Sentence examples for popular troops from inspiring English sources

The incident convinced him that the popular troops he led were superior to the regular army of the northern domains and that the country's security would best be safeguarded by a system of universal obligatory military service.

The siege began on Friday when gunmen stormed the Byblos hotel, an establishment popular with troops from the UN's MINUSMA peacekeeping mission in Mali.

The name became popular with his troops, and it stuck.

But he was notably more popular with his troops than with his superiors.

So it's popular with coalition troops in Iraq.The seed money for the Phraselator was supplied by the American government.

Faced with overwhelming popular resistance, the troops had to decide between shooting large groups of demonstrators and giving up.

"Jeff had a better range of experience, he was a natural leader and was popular with the troops".

Stewart reported that his copies of the Anglo-African were popular with white troops, while their officers argued vehemently over emancipation.

The war in Iraq, like the one in Vietnam, wasn't popular; but the troops, at least nominally, were — wildly so.

The title comes from an expression popular with American troops, loosely standing for "fouled up beyond all recognition," and the plot nears that level of frenzy.

A handful of strikes on valued government or military targets could be ordered, as was done in the Gulf of Sidra raids in 1986 after Libya was linked to the bombing of a Berlin club popular with American troops.