Sentence examples for deploy tanks from inspiring English sources

"The situation on the ground, as I said, was extremely fluid and remains extremely fluid, and up until yesterday we had no information" that the rebels planned to deploy tanks.

Several marchers said it was one thing to deploy tanks in provincial cities to fight antigovernment protesters, but it would be impossible to say that foreign armed gangs had penetrated an area close to the presidential palace.

The seeming justice of that revolt has prompted moments of naïveté — time and again, young people express amazement that Colonel Qaddafi's forces would deploy tanks and warplanes against them — with an incipient and unpredictable frustration over demands unmet.

Rumours of corruption as well as the disclosure by Wikileaks of U.S. diplomatic cables that provided Washington's inside knowledge all helped to corrode public respect for rulers, but what proved disastrous for them was the unwillingness of previously loyal generals to deploy tanks against protesters in a crisis.

The rebels planned to deploy tanks and artillery in the coup.

Fighting has been heavy and stray shells and bullets have spilled over into Turkey, prompting authorities to deploy tanks and other armed vehicles to the region.

Even in Homs, where the military deployed tanks last week, at least five small protests were reported.

The military also deployed tanks in Hara, a town near Dara'a where demonstrations galvanized the unrest in mid-March.

The Egyptian army has deployed tanks and armoured troop carriers outside the presidential palace in Cairo, the BBC reports.

But last week the northern military deployed tanks and thousands of soldiers to Kadugli to forcibly disarm the southern-allied soldiers there.

That reluctance could blunt their role, given how the government has deployed tanks, soldiers and pounding force to crush centers of dissent.