Sentence examples for official armed forces from inspiring English sources

The official armed forces, by contrast, are a mess.

On that day, the official armed forces completed their withdrawal from five southern municipalities due to be "demilitarised"—by agreement between the FARC and the government of President Andres Pastrana for 90 days as a precursor to peace talks.

The deal struck between the Kabila government and Ntaganda's CNDP in March 2009 saw the rebels become a registered political party and their forces integrated within the official armed forces, the Forces Armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC).

Sudan's government even promised to integrate several thousand rebel fighters into the official armed forces.But if Darfur's rebels succumb to pressure and are persuaded to sign an amended draft, will it be implemented?

Its fall was a massive blow to the Iraqi army, to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and to the US, who had encouraged his policy of relying on the official armed forces and police and ruling out a role for Iranian-backed Shia militias.

Ramadi's fall was a massive blow to the Iraqi army, to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and to the US, which had encouraged his policy of relying on the official armed forces and police and ruling out a role for the militias, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut.

He wants to root out the so-called "conspiracy of optimism", in which officials, the armed forces and defence suppliers pretend that kit will be delivered much more cheaply than it in fact can be.

There was a "conspiracy of optimism": officials, the armed forces and suppliers consistently planned on a best-case scenario, knowing that once a commitment to a project had been made they could revise up its costs with impunity.

As Egypt beats the drums of war after a shocking uptick in violence targeting officials and armed forces, the state faces an uphill public relations battle to portray itself as undefeatable and morally in the right.

An official at the armed forces' general staff confirmed military buses had been the target, hit by an explosive-laden car as they waited at traffic lights.

"He's up to date on everything that is happening, he's asking questions and verifying things, he's been very active," Gen. Henry Rangel Silva, a top official in the armed forces, said Friday morning on state television.