Sentence examples for half army from inspiring English sources

"They barely had uniforms, and in the beginning wore bits and bobs of various forces, half army and half police, which is why they were dubbed the Black and Tans".

Dressed in a red protective coat over a blue-and-white striped shirt, he possesses a kindly, frank manner, talking more like a retired soldier than a biotech impresario (until 2013, he was also chair of the Help for Heroes charity, and comes from a military family, "half army, half navy").

In Toronto, Rihanna ran the stage with ease, half lithe dancer, half army general.

Half the army speaks Dari and the other half Pashto.The army has the correct proportion of Pashtuns, the ethnicity from which the Taliban draws its strength.

After decimating half an army in the Colosseum, he becomes a hero of the people.

By some estimates, nearly half the army is in Katmandu and the valley around it.

At the war's height, 45,000 British troops were deployed to Iraq, representing almost half the army's strength.

Doubts teased Rosecrans' tired mind as he rapidly dictated orders that would put nearly half his army in motion.

Mr Alkatiri's sacking of almost half the army, for going on strike, triggered last year's violence.

The famous Greek General Pyyrhus once won a battle where he lost half his army in the process.

"First of all, I wouldn't go to no war and leave half the army home," says Amiri Baraka, the radical poet and playwright who achieved international renown in the sixties as the leading spokesman for the Black Arts movement.