Sentence examples for local defence force from inspiring English sources

After he read the telegram, Hunt turned to his signals officer and said: "They might have added goodbye and the best of British!" Hunt, described on Monday by Sukey Cameron, representative of the Falkland Islands in London, as "stoic", deployed the local defence force of about 60 men (of which he was commander-in-chief) and a contingent of about 80 Royal Marines.

Farmers are angry about a demand for £16 to pay for uniforms for the local defence forces.

He has sent his army into South Waziristan, the hitherto autonomous tribal region close to the border with Afghanistan, where it has bulldozed mud villages, closed roads and annihilated local defence forces.

Ouattara's troops, the Republican Forces of Ivory Coast (FRCI) consists of a loose coalition of fighters who previously fought for the Forces Nouvelles (New Forces) rebellion – local defence forces, former soldiers and policemen who defected from Gbagbo's side.

Russia denies sending troops to Crimea, but supports "local defence forces" protecting the largely ethnic-Russian population.

At the same time they paid Kurdish villagers to set up local defence forces called "Village Guards" - to stop the PKK.

On the 21st, the local defence forces were enlisted to help mop up straggling German troops, and the 4th Indian Division pressed onward through a heavy gale and passed out of the country.

The city was captured by the afternoon of 20 September, and the 4th Indian Division left the country on the 21st, leaving it under the control of the local defence forces.

Open image in new window Fig. 12 Relation between the lane Local administration and lane Local civil defence forces.

O5: Local civil defence forces.

The Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol gives Moscow all the military clout it needs to overawe local Ukrainian defence forces, and the Russians look to have been bolstered by small numbers of specialist units flown in over recent days.