Sentence examples for old troops from inspiring English sources

Now people here on Chebeague and throughout Maine are again rallying the old troops, calling the company daily and even floating the idea of a charity event whose proceeds would help with efforts to get the cracker back.

Pyongyang retains a numerical military edge, but its weapons are old, troops are undertrained, and industrial base is shrinking.

He and a filmmaker had received permission to board the rusty old troop ship anchored in Virginia's James river.

By the time the ship neared Antwerp, the team members had had enough of the "rusty old troop carrier".

The COBRA 'conference call' held on Boxing Day is a world away from the 24-year-old Troop Leader fresh out of Sandhurst trying to find the words to inspire his young soldiers to carry on through the night filling sandbag after sandbag in the wet and cold.

A week ago, a group of 10 and 11 year olds trooped into Barnes's classroom and she played them a clip from the film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which is about three drag queens travelling across the Australian outback.

IN December 1942, when I was 13 years old, German troops occupied my hometown.

Viewers at last month's UK Jewish Film Festival could see Rock the Casbah by 42-year-old Yair Horowitz, the incongruously entertaining story of 18-year-old Israeli troops during the First Intifada in 1989.

But those old floating troop carriers are too weak and unstable to operate in the Hudson's powerful currents.

There was one survivor, a 14-year-old girl.American troops completed their withdrawal from cities in Iraq, despite a recent rise in suicide-bombings.

So when he was asked to be the cinematography merit badge adviser for his old Scout troop, he thought it would be a good opportunity to introduce the Scouts to some of his friends, including gay comedy writers and filmmakers who work at the likes of "SNL," "Late Show" and The Onion.