Sentence examples for small troop from inspiring English sources

Procurators were also appointed to govern, with small troop detachments, certain lesser provinces.

In 1991, during the first Gulf War, McMaster led a small troop of tanks through the Iraqi desert.

Page A6 BRITAIN'S (SMALL) TROOP INCREASE Britain has the second-largest troop presence in Afghanistan, behind the United States.

And along with the main characters, spies, menials and a small troop of leather-clad, gold-masked, goose-stepping and straight-arm-saluting soldiers scamper around the stage.

Eventually, two groups were created – a new, relatively small troop set up in the south, leaving the northern part under the control of the original Gombe population.

Its top level consisted of perhaps three people, the police have said, and its small troop of foot soldiers numbered perhaps 10.

"It will be the small troops that decide they don't want to have a homosexual leader, and then where do they go for help?" she asked.

It turned to the War Department, which dispatched small troops of cavalry to superintend the parks -- a role that endured until 1916.

SANTIAGO, Chile — They appear at the student demonstrations that are once again filling the streets and occupying the schools of Santiago, and at the hospitals and police stations where the fallout lands afterward: small troops of observers in blue or white helmets, armed with notebooks, cameras, voice recorders and gas masks.

They are found in small troops on stumps and branches of deciduous and occasionally coniferous trees.

Birds forage in pairs or small troops of up to thirty or even fifty individuals.