Sentence examples for raising troop from inspiring English sources

He told a Senate hearing that raising troop levels by 20,000 would have only a "temporary effect" on security.

Mr. Bush has already said that he would propose a $48 billion increase in Pentagon spending for next year alone, pumping money into building new fighter jets and high-tech munitions, raising troop pay and expanding health care benefits.

But raising troop levels is the wrong place to start the discussion of how to move forward.

Such policies look wise given NATO's troubles raising troops.

Their functions included administering justice, raising troops, collecting taxes, and keeping peace.

Nominally governor of Picardy, he was kept under surveillance until, in 1574, he escaped to Alsace and began raising troops for the Huguenots.

In 1082 he was imprisoned by William on a charge of raising troops without royal permission, probably to defend the pope against the Holy Roman emperor Henry IV.

Where raising troops had been a job left to the states before the Civil War, conscription, North and South, was Exhibit A of the increasing centralization and power of both federal governments.

When Marie de Médicis was exiled from Paris by Louis in February 1631 for demanding Richelieu's dismissal, Orléans declared his support for the Queen Mother and began raising troops; but he fled to the duchy of Lorraine in April.

The federal government's recruitment policies — which placed the burden of raising troops on local citizens and officers — virtually guaranteed fraud and conflict between recruiters and probably prolonged the war.

Warwick returned to his estates, as did York and Salisbury, and the three started raising troops.