Sentence examples for exercises are held from inspiring English sources
(The exercises are held four times a year, with about 100 soldiers participating each time).
An official in Washington coyly refuses to confirm even the number of exercises being held.
And, not coincidentally perhaps, massive civil defence exercises were held inside Russia, in apparent preparation for a nuclear war.
That the last night of the course's exercises was held at a public airport, served by prominent commercial airlines, including Delta, United and US Airways, was by design.
After North Korea shelled a South Korean island in the Yellow Sea in November, however, further U.S. South Korean exercises were held in the sea.
"If these exercises were held at NATO's insistence in some psychiatric hospital, it would be a much more adequate decision than holding them on the territory of the Georgian state".
On Saturday afternoon, three days after graduation exercises were held at Yankee Stadium, volunteers from the nonprofit group New York Cares and others emptied out the room, lifting bags into bins and wheeling them downstairs to a loading dock.
Official Syrian state media reported on Monday that the combined exercises were held on Sunday to test "the capabilities and readiness of missile systems to respond to any possible aggression".
After Khrushchev was ousted in 1964, the Soviet Union began a major buildup of conventional forces, and in 1967 military exercises were held that indicated the expectation of a substantial conventional stage at the start of a future war.
