Sentence examples for hostile army from inspiring English sources

"It is quite another to slander our dedicated public servants, our brave police officers, even our rescue workers, who have been called a hostile army of occupation".

Their attention may start to shift now that their political bosses have changed.But Ms Yingluck appears wary of aggressive moves that could provoke a hostile army.

Every month, a fresh brigade of more than 4,000 soldiers takes on this standing enemy, which, depending on the scenario, may play the role of a hostile army or insurgents, paramilitary units, or terrorists.

"Lieber's Rules" included this definition of a prisoner of war: "A public enemy armed or attached to the hostile army who has fallen into the hands of the captor... by individual surrender or by capitulation".

For, in the first place, the Euboeans revolted, against whom he passed over with forces; and then, immediately after, news came that the Megarians were turned their enemies; and a hostile army was upon the borders of Attica, under the conduct of Plistoanax, King of the Lacedaemonians.

It still appears to be true, that if sometime since when the Confederacy, had three armies unbroken when no hostile army had penetrated their interior when their organisation was as yet intact, its Government had retired from Richmond, the war would not have ceased on the evacuation.

Israelis increasingly began to feel that they should no longer occupy the territories: the moral and demographic price was awful, the terror and the economic drain intolerable; more and more young people were going into the Army not to defend against hostile armies but to guard settlers and prisons, to work at checkpoints.

We still know we can roll over hostile armies, but we cannot roll over problems.

"We have these two hostile armies standing eyeball to eyeball, and it takes the miscalculation of a single individual to start something".

Yet this hopeful note is soon followed by a negative one: "I know from experience that to say these things today is to venture into a no man's land between hostile armies.

Situated in the middle of Europe, with hostile armies on two sides, and committed to the defense of Austria-Hungary, Germany was unable to make headway in the overseas world despite her strength.