Sentence examples for gathering armies from inspiring English sources

"Another king?" Cersei (Lena Headey) says in the season's second episode, referring to one of those who are gathering armies and staking a claim to the throne.

And with the gathering armies of Act Up activists standing outside the doors, they marched into the halls of science as unwanted – then begrudgingly accepted, then admired – collaborators.

Taking advantage of this fact, Schlieffen planned to initially adopt a purely defensive posture on the Eastern Front with a minimal number of troops facing Russia's slowly gathering armies.

Meanwhile, across the ice-clogged Moscow River, a gathering army of police was bracing for a race riot, the second in four days.

Some residents of Tripoli said they took the gathering army as a sign that the uprising might be entering a decisive stage, with Colonel Qaddafi fortifying his main stronghold in the capital and protesters there gearing up for their first organized demonstration after days of spontaneous rioting and bloody crackdowns.

Those fleeting dot-com-stock millionaires were merely an early wave in the gathering army of self-directed investors.

Huge rock concert-scale gatherings, armies of fevered supporters, mystical Marxism with a hint of lyrical Catholicism and Bolivarian incantation… The Chavez "show" served the interests of a president who never hesitated to align his own person with the destiny of the nation.

The King of the Scots massed an army on the Northumberland's border, to which the English responded by gathering an army at Newcastle.

He advanced unopposed into Babylonia; but Artaxerxes, warned at the last moment by Tissaphernes, was hastily gathering an army.

BERLIN — When Thomas de Maizière, the German defense minister, told a gathering of army reservists last month that he considered the U.S. strategy of using drones for targeted killings a "strategic mistake," his remarks received almost no coverage.

In gathering an army of zombie PC's -- many of which are unsuspecting home computer users -- to silence an online target, MyDoom represents a new level of Internet warfare, security officials said.