Sentence examples for potent army from inspiring English sources

In a detailed discussion of Iraq's prewar military posture, the report cites a long series of intelligence reports in the decade before the war that described a formerly potent army's spiral of decay under the weight of economic sanctions and American military pressure.

The swift and dramatic rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the group's de facto transformation from a terrorist organization into a terrorist government with a potent army is daunting and scary.

Israel has a potent, modern army.

By 1999, more than 160,000 hectares of Colombian countryside had been converted to coca fields, making this region the largest cocaine producer in the world and transforming the FARC from a band of peasant highway thieves to a potent terrorist army and legitimate existential threat to the Colombian state.

By 1999, over 160,000 hectares of Colombian countryside had been converted to coca fields, making this region the largest cocaine producer in the world and transforming the FARC from a band of peasant highway thieves to a potent terrorist army and legitimate existential threat to the Colombian state.

This could make the army less potent and in some cases make the weapons themselves more of a liability than an asset as the civil war rages on.

But Obama's online army, so potent at the polls in 2008, was AWOL for the next two years, a dog that didn't bark in the night.

At least 13 people have been killed in Cairo since Saturday morning in fighting between demonstrators in Tahrir Square and a potent combination of Egyptian army troops and the Ministry of Interior's riot police.

For Mr. Giuliani, the 36 Republicans in the Senate represent a potent political coalition, with armies of supporters across the state who can help get out the vote.

Through the amnesty programme, Kadyrov has amassed an army at least as potent as anything the separatists fielded in the 1990s.

When enacted en masse, though, it created a potent image of a digging, hammering army working in synchronous harmony.