Sentence examples for preparing a force from inspiring English sources

Some military planners urged a more cautious approach; one wise man suggested preparing a force of American policemen in case Iraq's police collapsed.

Operation Teardrop was planned during late 1944 in response to intelligence reports which indicated that Germany was preparing a force of missile-armed submarines.

Admiral Byron had been alerted to the capture of Saint Vincent on 1 July, and was preparing a force to retake it when he learnt of the attack on Grenada.

I groaned inwardly and was preparing a forced smile while she started off shyly, but then, of course, the four of us fell over laughing together.

Muhammad prepared a force of about 3,000 men and adopted a form of defense unknown in Arabia at that time; the Muslims dug a trench wherever Medina lay open to cavalry attack.

Like so many alt-right internet phenomena, the fake march was able to freak people out — generating dozens of alarmist news stories, and compelling police to prepare a force of 100 to keep the peace — out of almost nothing.

Aware that a return to war was almost inevitable, Napoleon ordered the French Navy to prepare a force for extended service in the Indian Ocean, a force that would be capable of inflicting significant losses on the British trade from the region.

Work was discontinued on the road in August after word was received that the British were preparing a military force at Saint-Jean to attempt capture of the construction crew.

Unless the euro area is preparing an occupying force, they can't make Greece stay in.

Ecowas is also preparing a military intervention force, but it has yet to gain United Nations approval for it.

The Mexican president is faulted for starting a head-on assault on the heavily armed cartels without first gathering intelligence on them, without first preparing a trustworthy police force to take them on, without preparing the country for how rough it would turn out to be.