Sentence examples for army briefly from inspiring English sources

He had joined the army briefly at 17, diminutive and shying from physical contact, mostly to avoid work.

Several central areas have been gradually flattened as they have changed hands, with the army briefly retaking control, only to lose it again.

Mr. Sklar was in the Army briefly; he was drafted in 1962 but was discharged during basic training for medical reasons.

Boscawen, who had attended Sandhurst and while in the Army briefly read Mechanical Engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge, trained as a manager with Shell, then worked for his family's china clay company, also becoming an underwriting member of Lloyd's.

The technical challenges of transmitting huge amounts of data over complex new waveforms became so acute that in 2005, the Army briefly ordered Boeing to stop work on JTRS.

The three are Hérard Abraham, a lieutenant general in the now disbanded Haitian Army, who briefly led an army junta in 1990 but ceded power to a civilian; Smarck Michel, a former Aristide prime minister; and Gérard Latortue, an international business consultant who served as foreign minister in 1988.

The Iraqi army even briefly captured Baiji last year but lost it in a counter-attack.

Earlier this month, the army was briefly deployed in Soweto, a township near Johannesburg, after seven locals were murdered in taxis in a single week.

Following his departure from the army, he briefly turned his hand to sheep farming, but the land he was given was of poor quality.

According to historian Andrew Wheatcroft, on the route for Vienna, the Ottoman army had briefly invested and captured seventeen fortified towns or castles.

General Juan Pablo Rodriguez, current general commander of the armed forces, and General Jaime Lasprilla, the head of the army, both briefly led brigades that carried out extrajudicial murders, according to Human Rights Watch.