Sentence examples for army hands from inspiring English sources

On the annual 6 October public holiday, Tahrir Square, symbol of the uprising against Mubarak, was firmly in army hands.

Her 20-year-old daughter, who is about to get married to a soldier in the Syrian army, hands round hot, spiced coffee in tiny ornamental cups.

The men are old army hands, and although they haven't said anything to him, he knows that they do not think highly of his lot, the new conscripts drafted into the Shabaab-led insurgency.

When the Army hands over suspected insurgents to Iraqi prosecutors, the photos are handed over as well, along with a file about that person's actions, a kind of charge sheet.

The rebels acknowledge it is still in army hands.

He was assigned to its committee of safety, responsible for assuring that the province's limited supplies of weapons and gunpowder remained out of British Army hands.

Returning to George Washington's main army, Hand in 1781 was appointed its adjutant general.

When India became independent, the British Army handed over the keys of Fort William, and the Maidan, to their Indian counterparts.

On Saturday the Nigerian army handed over 750 Boko Haram suspects arrested by soldiers to the Borno state government for "rehabilitation and reintegration".

Mr. Putin later startled Westerners by shrugging after his own army handed over a Radio Liberty journalist to Chechen guerrillas, ostensibly in exchange for captured Russian soldiers.

In August, inter-service rivalry reared its head, when the army handed Boeing a $36m contract to develop a similar weapon, known at the moment as the High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator.The army's Space and Missile Defence Command is also in the game.