Sentence examples for major armies from inspiring English sources

From 218 the Romans annually fielded major armies decade after decade.

All the major armies disbanded, and coalition troops confiscated almost 40,000 weapons, ranging from pistols to artillery pieces.

While the United States and NATO do not have major armies on the ground in Libya, the allies have passed on these lessons to the rebel fighters.

However, only a handful of these weapons were adopted in very small numbers by the major armies, whose interest in automatic fire from the 1880s through World War I was directed primarily toward heavier infantry-support weapons (see below Machine guns).

Fort Lewis, just south of Tacoma, is a major Army base.

"There's a major army base in that town.

Meeting with little success, ʿAbbās engaged (1599) the Englishman Sir Robert Sherley to direct a major army reform.

Its target was Hiroshima, a port and major army base in western Japan, six hours' flying time away.

The attack, which some officials said was a suicide bombing, shows that militants remain active in the region, despite a major army operation there last year.

Editorials in major army-run newspapers this week lavishly praised the leadership of Mr. Jiang and mostly ignored Mr. Hu, though he is a vice chairman of the Central Military Commission.

[Moro Islamic Liberation Front guerrillas seized 70 civilians for use as human shields in the southern Philippines on Wednesday after attacking a major army camp here, the French news agency reported.