Sentence examples for armed unit from inspiring English sources

Leibstandarte placed its reconnaissance battalion in the gap to provide some flank protection, but the lightly armed unit could not possibly check a determined tank attack.

OSLO (Reuters) - The near-sinking of a police boat and a decision to await a specially armed unit from Oslo some 45 km (28 miles) away delayed the Norwegian police response to an island where a gunman killed 86 people.

An armed unit took over, ordering him to stop.

"This was an armed unit moving through the desert".

Mr Whittam asked him why only one armed unit was sent to the scene.

"An armed unit was arrested trying to take over the Presidential Palace," the statement read.

The judge also cited evidence from the state intelligence agency that "armed units of the pro-Iranian armed group Hezbollah" were also involved, though no Hezbollah member was mentioned in the indictment.

We did not use force from the outset… Armed units of the Libyan army have had to fight small armed al-Qaida bands.

The brigade then dispatches heavily armed units with tracking devices.

The Y.P.G. fought back, deploying small, lightly armed units throughout Kobanî's streets.

Not long ago, Iraqi opposition movements and their armed units controlled territory in northern and southern Iraq.