Sentence examples for build up forces from inspiring English sources
The looters narrative was used to justify suspending rescue attempts while simultaneously obstructing the passage of survivors from New Orleans, the better to build up forces to impose martial law on the city's luckless captive inhabitants.
The Bush administration, however, was reluctant to terminate a treaty that NATO nations valued and whose abrogation would have enabled Russia to build up forces that could potentially be directed at the United States' allies in Asia, as well.
Military experts say President Bush and his military advisers now face a decision: whether to build up forces more rapidly and step up the bombing of Baghdad and other cities to bring the war to a more swift conclusion, even if that incurs greater wrath overseas, especially in Arab countries.
The general seems unlikely to accept exile or receive amnesty, while the government will not want to leave him as a free agent for fear that he will again attempt to build up forces in the east of the country.* The EU has promised US$150m of aid to reconstruct the region, but such assistance, and the peace deal, does not resolve the underlying conflict over resources.
"The enemy continues to build up forces in the main areas of the armed conflict.
Putin continues to build up forces on the other side of the border, just to remind Ukraine of the slaughter of August 2014.
But concerns that ice could still build up forced NASA to delay liftoff from May to July while a new heater was installed.
He was a member in 2006 of the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission that recommended a faster drawdown from Iraq than the current Bush administration had contemplated; instead, the administration built up forces to stabilize the situation.
China's state-controlled media was issuing near-daily threats of war, as both sides built up forces on the edge of the tiny Kingdom of Bhutan.
The boycott had slowly built up force; it began to hurt the big orchards.
By contrast, most of the alternative approaches would build up force gradually, gently nudging, rather than shoving, the asteroid.
