Sentence examples for lines of troops from inspiring English sources

In the end, Mr. Giuliani and his advisers treated supporters as if they were so many serried lines of troops.

Burmese citizens gathered in front of lines of troops, sitting down in the streets, singing songs, chanting and taunting security forces.

Second, a famous example of PD comes from the trench-warfare of World War I [ 1], in which opposing lines of troops preferred to cooperate in maintaining a local peace rather than risk death in mutual defection (and reversion to reciprocated attacks).

A line of troops dressed in riot gear was deployed to form a human cordon on Gamaa Bridge, a crossing on the Nile leading towards the university.

My adrenaline was still pumping from the explosion minutes earlier, when one of them tossed a grenade at our line of troops, injuring more than a half-dozen soldiers and civilians.

As they moved forward, the mortar fire intensified, landing either side of a hesitant line of troops and vehicles increasingly exposed by the sun that by now had risen over the dusty horizon.

But by 6 30 p.m., a line of troops from the People's Armed Police, a paramilitary force, had formed to the north and was trying to push the crowd down into the Uighur quarter.

Even as Britain basks in the international limelight as leader of the peacekeeping effort in Kosovo, its top brass is uneasily aware that the thin red line of troops deployed on foreign operations is about as thin as it can get without snapping.

"Iraqi security forces in Makhmour... are beginning to expand the forward line of troops," said Colonel Steve Warren, a Baghdad-based spokesman for the US-led coalition.

En route the 7th Parachute Battalion came under fire from German machine-guns, then observed a line of troops approaching them.

McCarroll, who had kept up with his forward line of troops, ordered the rest of the regiment, including headquarters troops, to move up in support of the 11th Squadron.