Sentence examples for lines of army from inspiring English sources

Elsewhere, rigid lines of army and police forces faced off against angry protestors, many holding their hands over their noses and mouths against the acrid black smoke swirling around them.

Myanmar news media showed images of lines of army trucks entering Meiktila on Saturday, following an order on Friday by President Thein Sein to impose a state of emergency on the city and surrounding areas.

In the foreground, slender-tailed mongooses streak across the track and into the tall grass with their pennant tails fluttering, while other minor characters, from swooping hornbills to lines of army ants, distract us from our task of scanning the horizon for megafauna.

In scenes reminiscent of forced removals in South Africa under apartheid, the inhabitants were put on trucks and driven off.In this section The consequences of selective killing Storm in a precious teacup One more for Mugabe No place for the poor ReprintsThey have been dumped in lines of army-style tents on the dusty edge of Luanda, some 30kms (20 miles) from the city centre.

He remembered a seaside road, close to some military barracks, with a long line of army trucks.

The youngest of five children, Montagu grew up in Yorkshire, her mother a beguiling, intellectual woman from Brisbane, her British father an army man from a long line of army men, who served in Burma and India before going into industry.

They're even more bitterly disappointed when a line of army tanks drives into a crowd and rolls over five demonstrators, killing them.

Washington's desire to launch an attack on Boston arose from his fear that his army would desert in the winter, and how easily he knew that Howe could break the lines of his army in its present condition.

Lines of Syrian army troops circle Qerdaha, adding an additional defence to the natural protection offered by the mountain it perches on, overlooking Latakia.

So if police and army are under one commander, how is it that two hours later, at 5pm, a gas canister suddenly crashes out from behind the lines of protecting army and the attacks on the protesters start once again?

The New York Herald admitted as much, conceding that "a few hundred slaves, here and there within the lines of our armies" had been liberated on Emancipation Day.