Sentence examples for on its armed from inspiring English sources

A scattered and fractious archipelago of 210 million people, it has relied on its armed force of 350,000, rather than on democratic processes, to maintain national unity.

"I think his power just evaporates". The army has long been revered in Pakistan, a nation that counts on its armed forces to defend it from a hostile, militarily superior neighbor to the east, India.

It spends 3% of its GDP on its armed forces, France and Britain around 2.5%, Germany just 1.6%.

Britain spends about £30 billion a year ($60 billion) on its armed forces.

The superpower already spends nearly as much on its armed forces as the whole rest of the world.

NATO figures show that Greece spent 2.8 percent of G.D.P. on its armed forces in 2008, or about 6.9 billion.

The Trump administration on Monday escalated its efforts to force Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power, blocking all U.S. revenue to Venezuela's national oil company and calling on members of its armed forces to switch their allegiance to the man the United States now recognizes as Venezuela's head of state.

Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, released a statement after the raid claiming Israeli forces "infiltrated this evening in a civilian car" and opened fire on a group of its armed men near the city of Khan Younis, killing one of its commanders, Nour Baraka.

Japan has made several widely publicized moves to lift restrictions on the use of its armed forces.

On the second day of its armed occupation of the Malheur national wildlife refuge, the Bundy militia shifted tactics.

Meanwhile, Georgia was pressing to accelerate its accession to NATO, and embarking, with the support of the United States, Ukraine and Israel, on a major modernization of its armed forces.