Sentence examples for private force from inspiring English sources

Like other pashas he maintained a private force of about 1,500 sekbans (mercenary soldiers).

Later, he recognized among his captors a highly placed officer from Kadyrov's private force.

There may also be problems from the other side, especially a private force supposedly linked to another oligarch, Igor Kolomoisky.

Mr. Khan, who was at home at the time, has his own private force of about 300 armed men.

There are metal grates and surveillance cameras, and also a private force of muscular men in brown vests patrolling the street at night.

He thought American involvement in Indo-China was insufficient and, despairing of British vacillation, proposed to raise a private force to put a stop to Charlie Kong.

Afghan and NATO officials have discussed ways of either controlling the private forces or replacing them.

Until it does, it is essential that the private forces that remain in Iraq be made accountable for their actions.

"The Devil's Playground" explains how a combination of public and private forces essentially made a new Times Square in place of the old.

Your suggestion that Maine might need patrols by the National Guard, at a closed nuclear-plant site, may cause readers to conclude that the facility is not amply guarded by private forces.

Previous Indian governments had been weakened by two disintegrating tendencies characteristic of premodern states one of armies being split up into the private forces of individual commanders and the other of provincial governors becoming hereditary local rulers.