Sentence examples for force engaging from inspiring English sources

At the start of the campaign, the Australian Army had been the only ground force engaging in combat with the Japanese in the region.

"The ground force engaged," the statement said, "killing both men".

But on Nov. 24, 1899, a British force engaged the Mahdist remnants, and ʿAbd Allāh died in the fighting.

The Americans were part of a US-led multinational force engaged in a large-scale military exercise in Latvia.

Ships were then used to transport soldiers to battles on land; in the Battle of Sluis (1340), however, the English naval force engaged in at-sea fighting.

World War II hastened the industrial growth of Louisiana to the extent that the numbers of the labour force engaged in manufacturing increased considerably.

Mozambique is an overwhelmingly agricultural country, with more than four-fifths of the labour force engaged in farming, and settlement patterns reflect the agrarian focus.

But in each of these places, the federal government has found that the police force engaged in systemic violations of civil rights.

"It is our operational assumption that Saddam Hussein is here," said Col. James Hickey, commander of a 3,000-member 3,000-memberd in daily raids here.

This force engaged the French with harassing fire, forcing them to move only under the cover of their artillery.

The Duke of Brunswick's force was to engage the northern flank of the French army, called the Army of the Sedan, while Hohenlohe-Kirchberg's force engaged the southern flank (Army of the Metz).