Sentence examples for territorial troops from inspiring English sources

Under the agreement put into effect by the United Nations, South African forces were confined to their bases starting Saturday, while their territorial troops were to be demobilized.

The state of training of the ten thousand ARVN regulars in the division zone would have sufficed if there had been no war — they could march well enough for a parade — but the majority of the twenty-eight thousand territorial troops would have had trouble parading.

If the regular and provincial guerrillas were killed off or scattered, the Communists would no longer be able to mass a force for big ambushes of road convoys and of Saigon's territorial troops as they marched through the countryside during the day, trying to assert the regime's authority.

The military, accused of widespread human rights abuses since it invaded East Timor, a former Portuguese colony, in 1975, says it has removed all combat troops and reduced the number of personnel, to 6,000 territorial troops and 6,000 local troops, with no combat units.

The first Southern Rhodesian ground forces to be deployed abroad during World War II were 50 Territorial troops under Captain T G Standing, who were posted to Nyasaland in September at the request of the colonial authorities there to guard against a possible uprising by local German expatriates.

The VRS Herzegovina Corps (former JNA 13th Bileća Corps), commanded by Major General Radovan Grubač, consisted of the 10th and 13th Brigades as well as Ljubinje Territorial Defence troops in the area of Mostar and Stolac.

Osama bin Laden's radicalization involved territorial issues — Soviet troops in Afghanistan and then American troops in Saudi Arabia — but his organization ultimately embraced terror not as a means but as an end.

UNPROFOR was tasked with creating buffer zones between the belligerents, disarming the Croatian Serb Territorial Defence Force troops, overseeing the JNA and HV withdrawal from the UNPAs, and the return of refugees to those areas.

There was a conflict with some neighboring troops, a territorial quarrel, and they showered me with a box of bullets from a machine gun.

"The British government has not deployed troops to the territorial waters of Gaza and I do not believe it or our parliament would endorse any breach of international law.

Gone are the days when middle management was expected to lead troops into some territorial battle with rivals.