Sentence examples for state armies from inspiring English sources

However, aides accompanying him and officials in Jerusalem said that the missiles in question were of a ballistic nature normally used only by state armies.

Indeed, some of the worst fighting today is occurring not between state armies and rebel forces, but between indigenous ethnic militias and the rebel factions that they regard as occupying armies serving outside predators.

The masterminds of the poaching and human killings in these parks are powerful networks of criminals, militias, state armies and corrupt politicians from half a dozen fragile or failing central African countries.

The Bush administration's actions in the Middle East have left him so disgusted that he declares simply, "It seems to me that there is no moral difference between the horror inflicted by state armies (especially if those armies belong to powerful states that are unaccountable to international law) and the horror inflicted by insurgents".

Today the process has moved into the very core of the state: armies, interrogation, evacuations.

Before independence, most law and order duties were the preserve of separate state armies.

The film begins with footage shot from an "Islamic State army" drone.

The United States is not at war with the state army of Afghanistan or its people, but with a small group of terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The next day, as Mr. Assad insisted that the rebels stop shooting first, Mr. Nasrallah called on all Syrians — "people, regime, state, army" — to lay down their arms "simultaneously".

Hezbollah is the world's most powerful nonstate militia, but the group lacks the assets of a major state army and is acutely vulnerable to overstretching.

When an agreement giving Ireland Free Statehood is signed, a part of the band ceases to fight, and its erstwhile leader becomes a Free State army officer.