Sentence examples for inadequate force from inspiring English sources

In 255 they offered battle to Regulus, who had taken up position with an inadequate force near Tunis, outmaneuvered him, and destroyed the bulk of his army.

"They deployed an inadequate force as a politically palatable substitute for doing nothing," said Paul F. Diehl, a professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

On December 31 , 1775 under General Richard Montgomery and Colonel Benedict Arnold, an inadequate force of roughly 1,675 Americans assaulted the fortified city, only to meet with complete defeat.

The neutrophils — the type of white blood cells that serve as the front line of the immune system, our body's version of the Marine Corps — were below 500 cells per microliter, an inadequate force to fight off even the most insignificant infection.

Several times, he returned to what has become a central tenet of American commanders here: that their problems are not a result of inadequate force levels but of sketchy intelligence that leaves them unsure whom they are fighting, the extent to which the attacks are coordinated at a national level, and, if so, by whom.

Accordingly, three months before the outbreak of war, Byng was sent with an inadequate force to defend the island, but, by the time he arrived in May of that year, a French force under the Duke de Richelieu had already landed and was besieging Fort St . Philip

In 544 Belisarius was sent against him with inadequate forces.

Now we are deeply involved in two wars with inadequate forces to handle them.

They maintained permanent garrisons in these castles and supplemented the otherwise inadequate forces of the barons and king.

Meeting the Ottoman army at the Battle of Mohács with inadequate forces, Louis was defeated and drowned in the marshes while fleeing from the battlefield (August 1526).

First, that dedicated funding could prove inadequate, forcing the program either to cut benefits or to turn to Congress for aid.