Sentence examples for belligerent forces from inspiring English sources

His case rested on detailed accounting tables drawn up by the intelligence department of the War Office of the "relative strengths of the belligerent forces".

Our army and people are raising vigilance against the United States imperialist belligerent forces' rash war maneuvers as well as being fully prepared.

Early the following year, various belligerent forces known as maquis (named from the underbrush, or maquis, that served as their cover) were formally merged into the French Forces of the Interior (Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur [FFI]).

Active peacekeeping includes subduing belligerent forces, supervising cease-fires, repatriating belligerents, destroying weapons, assisting refugees, providing humanitarian assistance and helping to reconstruct the political order.

The Sanmarinese government declared the same day that no military installations or equipment were located on its territory, and that no belligerent forces had been allowed to enter.

Over the course of the conflict, Nürnberg conducted four patrols off Spain, but did not encounter any belligerent forces, with the exception of a claimed attack by an unidentified submarine south of the Balearic Islands on 16 July 1937.

Its overriding objective seems to be to obtain international recognition as a "belligerent force" and to persuade the EU to stop labelling it a terrorist group.

In any war, a belligerent force protects its capital to the end, and the cultural capital of the southern US states lies here in Oxford, Mississippi.

But in the long term, this official said, "you can't have an armed belligerent force, which is also a terrorist organization, operating in a free Iraq".

The guerrillas also want the European Union to drop them from a list of terrorist organisations an aim that Mr Chávez supported, calling for their recognition as a "belligerent force".Mr Uribe faced much pressure to bow to the FARC's demands, both from the hostages' families and, less understandably, from France.

(Did she make sure he'd leave his phone behind, and type her keypad lock in such a way that he'd clearly see the numbers? Hard to know!) The pretzel logic of the story brings in the faux-Murdoch figure as a suspect, as well as the belligerent force behind the goons who start threatening Wren's family once he succumbs to Caroline's temptations.