Sentence examples for overwhelming army from inspiring English sources

Thus fortified, Mr Marulanda was by the mid-1990s leading a force of 19,000 operating in large units, overwhelming army garrisons and threatening Bogotá, the capital.

The Dwarven king Dáin leads a small group of Dwarves and men of Dale to defend their homeland and manage to eliminate the Mordor presence in Esgaroth but are forced to retreat back to Erebor to defend themselves against an overwhelming army led by the Mouth of Sauron.

One follows the protagonist Shea Ohmsford on his quest to obtain the Sword of Shannara and confront the Warlock Lord, the antagonist, with it, while the other shadows Prince Balinor Buckhannah's attempt to oust his insane brother Palance from the throne of Callahorn while the country and its capital, Tyrsis, come under attack from overwhelming armies of the Warlock Lord.

He is Horatius, the Roman hero who volunteers to be one of the last three defenders of a bridge over the Tiber river against an overwhelming Etruscan army.

6, New Style), 1859, Shāmil, recognizing the futility of continuing to fight the overwhelming Russian armies that surrounded him, finally surrendered and effectively ended the resistance of the Caucasian peoples to Russian subjugation.

Its coverage, which is overwhelming pro-army, is clearly aimed at an international audience.

The images in World War Z reflect overpopulation anxieties with its shots of overwhelming zombie armies.

This basically involves troll armies overwhelming online conversations with inane memes.

Its purpose was to crush Charles XII's army with overwhelming force in a combined offensive of Russian and Saxon troops.

Cardigan's overwhelming enthusiasm for the army remained and the meticulous standards of dress and parade that he had required of his earlier commands he now applied to the whole cavalry.

Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.