Sentence examples for armies to confront from inspiring English sources
Training national armies to confront terrorist threats certainly makes sense.
Soon thereafter, provincial officials, feeling threatened, raised guerrilla armies to confront the French.
His first big gamble, deploying the army to confront drug-trafficking gangs, is also looking shakier.
"The government had not sufficiently prepared the army to confront the rebellion," Mr. Dramé said in an interview.
On the surface, the proposal is attractive — beef up a "real" army to confront extremists and persuade the militias to disarm and integrate.
In 1847, for example, when General Antonio López de Santa Anna was raising an army to confront Zachary Taylor, he planned on drawing about a fifth of his troops from the states of Chihuahua, Durango and Zacatecas.
Yet it admits that its lightly armed men had run out of ammunition.Some among Mr Assad's diverse opponents advocate building a well-equipped and organised rebel army to confront the regime.
It was set back first by competition from China after it joined the World Trade Organisation in 2001, and then by the implosion of America's banks.Mr Calderón will be recalled most for donning a military uniform and sending the army to confront organised crime.
Mr Suleiman said the Saudi aid would finally allow the Lebanese army to "confront terrorism" and put an end to the proliferation of arms.
Troglita now moved his army to confront the enemy, who were encamped at a plain called the Fields of Cato.
