Sentence examples for sizeable army from inspiring English sources

Having a bit of everything a sizeable army, a blue-water navy, jets and bombers, special forces is the prudent choice.

The recruitment and training of a sizeable army and police force, which will ultimately be 352,000 strong, is a cornerstone of Nato's strategy in Afghanistan.

The optimism is partly based on the idea that if the US were forced to choose between the UK having a nuclear weapon or a sizeable army, the Pentagon would opt for the latter.

By sunrise the Spanish had been surrounded by a sizeable army.

At sunrise, the Spanish saw that they had been surrounded by a sizeable army.

Władysław himself was hoping for a war, which could yield some more significant territorial gains, and even managed to gather a sizeable army, with navy elements, near the disputed territories.

But population policies are not all about rational economics: the world pays more attention to populous countries with sizeable armies than small ones without them.

Azerbaijan and Armenia both have sizeable armies, and the so-called Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has its own defense force.

On paper, Iraq's military is a sizeable force - an army of over 193,000 to which can be added some 500,000 police and paramilitary forces of one kind or another.

Napoleon gradually became more convinced that the Austrians were massed at Ulm and ordered sizeable portions of the French army to concentrate around Donauwörth; on October 6, three French infantry and cavalry corps headed to Donauwörth to seal off Mack's escape route.

In preparation for the weekly demonstration in Leipzig, 200km (124 miles) south-west of Berlin, on October 9th, the regime positioned a sizeable contingent of its 600,000 strong army in and around the city.