Sentence examples for ready army from inspiring English sources

"You have a ready army that can be enlisted in violent enterprises," Mr. Obasi said.

Sedentary troops (local troops) were sent to the frontiers, and the ready army (main movable army) was made domestic.

It requires instructors to rely in part on their own combat experience to determine whether the Ranger students are ready, Army officials said.

More than half of the city's residents live in slums, creating an ever ready army of alienated, unemployed young men for the gangsters' ends.

Milley said that maintaining a ready Army is the service's top priority and modernizing is its second, but he cited the need for civilian control of the government.

She relied upon this ready army of concerned citizens both as sources who discovered robins and squirrels poisoned by pesticides outside their back doors and as readers to whom she had to appeal.

Threatened on all sides by relentless enemies for a thousand years, the Byzantines needed ready armies and secure borders.

Fort Hamilton's batteries of big iron-barreled guns facing Lower New York Bay are long gone and its days as a battle-ready Army fort are past, but this 177-acre Brooklyn citadel remains heavily armed with history.

The British Government used hundreds of combat-ready army troops and Northern Ireland policemen today to prevent several thousand Protestants from marching, as Protestants have since 1807, through a small Roman Catholic enclave in this town.

But the moment I stuck a spade into it, the moment I pulled up just a single patch of weeds or disturbed a mossy slab with my foot, whole armies of combat-ready army ants gazed up at me; powerful, shimmering red specimens evidently waiting only for me.

He has also lectured on areas of his expertise on Iraq since 2004 to assist in readying army and National Guard contingents for their assignments in Iraq.