Sentence examples for army resistance from inspiring English sources
But despite a UN security council resolution and unanimous approval, the plan had got nowhere when the al-Qaida affiliated Islamist groups began an offensive southwards, easily overcoming Malian army resistance.
As a result of the coup on March 22 in Bamako, Malian army resistance in the north collapsed and rebel groups took over in the north, an area the size of France, forcing Malian government troops to flee south.
Army resistance quickly melted away, and within months, IS fighters had begun to move into central and northern Iraq, threatening the unity of the state.
The result spread al-Qaida across the region and turned the Taliban into a guerrilla army of resistance.
We need to build that army of resistance and create a vision of the future based on unity not hatred.
The field-marshal has become a symbol of the army's resistance to change rather than a source of stability.
"If the army meets resistance each time it tries to arrest activists in the West Bank," he said, "then the army won't dare to go on raiding and arresting".
This, of course, is unacceptable to the army: local resistance threatens not only its business interests but also the political image of the new civilian government, which remains dominated by former generals.
Despite the Israeli army's resistance to escalation, the public pressure on politicians, many more hawkish than their military counterparts, is mounting with every missile fired.
At Turnham Green on the outskirts of London, the royalist army met resistance from the city militia, and faced with a numerically superior force, Charles ordered a retreat.
Gonzalo de Alvarado slew the Mam leader Canil Acab with his lance, at which point the Mam army's resistance was broken, and the surviving warriors fled to the hills.
