Sentence examples for frontier force from inspiring English sources
After the 9th century their importance lay chiefly in Thrace, where many Paulicians had been forcibly located to serve as a frontier force against the Bulgarians.
So did a bigger war in Congo.See articles: The UN's frontier force and In the heart of darknessMori clings onA rebellion against Japan's prime minister, Yoshiro Mori, led by his younger rival, Koichi Kato, failed.
Ties of clubs, regiments, schools — the Royal Gloucester Hussars, the Imperial Yeomanry, the Punjab Frontier Force, Lloyd's of London Croquet Club — telling of an older, more powerful, more sedate England.
He walked north through Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), settling in Nyasaland (now Malawi) and was wounded as an intelligence officer in the Nyasaland Frontier Force at the outbreak of the first world war.
I arrived with my carriers in a small town called Tapis and one found there the commander of the frontier force, the villain of the League of Nations, a man called Colonel Benes, who'd committed many atrocities.
The fighting marks the breakdown of the deal over the Swat valley early this year, whereby the Taliban were allowed to bring in their local sharia courts and system of government in return for a ceasefire and disarming of their own militias, while the Pakistan army and frontier force withdrew.
Official mintages were supplemented by a mass of regional or local coinages, while official coinages from eastern mints provided necessary currency for local Roman frontier forces.
To assist Pakistan's frontier forces in combating mounting acts of terrorism, a small contingent of U.S. counterinsurgent trainers took up their duties in late October.
Nonetheless, western countries should deliver carefully selected equipment, supplies and training to the Ukrainian military, and not least to their frontier forces.
Cuauhtémoc's frontier forces were forced to retreat in 1521, and he defended his capital in a four-month siege that left most of the city destroyed and few Indians surviving.
Half a century ago the Assam Rifles and other frontier forces carried weapons dating from the first world war, and were dressed in thin cotton shirts suitable for the plains below, not the early winter of the Himalayas.
