Sentence examples for army to confront from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
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.
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.
Training national armies to confront terrorist threats certainly makes sense.
Soon thereafter, provincial officials, feeling threatened, raised guerrilla armies to confront the French.
Ordered to arrest as many demonstrators as possible, the army proceeded to confront the marchers, and violence erupted.
The most striking fact about the day's events for me was how ill-prepared the army was to confront the anti-coup crowds.
Ross also becomes the one-man army forced to confront the spiders in a grueling final battle, but the film escalates only gradually to such a feverish pitch.
