Sentence examples similar to retain army from inspiring English sources

Gun-ownership rates in Switzerland are among the highest in the world, partly because ex-conscripts are allowed to retain army-issued weapons.The judge who convicted Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Russian oil magnate, for theft and money-laundering in December was acting under orders, said a court official.

Scotland would leave NATO but would retain an army of perhaps 8,000-12,000 men, a navy and an air force.

He may also hope to retain his army uniform, though he is constitutionally obliged to shed it by year's end.

It is repugnant in a democracy that political parties should retain private armies.

The former general's overriding obsession was retaining the army's grip on political developments.

But it retained its army, its East German-trained security services and its horrendous bureaucracy.What has changed is American policy.

Though this peace process retains the army, ethnic groups and top officials, it has not yet gained legitimacy from the current Parliament.

The coal and utility industries have retained an army of lobbyists and congressional champions to kill pollution controls and convince the American public that burning massive amounts of coal and protecting the environment aren't mutually exclusive.

He still retained his army commission, and progressed steadily in rank through his retirement, becoming a major-general on 23 November 1841, lieutenant-general on 11 November 1851, and full general on 14 August 1859; on 1 September 1848, he took the colonelcy of the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot.

Recent converts to democracy, the Maoists retain a standing army, though it is corralled under UN supervision, a thuggish militia, known as the Young Communist League, and a well-earned reputation for brutality.

Consider, for example, the familiar claim that capitalists retain a "reserve army of the unemployed" in order to depress wages.