Sentence examples for military scale from inspiring English sources

The logistics of the operation were on a military scale.

It is a balance-of-power, realist Republican approach that is generally short on details and might be summed up like this: strengthen America's military, scale back military commitments abroad and focus on the big powers.

Here, in a ritual carried out on a nearly military scale, city officials added them to the annual roundup of fresh flower leis that were draped this afternoon over the graves at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, in the extinct volcanic crater known as Punchbowl.

This arrangement meant that commandos lived on civilian rations, while the rest of the armed forces had the more plentiful military scale of rations.

Now the economic--not the military scale--is that which our importance is measured on.

This has clearly unnerved the group, which has threaten to end the peace talks unless the military scales back and Mr. Pastrana's government declares that the group is not a terrorist organization.

Last September, the prefecture thought they finally had a leader in Tokyo who might recalibrate the military scales when Yukio Hatoyama was elected Prime Minister, ending over half a century of rule by Washington's staunch Cold War allies the Liberal Democrats.

Economists, psychologists and sociologists have charted our ballooning work hours; the increase in time devoted to competitive shopping; the commercialization of leisure that turns fun into work and requires military-scale budgeting and logistics and emotionally draining interactions with service personnel.

But those last-minute exhortations were expected to be just the warm-up for Tuesday's main event: a military-scale mobilization of hundreds of thousands of campaign workers across the nation to drive people to the polls, hand out literature outside polling stations, buy coffee for rain-soaked volunteers and make, yes, more 11th-hour phone calls to wavering voters.

The rising tide of foreclosed real estate is so overwhelming that the agency, which had shrunk to a relatively tiny 4,800 employees from as many as 15,000 in the last period of bank meltdowns in the 1990s, is in the midst of a military-scale buildup as it undertakes one of the greatest fire sales of all time.

The cleanup has turned into a 24-hour-a-day, military-scale operation at Fresh Kills, with the New York City Sanitation Department and the Army Corps of Engineers running a fleet of several hundred trucks, river barges and tugboats that will be moving an estimated four million cubic yards of debris to landfills in upstate New York and Pennsylvania.