Sentence examples for encountered a force from inspiring English sources

At the east end of the bridge, the demonstrators encountered a force of sheriff's deputies, deputized "possemen" (some on horseback), and dozens of state troopers.

Healy assessed that his company had encountered a force of at least company-size.

One troop, twenty men, encountered a force of sixty Turkish cavalry and charged them, armed only with rifles and bayonets.

American forces did encounter a force of Iraqi soldiers guarding the approach to the Saddam Canal but destroyed them with an airstrike, officers said.

But probably even more satisfying are those rarer occasions when one realizes that one is encountering a force of nature, one which most of the rest of the word has yet to discover!

Captain Edson upon encountering a force of bandits entrenched upon both sides of the river, personally led his advance guard against the enemy, engaging in hand-to-hand conflict with them, and by his exhibition of coolness, intrepidity, and dash, so inspired his men that the superior force of bandits were driven from their prepared position, and severe losses inflicted upon them.

The exorcism occurred after Bilé encountered a dark force during an astral projection.

Zurich's mobilisation was slow due to internal squabbling and on 11 October, 3500 poorly deployed men encountered a Five States force nearly double their size near Kappel on 11 October.

I felt as if I'd encountered a life-force on a rare and possibly frightening scale.

She attempted to reinforce the beleaguered German forces, and encountered a much stronger force of British cruisers and destroyers.

Leading about 300 cavalrymen on July 29 , 1856 Col. Edwin V. Sumner encountered an equal force of mounted Cheyenne near the south fork of the Solomon River, Kansas Territory.