs.