Sentence examples for maintains a force from inspiring English sources

Britain maintains a force of four nuclear submarines that patrol year-round carrying Trident missiles.

France, which had colonized Djibouti (pronounced ji-BOOT-e) before it became independent in 1977, still maintains a force of 2,800 strong here.

The firm maintains a force of 600 armed men based in Baghdad's Green Zone to protect embassy and other United States government civilian employees.

Unlike Russia, which still maintains a force of more than 5,000 warheads from the cold war, China has deployed a minimal nuclear force, primarily 18 single-warhead land-based CSS-4 missiles.

UNMISS currently maintains a force of some 12,000 peacekeepers.

The size and speed of the troop increase will put a heavy strain on the military, which still maintains a force of more than 100,000 in Iraq and already has 68,000 in Afghanistan.

Russia maintained a force of some 1,500 troops in Transdniestria.

Obama's statement put an end to months of wrangling over whether the US would maintain a force in Iraq beyond 2011.

The Pentagon has budgeted about $65 billion to maintain a force of about 68,000 troops, meaning that each additional 1,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan would cost about $1 billion a year.

The United States Central Command, the military headquarters that oversees a region from the Horn of Africa to Pakistan, has maintained a force of roughly 20,000 troops, about 175 aircraft and 14 ships, anchored by an aircraft carrier.

President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld are telling the military that it should put missile defenses and future combat systems above maintaining a force capable of fighting and winning two wars simultaneously.