Sentence examples for dispatching about from inspiring English sources

The Costa Ricans retaliated by dispatching about 70 police officers [4] into the area.

The second-largest government brigade is from the African Union, which is dispatching about 100 health workers.

In October, 2011, Obama announced that he was dispatching about a hundred Special Forces advisers to assist the Ugandan and African Union forces.

The police then stepped up their manhunt, assigning 170 special investigators to the case and at one point dispatching about 5,000 police officers to stake out major train stations, according to the local media.

The United States today deployed soldiers to the former Soviet Union for the first time, dispatching about 1,000 troops to Uzbekistan, Pentagon officials said, to aid in the expected war against terrorists and their protectors in Afghanistan.

Gage then dispatched about 2,300 troops under Major General William Howe against Prescott.

Anwar, head of a gang of killers called the Frog Squad, dispatched about 1,000 himself.

Suffolk County has 109 volunteer fire departments and had dispatched about 1,000 firefighters.

In addition to the regiment's 4,700 troops, the deployment order also dispatched about 15,000 other Army forces to the region, a Pentagon official said.

Italy sent out 3.6 billion pieces of mail last year, while the Vatican dispatched about 6 million international mail items, mostly postcards, in 2002, the most recent statistics available.

For comparison, in 2005 the American federal and state governments dispatched about 50,000 members of the National Guard in eight days to areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.