Sentence examples for raise the army from inspiring English sources

In a poem, Mr. Bo ends with lines that reflect both political fervor and romantic feelings: Raise the army banner, And laugh still more, gazing at the red cosmos, Spare no effort to move forward.

The initiative had returned to Pym and his allies, who now proceeded to pass much of their stalled legislation, including the exclusion of the bishops from the Lords and the Impressment Bill (1642), which allowed Parliament to raise the army for Ireland.

The Pentagon decided Wednesday to further raise the army's size to 171,600 by October 2011.

Its authors also say the UK is becoming "increasingly isolated" internationally in continuing with the practice - no other country in Europe recruits from such a young age - and are calling on the MoD to raise the Army recruitment age to 18. David Gee, of ForcesWatch, said recruiting under-18s into the Army was "a practice from a bygone era".

Raise the army banner,   and laugh still more, gazing at the red cosmos,   spare no effort to move forward.

He raised the army to 80,000 men (equivalent to 4 percent of the population) and geared the whole organization of the state to the military machine.

After Nazi Germany successfully invaded France in May 1940, however, the U.S. government reinstituted conscription, thereby raising the army's strength to 1,640,000 by the time the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7 , 1941

The rebels handed over the bodies of 74 government troops to the Red Cross yesterday, raising the army casualty figure to 129, its biggest single-day loss since a Norwegian-brokered truce in 2002.

In the July elections, "all these conspiracies did not raise the [pro-army, nationalist] secular vote, but made the ruling party (the moderate Islamist AKP, which supports membership of the EU) even stronger".

The result is that America may be unable, within reasonable cost limits and without reinstituting the draft, to raise the much bigger army it might need for such wars.

Establishing himself at Worms in 1791, he set about raising the émigré "army of Condé," which took part, not very effectively, in the antirevolutionary campaigns of 1792 96.