Sentence examples for proper armies from inspiring English sources

The Americans share it writ large: UN ops is what second- and third-world nations do but proper armies, we pick and choose," he said.

Intervention by proper armies with orders to shoot to kill can work: British troops helped save Sierra Leone, and the French legionnaires in Côte d'Ivoire have reduced the carnage there.

Mr Hagel may even struggle with his plan to trim subsidies for military supermarkets (which at $1.4 billion a year are larger than the defence budget of Hungary).Europe is mocked for running "heavily armed pension funds" rather than proper armies, as shrinking defence budgets are skewed towards personnel costs and politicised investments.

With professional training and leadership (presumably from abroad), the rebels may eventually turn into something like a proper army.

"Isil don't want you to know they would quickly be crushed if they ever faced proper army on real battlefield," said Mr Aly.

One Afghan journalist says that, at the current rate of training, it will take ten years to reach the 70,000 men required for a proper army.

Algeria is a serious country with a proper army, capable of great brutality, a tradition it inherited from the French occupation.

Under the peace agreement, the Maoists' ragtag bunch of guerrillas was supposed to be integrated with the proper army.The army will have nothing of it, so former Maoist fighters are still holed up in United Nations-supervised cantonments.

But how to do this in a place with few roads, rampant corruption and the constant threat of militia attacks?Mr Kabila has failed to start building a proper state or to demobilise all militias and create a proper army.

Isis may be contained from the air, but unless it faces a proper army like Turkey's (unlikely in view of Turkish ambiguity) we will probably have to sit it out until it chokes on its own blood and live with the interim consequences as best we can.

"Soon we will talk not about a rebel force but a proper army, the army of Novorossia".