Sentence examples for permanent army from inspiring English sources

Thereafter other buildings were erected on the island, and the first permanent army detachment was garrisoned there in 1859.

With the creation of a permanent army and its own officers (15th century), the bailli lost his military powers.

Early Americans considered a standing army — a permanent army kept even in times of peace — to be a form of tyranny.

Since one of their worries was the prospect of a standing army — a permanent army — Madison drafted an amendment guaranteeing the people the right to form a militia.

That approach would require a permanent army of officials to adjudicate every complaint against Microsoft, a task that Justice wants no part of.

Opposition to Sigismund thus was mounting when, while he was fighting his uncle Charles IX, who had seized the Swedish throne, he requested that the Polish Sejm (legislature) authorize a permanent army as well as funds to maintain it (March 1606).

Some of these assault vehicles have permanent armies of drummers on board, thumping belligerently and rhythmically away, creating the kind of scary and upsetting noise usually only heard on the streets of the Edinburgh festival.

Yet these permanent armies are exactly what those who drafted the U.S. Constitution feared as tools used by despotic governments to wage war against its citizens.

Yet these permanent armies are exactly what those who drafted the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights feared as tools used by despotic governments to wage war against its citizens.

He created a permanent standing army and employed European mercenaries as instructors.

He showed us maps of areas that only a year or two ago had no permanent Iraqi army presence, but now have full complements.