Sentence examples for official strength from inspiring English sources

The main goal was to get a minimum critical volume of fibre which would transform ordinary concrete into SFRC with an official strength class.

By 1986, under Soviet guidance, the local armed forces had been built up to an official strength of over 300,000.

"In one battalion, the official strength is 400 but the actual number is around 150," Ataullah Afghan, a Helmand provincial council member told Reuters of the Afghan forces.

The two brigades had a combined field strength of about 2,000 2,6511 official strength); they charged with the 47-year-old Uxbridge leading them and a very inadequate number of squadrons held in reserve.

In the meantime, the NSA's manpower is an obvious problem – its official force strength is in the hundreds, but some interviewees gave much lower estimates.

The Officials' strength was further depleted by the defection of several OIRA units to PIRA in 1970.

I always knew I was skinny fat — my Tanita scales regularly place me at around 30%, but this was an official lab strength machine!

More than 20 players, baseball officials and strength and conditioning coaches said in interviews that they knew of players who had turned to other performance-enhancing drugs for help in building muscle mass.

On the rolls the official, or paper strength, for both Brigades is given as 2,651 while Barbero and others estimate the actual strength at around 2,000 and the official recorded losses for the two heavy cavalry brigades during the battle was 1,205 troopers and 1,303 horses.

Even in areas of proven opposition strength, official returns showed a large turnout and a large percentage of confidence votes.

Monsanto officials said the strength of the second quarter gave them the confidence to raise the company's fiscal 2013 earnings guidance by 10 cents to $4.40 to $4.50 a share before certain after-tax items.