Sentence examples for armies fighting from inspiring English sources

I asked if he envisioned rival armies fighting each other.

This deadlock was almost inevitable given that the armies fighting one another were so closely matched in size and capabilities.

"America might make such a red line if in Syria we had two armies fighting each other," he said.

Up through the Second World War, most conflicts were waged between national armies fighting on well-defined battlefields.

Such a situation would be catastrophic for the Western armies fighting to bring peace to this country, vastly complicating the battles already going on in most provinces.

Lt. Col. Mbonisi Gatsheni said 2,000 of an estimated 12,000 soldiers had returned since the foreign armies fighting in Congo began scaling back three months ago.

In fact, Iowa sent thousands of soldiers to fight for the Union against the Confederacy — a treasonous army fighting explicitly to protect the institution of slavery in the South.

But now that he has defected and joined the rebel army fighting Assad, his erstwhile gun-shyness has transformed into a new resolve to fight.

It's a whole army fighting a proxy war.

At 17, she joined the citizens' army fighting the Nazis and became an accomplished sharpshooter.

The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles Raymond Tallis — a one-man army fighting "neuromania".