Sentence examples for frontier forces from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Nonetheless, western countries should deliver carefully selected equipment, supplies and training to the Ukrainian military, and not least to their frontier forces.

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.

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.

Although the Pentagon has given no indication of when or how the first strikes might come, a senior Pakistani military officer said before the meetings began today that Pakistan's frontier forces facing Afghanistan had not been raised to their highest state of alert or given any hint of what the American war plans might be.

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.

For Mr. Oynes and members of his inner circle, the episode only fed a notion they had of themselves as stoic sentinels on the petroleum frontier — forced to take flak unfairly, but there to get things done.

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.