Sentence examples for formal army from inspiring English sources

Just as America has its military-industrial complex, Japan — whose constitution forbids a formal army — has its "construction state".

A formal army investigation began interviewing him in August 2014, shortly after his return to the US.

The government puts its strength at 125,000, making it comparable in size (if not in firepower or training) to the formal army.

Over the three years of Syria's civil war, the "government" forces battling against myriad rebel groups have increasingly devolved from a formal army into an amalgam of loyalist village-defence units, mafia-like shabiha gangs, and Shia militiamen imported from Iraq and Lebanon.

BENGHAZI, Libya — Six soldiers were killed early Saturday in attacks believed to be retaliation for the expulsion of a major militia from the city last weekend, raising fears of an imminent showdown between the formal army units and rival militia brigades over control of eastern Libya.

He called for the reorganization of the Cuban military into a formal army, rather than a Mexican-style "rural guard".

"It is very risky with all the sacrifices we've made, with all the budget to be spent, with all the support of America -- at the end of the day, the result will be a formal militia army".

If a county had established a formal guerrilla army during the Liberation War, then the guerrilla of that county was viewed as "strong".

In January it signed a ceasefire with the Shan State Army-North, but has already breached it.On the back of its formal military role, the army has also built up a suffocating economic grip on the region.

The new council gives the army a formal mechanism for bossing the administration it installed in January.

Mr. Thein Sein was prime minister of the previous military government but shed his formal links with the army to run with its proxy political party in 2010.