Sentence examples for sophisticated armed from inspiring English sources

Though they have never fired a shot in anger, the SDF are among the world's most sophisticated armed forces.

"The spread of cross-border poaching in Central Africa and its links to sophisticated armed groups is alarming.

Still, for many Japanese it rankles that Japan's "self-defence forces", formed in 1954 and among the world's most sophisticated armed forces, cannot call themselves a standing army.

Two of the world's most sophisticated armed forces brushed aside a tinpot army of soldiers without boots, smashed Iraq's cities to pieces, killed thousands of civilians and captured Iraq's oil more or less intact.

In June and again in September, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta MENDD) spearheaded two well-organized, sophisticated armed operations against the oil companies and the federal army, which succeeded in disrupting production and forcing Royal Dutch Shell to suspend production temporarily.

America has the will and possesses the means to maintain the world's most powerful and sophisticated armed forces, to protect itself internally and externally.

Prices for some of the latest experimental drugs unveiled at the EMCC -- including a highly-sophisticated armed antibody drug from Roche and a so-called alpha-pharmaceutical from Bayer and Algeta -- are likely to reach into the tens of thousands of dollars per patient.

On the west coast, in the Gulf of Guinea, "there is a relatively recent phenomenon of well-armed, sophisticated poachers who load their ivory onto Chinese fishing ships," one senior American official said.

These criminals are sophisticated and well-armed.

A: Indian Point is defended by armed guards, sophisticated detection equipment and other advanced protection systems that meet or exceed federal, state and local requirements.

Israel fears that Hizbullah, the Lebanese Shias' party-cum-militia, will end up hardened by war and armed with sophisticated weapons.