Sentence examples for many battalions from inspiring English sources

Many battalions have adopted religious slogans, dress and practices, in what some rebels and activists call a pragmatic shift to curry favor with Islamist donors in Persian Gulf countries.

The forces were poorly equipped; many battalions had only two companies of infantry, as opposed to the regulation three.

After the war when Australia's part-time military forces were reformed in 1948, while many battalions that had been disbanded during the war were re-raised, the 39th was not.

I find, too, that there is a general heightening of diction — "attacked" for "went in," "swoops" for "goes," "countless" for "many," "battalion" for "rank" — and a loss of some fine points ("fury" misses the fact that Homer's thespesioi homadoi, "with an inhuman din" is meant to evoke a sound).

Like many infantry battalions in the Marine Corps, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines consists of five companies: three Rifle Companies, a Headquarters and Service Company (H&S), and a Weapons Company.

During this time the AIF was expanded from two infantry divisions to four – with a fifth forming in Australia – and many infantry battalions that had seen service at Gallipoli were split up to provide cadre staff for the newly-raised battalions.

They say they are from the army, but it is more likely that they belong to one of the many independent battalions incorporated into Ukraine's newly formed national guard.

The fire center measures the severity of wildfires in a variety of ways: by the number of fires, by the number of acres burned and by how many military battalions have been summoned to help.

It is just one of many autonomous battalions of heavily armed men formed during and after the uprising against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi who have filled the void in public security left by his fall, resisting calls to disarm by saying that the weak transitional government is not up to the job.

From there, Right Sector created from its numbers one of the many volunteer battalions, fighting alongside regular government forces against Russian-supported insurgents in eastern Ukraine.

In the spring of 1918, when the German Army launched its last effort at victory, known as the Spring Offensive, the 39th was among the many Australian battalions that were hurriedly moved south to France in order to stem the tide of the German onslaught towards Amiens; fighting a series of defensive actions in the Somme between late March and early June.