Sentence examples for source of soldiers from inspiring English sources

"New York has long been a source of soldiers," said the historian Kenneth Jackson, whose specialty is the city.

Mantineia, ancient Greek city of Arcadia, situated about eight miles north of modern Trípolis between Mt. Maínalon and Mt. Artemísion, mentioned as a source of soldiers in the catalog of ships in Book II of Homer's Iliad.

The keystone of Roman power was the pater familias; the patriarchal system was its tax base and source of soldiers for its legions.

With "fighting ISIS" little more than their cover story, the Russians are now serving as Assad's air force, as well as his chief weapons supplier and possible source of "volunteer" soldiers. .

The Convention was the accepted source of authority, and soldiers and executioners alike followed its orders to a remarkable degree and accepted its rules and decisions, even as the Revolution turned on the revolutionaries.

At Walter Reed the process has taken an average of over 200 days, a source of frustration to soldiers and families who are awaiting decisions about what benefits they will receive if they retire.

As the article recounts, the members of Charlie Company, burdened and primed for revenge, believed My Lai and its inhabitants to be a source of their fellow-soldiers' deaths.

Entocycle, which is currently participating in Y Combinator, wants to solve the food chain conundrum with another source of protein: black soldier flies.

'His leadership, courage and humanity remain a source of inspiration for serving soldiers here today.

It would be a source of pain for American soldiers to be turned into an ornament for a would-be strong man — to be used as his trophies.

This was a tag indicating the presence of a tribe that has enjoyed the support of the Qaddafi government, and that rebels say is in turn the source of many pro-Qaddafi soldiers.