Sentence examples for fighting arm from inspiring English sources

The YPG is the fighting arm of the Democratic Union party, a political party that in 2014 declared three Kurdish cantons in northern Syria a de facto autonomous region named Rojava, or western Kurdistan.

In 1989 his "Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece" argued that a new style of fighting originated among the Greek city-states in the fifth century B.C., because phalanxes of armed infantry became the decisive fighting arm and because these foot soldiers deliberately sought battles in which to annihilate their foes.

The Arabs have been the strongest fighting arm of the Taliban.

"The Flying Fleet," however, has the distinct advantage of dealing with the United States Navy and of having had the cooperation of that fighting arm.

By that time, he explained, this was a mere fighting arm of that vicious organisation; he had been conscripted into it; had not fired a shot, and was soon invalided out.

Some may remember Jaime Sommers, the beta version of the Bionic Woman played by Lindsay Wagner in the late 1970s, with her fembot fighting arm, Sasquatch-sensitive bionic ear and legs that could run faster than a Plymouth Volare.

Syrian authorities said they were fighting armed terrorist gangs.

The Royal Navy has four main fighting arms: ships, submarines, the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Marines.

Not only was Yasmina Khadra - "Jasmine Green" - a man, but he was an army officer who had spent the previous eight years fighting armed Islamist radicals.

A man identifying himself as First Lieutenant Abdul Razak Tlass denied in an interview on al-Jazeera on Monday evening that the regime was fighting armed groups.

But the government disputes this account and says that it is facing a foreign conspiracy aimed at creating strife in the country, and that it is fighting armed Muslim extremists.