Sentence examples for soldiers count from inspiring English sources

Nor does he want to exhume and repatriate the 500-odd Poles buried in war graves in the Netherlands – presumably fallen soldiers count as permanent residents.

Government statistics said that 34 civilians and 2 soldiers — counting the general — had been killed since Thursday, and 256 people had been wounded, almost all of them civilians.

Still, the spectre that haunts me is the same – ordinary people facing off against an autocrat's airpower and well-armed soldiers, counting on the free world to protect them against massacre after we have applauded and bolstered their bravery with our words.

The Australian soldiers counted 389 Japanese dead and took 11 prisoners.

Video from inside the camp shows Israeli soldiers counting down "three, two, one" in Hebrew before they blow up the home.

The mural along Pacific Avenue has a message at the top reading "You Are Not Forgotten" and bears the names of 2,273 soldiers counted as either prisoners of war or missing in action in Vietnam.

Did receiving payment as a soldier count as professional status?

James is in a masculine tango with Anthony Mackie, who plays Sergeant J.T. Sanborn, a realistic professional soldier counting the days to the end of his tour.

The people we glimpse in this novel's opening chapter — Eliska, two Communist soldiers, a count who is an alleged Nazi collaborator, a neighboring aristocrat, and the baby — are revealed at intervals over the following forty years... Nearly all of them earn our pained affection View Article By Alan Burdick By Larissa MacFarquhar By Phil Klay By Charles Bethea.

The practice of relying on relatively small quantities of American soldiers who count on air power to provide the fire they need to combat the enemy goes back to the Bush administration's initial decision to keep the invasion force in Afghanistan as small as possible.

But this year Obama committed some 21,000 additional soldiers, and counting.