Sentence examples for maintaining an army from inspiring English sources

It was an unusual experiment in containment, making use of America's prowess in air power while avoiding the perils of maintaining an army on the ground.

This, despite the country being forbidden, under clause nine of its postwar constitution, from maintaining an army in the traditional sense.

"Something must be done and done speedily," the Secretary of the Navy said, "or we shall have an opportunity of trying the experiment of maintaining an army and navy and carrying on a vigorous war without money".

The insurrection, its leaders say, could lead to faster economic restructuring, a more assertive foreign policy and a willingness to break long-held taboos by taking such measures as watering down Japan's "peace Constitution," which nominally bars it from maintaining an army.

Building and maintaining an army of citizen scientists requires more than good management skills, Robinson says.

It also contained Article 9, the Peace Article of the Constitution, which prohibits Japan from ever leading a war again or from maintaining an army.

Separately, an equal number of conservatives, many of them Army veterans, demonstrated for increased vigilance about North Korea, which maintains an army with a million troops north of the border, only 35 miles from here.

Abkhazia maintains an army seasoned by civil war.

JAPAN'S constitution forbids it to maintain an army: but it has 240,000 men under arms.

After the war, Germany was demilitarized; when, in 1952, the country was again allowed to maintain an army, Alois Ostermeier immediately signed up.

At the same time, Tajikistan is heavily dependent on Russia for economic and strategic aid and Moscow maintains an army division on Tajik soil.