Sentence examples for garrison tasks from inspiring English sources

Initially upon their arrival in New Guinea in January 1942 the 39th Battalion was used to defend the airfield at Seven Mile Aerodrome near Port Moresby and to carry out various other garrison tasks such as building defences and unloading stores at the wharf.

As the coach of the United States Olympic women's tennis team, Garrison has the task of winning a gold medal against a field that no longer fears the United States.

Zheng He was appointed garrison commander in Nanjing, with the task of disbanding his troops.

Add to that list the more recent task of commanding a garrison in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, Iraq.

But since summer, the Americans have pulled back to their garrisons and given up many security tasks to the Iraqis.

Villages can garrison villagers and livestock given to them tasked to fatten more quickly.

But in Iraq the light, mobile force that smashed its way to the centre of Baghdad was plainly inadequate for the task of garrisoning the country, securing the borders and arms dumps, confronting the insurgency and preventing the slide to sectarian war.

It's presented in the form of an inverted mystery, and reads like something Denis Johnson might come up with if you tasked him with ghostwriting one of Garrison Keillor's "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues.

The garrison was relieved by the arrival of a Chadian task force supported by armor and, more importantly, of the French Foreign Legion and the 3rd Regiment of Marine Infantry.

The whole garrison of the city, some 150,000 men, surrendered to the task force.

The pigeons were part of the balloon department whose main task was to operate the balloon of the garrison.