Sentence examples for defeat a force from inspiring English sources
They blame Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz for trying to lull citizens into a false sense of security, fault generals for relying too heavily on air power to destroy Hezbollah rocket launchers, and worry that Israeli troops may not have been prepared to defeat a force far tougher than Palestinian fighters.
Jon might prevail in a swordfight, but Ramsay's army will surely defeat a force half its size.
His strategy will focus on air strikes but also relies on supporting and training Middle East partners on the ground, which will be necessary to defeat a force already as powerful as ISIS.
Though Obama is now pressing for a largely blank check for global action to defeat a force he was loathe for months to strike in its Syrian strongholds, former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Bob Gates says that containment is the only realistic goal.
American troops under Gen. George Washington surprised and defeated a force of British regulars.
In 1389 at the Battle of Kosovo, fought just west of Pristina, an army of the Turkish Ottoman Empire defeated a force of Serbs and their allies.
Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, (February 27 , 1776, in the American Revolution, battle in which North Carolina Revolutionaries defeated a force of North Carolina loyalists, in part thwarting a British invasion of the southern colonies.
The Battle of Lake George (commemorated by a monument and state park) took place just south of the lake on September 8 , 1755 when Johnson defeated a force of French Canadians and Indians led by Baron Ludwig August Dieskau.
The limited losses inflicted on native Byzantine troops were quickly recovered, and in the following year Manuel's forces defeated a force of "picked Turks".
This marked one of the first occasions in Greek military history on which a force of peltasts had defeated a force of hoplites (heavy infantry).
On 29 January at the Battle of Alvarez Field the Allied vanguard defeated a force of 4,000 Argentines led by two colonels which General Ángel Pacheco had sent to slow down the advance.
