Sentence examples for foreign battalion from inspiring English sources

For Mr. Prince, the foreign battalion is a bold attempt at reinvention.

Mr. Roumi's letters, dated May 18, were sent in response to inquiries by members of the House of Representatives after The New York Times reported last month that the United Arab Emirates had signed a $529 million contract with R2 to build the foreign battalion.

The New York Times reported on Sunday that the company last year signed a $529 million contract with the Emirati government to recruit and train a foreign battalion for counterterrorism and internal security missions, according to former Reflex Responses employees, American officials and corporate documents.

But the numbers of trainers needed would actually be smaller than the number of foreigns battalions we currently need — but do not have — from NATO.

But it gave no details of the company's project to build a foreign mercenary battalion for the Emirati government.

The U.A.E is a close American ally, and officials in Washington indicated that there was some support in the Obama administration for the foreign mercenary battalion.

Piarroux et al. provide circumstantial evidence that fecal contamination of a local stream draining into the Artibonite River initiated the epidemic, that further spread then occurred to more heavily populated towns downstream in the river valley, and that a foreign peacekeeping battalion may have been the source of V. cholerae introduction into Haiti.

My platoon and 1,500 marines had been deployed to Lebanon, along with French Foreign Legionnaires and battalions of British and Italian soldiers, to provide stability in a country ravaged by civil war and a Syrian invasion.

Mr. Prince, who resettled here last year after his security business faced mounting legal problems in the United States, was hired by the crown prince of Abu Dhabi to put together an 800-member battalion of foreign troops for the U.A.E., according to former employees on the project, American officials and corporate documents obtained by The New York Times.

For those who need their memories jogged, the May 14 NYT article "Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater's Founder" by Mark Mazzetti and Emily B. Hager detailed how Prince was hired by Sheik Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi and the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates, to put together an 800-member battalion of foreign troops for the U.A.E.

The battalion has not heard languages typical of foreign fighters in Afghanistan — Arabic, Uzbek and Urdu, for example — on intercepted radio messages.