Sentence examples for instead of armies from inspiring English sources

This time, instead of armies and genocide, money and evictions clear out the undesirables.

Instead of armies, players move stacks of money from state to state.

When Dave Wesely entered the Army in 1970, his friend and fellow Napoleonics wargamer Dave Arneson began a medieval variation of Wesely's Braunstein games, where players control individuals instead of armies.

Instead of massive armies colliding at Manassas, Fredericksburg, Antietam or Chickamauga, the guerrilla war was a hyper-local, hyper-personal affair.

Instead of fixed armies looking for opportunities, firms become loose networks that are forever reconfiguring themselves in response to a rapidly shifting landscape.

Instead of opposing armies clashing in a primal battle of the sexes, or mismatched romantics wistfully waving at each other from a distance, the film portrays domestic discord as a series of tiny skirmishes in a civilized and ultimately banal power struggle between two people with incompatible agendas.

Publishing (or broadcasting) was also incredibly complicated and expensive, and instead of employing armies of monks or scribes, the papers and the broadcasters employed, well, their own versions of monks and scribes.

Seeing the students flourish at Max Rayne School -- as with visiting the children in my schools in Colombia who are now on their way to college instead of guerilla armies -- only reaffirms my conviction that education is the very substance of peace.

It was kind of like that robot movie with Will Smith, but instead of an army of dysfunctional killer robots, we were staring down an army of shiny, leathery purses.

Are the Israel Defence Forces losing their edge, asks another, wondering if "instead of an army that is small but smart, we are catching glimpses of an army that is big, rich and dumb".

Some of them are even intentionally misspelled words to make bad jokes ("armies" instead of "arms").