Sentence examples for build a force from inspiring English sources

They could build a winner in the near term, but they could not build a force of nature.

Commanders have pulled in reinforcements from the western desert to build a force of more than 3,500.

The government's plan is to build a force of 70,000 soldiers in five to seven years.

The policy-making elite, on other hand, know that "strategic thinking includes the notion that you have to build a force in order to be taken seriously, and that you have to spend on this dimension," Ms. Tempel said.

One sheik in Karbala, Ali Kammouna, said he and other sheiks were recruiting men to build a force that will "support" the Iraqi police rather than be part of it -- a move that sounds like building a private militia.

Although the Interior Ministry has purged the police force of more than 60,000 officers in recent years in its efforts to build a force loyal to Iraq and not to sectarian identity, the ranks of the police are often still the first place investigators turn after attacks.

He held the nascent organization together, obtained support from both communist and western European countries, and built a force of several thousand guerrillas whose strength lay in northern Mozambique.

He has built a force of more than 8,000 drug-financed "self-defense" fighters, who commit frequent massacres of civilians with the goals of cleansing the country of guerrillas and winning control of the lucrative drug trade.

Venice was diverted by conflicts in Italy and in any case lacked the force to meet the Ottomans on land, while the Ottomans needed time to build a naval force sufficient to compete with that of the Venetians.

"You need to build a police force".

She is striving to build a police force loyal to her, not to them.