Sentence examples for formidable army from inspiring English sources

He manages to escape and frees other slaves, forming a formidable army of rebels.

Southern Sudan has a formidable army of tens of thousands of soldiers, including many trained by the United States.

In Manchuria, Lin Biao was forging a formidable army of veteran cadres from northern China and natives of Manchuria, now well equipped with Japanese weapons.

Mr. Sharif isn't afraid to stare down the country's formidable army — a fearlessness that led to his ouster from an earlier stint as prime minister.

Those jihadis fighting in the conflict in Iraq have been trained in vicious urban warfare against the most formidable army in history.

"The king of Prussia today stands at the head of the most formidable army in the world," wrote Harper's Weekly, the American news magazine of the 19th century.

These were years when France, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire, battling over rival claims, sent their formidable armies marching across the weak and continually sparring Italian states; Milan, Genoa, Florence, Venice, Naples, and any number of smaller duchies, marquisates, and republics found it hard to defend themselves, for lack of a united front.

Across a misty valley, they could make out the equally bedraggled, yet formidable French Imperial army.

It conducts complex military manoeuvres reminiscent of those used by the formidable Chadian army.

On the ground, Isis may be perhaps the most formidable jihadist army yet, but Russia or China it is not.

The only sign these days of the once formidable rebel army in Virunga National Park is a trail of tin cans.