Sentence examples for competent force from inspiring English sources

Trotsky chose to concentrate on developing a small but disciplined and professionally competent force.

Mr. Shambaugh said that the goal of China's generals was to turn the People's Liberation Army into a mobile and technologically competent force able to fight "limited wars under high-technology conditions".

Instead, Libya's rebels have entered the grim work of waging war almost spontaneously, and would need time, training, equipment and leadership to develop into even a reasonably competent force.

"It was a well-trained, professional, competent force," he writes.

All the fancy planes, helicopters and high-tech weaponry mean nothing without competent forces.

Until that happens, even a competent Afghan force will have a hard time maintaining stability.

Thus, we see a predictable attempt at self-soothing through amplified reliance on a more competent surrogate force.

No halfway competent guerrilla force has ever been defeated as easily as the Iraqi army was in 1991 and 2003.

Or might the Freedom Party manage to reorganize itself into a competent political force in time to allow Mr. Schüssel to risk inviting it back into a coalition?

18. (S/NF) The Canadian PermRep agreed the importance of a vastly larger and more competent ANA force, and proposed that up to 200,000 troops might be necessary.

Perhaps Shrimp Seddon and her gang, in the next one, could work in cooperation with a more competent police force … Lillieoak's front door opened.