Sentence examples for maintained thousands of from inspiring English sources

American forces have bombed the bases of the main armed Iranian opposition group in Iraq, a guerrilla organization that maintained thousands of fighters with tanks and artillery along Iraq's border with Iran for more than a decade.

Since then, both countries have maintained tens of thousands of troops either side of the border.

The US share of Nato military spending had soared to 75%, much more than during the cold war heyday when Washington maintained hundreds of thousands of US troops across Europe, he said.

Senior U.S. military officials and some former Obama administration officials increasingly compare the U.S. government's plans for Afghanistan to its approach to South Korea, where it has maintained tens of thousands of troops for decades.

He and his father maintained hundreds of trees, sometimes lighting smudge pots in the middle of the night to keep the cold weather from spoiling the fruit.

Is it possible you're adapting your strategy to conform to the reality that you already maintain thousands of stores?

The Berlin Zoo has rapidly developed one of the world's largest animal collections, maintaining thousands of specimens of hundreds of species.

Accidental nuclear war may have become more likely, since the Russian command-and-control system is deteriorating and both countries maintain thousands of nuclear warheads on alert.

Railroad civil-engineering forces also are concerned with constructing and maintaining thousands of buildings, ranging from small sheds to huge passenger terminals.

The costs include everything from new nuclear bombers, submarines and bomb factories to the huge but unknown costs of deploying and maintaining thousands of nuclear weapons.

Many in the Pentagon believe that this is an idea whose time has come, a change in focus which will free up funds for our real defense needs rather than maintaining thousands of redundant nuclear warheads in perpetuity.