Sentence examples for large number of armed from inspiring English sources

"A large number of armed militias carrying medium and heavy weapons arrived at the Al Sha'ab mosque with the intention to destroy the mosque because of their belief graves are anti-Islamic," said a government official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

A large number of armed police followed.

The district also has a large number of armed groups, many of them outside the government's control.

The children's surprise at the large number of armed soldiers at Sana'a airport gave way to astonishment as we drove into the medieval old city.

"We were unable to challenge such a large number of armed men," said Muhammad Rafiq, a security guard of the Sunday attack.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force said in a statement that it had carried out precision airstrikes against a large number of armed insurgents from the Haqqani network, Taliban allies operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

A simple and efficient method is presented which allows the construction of star polymers consisting of a large number of arms and multiple units of C60 per core, far in excess of that obtained previously.

A large number of ARM proteins from both rice and Arabidopsis were falling into the same subgroups based on their related domain composition, suggesting a common ancestry of ARMs in two diverse species.

In contrast, star polymers with a larger number of arms (22) and a crowded branched architecture show stable circular domain morphology without the internal reorganization under variable conditions.

In an effort to prevent rioting and retaliatory killings by angry Shiites, large numbers of heavily armed policemen and soldiers flooded the streets of Quetta.

He said the violence in the Rift Valley after the election appeared to have been organized because of the involvement of large numbers of heavily armed men who seemed to strike just minutes after the disputed results were announced.