Sentence examples for substantial force of from inspiring English sources

A substantial force of marines -- officers declined to say how many -- are set to move into the Tikrit area within days to root out Iraqi forces in the city, which is on the west bank of the Tigris 100 miles northwest of Baghdad, and has a population of about 100,000.

I pray that some of those words have been a substantial force of change for someone in my audience.

Like their Fatimid predecessors, the Ayyubid rulers of Egypt maintained a substantial force of Mamluk military slaves.

John built up a strong team of engineers for siege warfare and a substantial force of professional crossbowmen.

If a king was able to muster a substantial force of household knights, this would reduce his dependence on the military service of his subjects.

The latter had exploited the power vacuum in the Rhodope, an effective no man's land between the Serbs, Bulgarians and Byzantines, to set himself up as a quasi-independent prince, supported by a substantial force of around 5,000 men.

In the wake of Buddhism's sway during much of the Tang dynasty, Neo-Confucians of the Song and later dynasties explicitly accounted for the reality of the world by positing a generative substantial force, qi (Japanese: ki), capable of assuming a variety of forms: liquid, solid, and ethereal.

An exchange of unusually warm state visits in 1988 was followed by Soviet promises of substantial force reductions, especially in Europe.

The two essential ingredients for inspections to work, argues Terence Taylor, head of the Washington office of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and himself a former inspector in Iraq, are a Security Council united behind the demand that inspectors must be able to go anywhere, at any time, and the credible threat of substantial force if Iraq fails to comply.

However, this tissue is capable of substantial force generation over short time periods, and its capacity for force generation may be related to its stiffness.

Or unless you're serving Häagen-Dazs with your Dansk ice cream scoop, whose "cap at the end of the handle... can fly off with substantial force [posing] a risk of impact injury".