Sentence examples for tiny army from inspiring English sources

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The second time was on May 16th, when David Granger, a former chief of the country's tiny army, was sworn in as president.

Over the years, members of Belize's tiny army have repeatedly evicted squatters inside the protected areas, leading to the deaths of three Guatemalans in past confrontations.

She might never find out where the infection was, but the antibiotics would shore up his tiny army of white cells and treat it.

It was while recovering from tuberculosis that he started reading voraciously – philosophy and classics in translation as well as contemporary fiction – and it was while living, on a tiny army pension, in Majorca that he started writing.

You have only to remember his comportment during that extraordinary moment when the white minority running South Africa plotted to assassinate China's president during a visit to Zimbabwe, and then to use nuclear weapons against Zimbabwe's tiny army.

The country's largest rebel group joined Burundi's transitional government this week, but Mr Rwasa's tiny army, the Forces of National Liberation FNLL), still loves to lob mortar shells into the richer neighbourhoods of Bujumbura, the capital.

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Jack felt the booming resonance of the surf all the way down to his bones, and he stood very still and watched the sand release its dwellers, tiny armies of crabs rising out of the ground.

In his shared office space in San Francisco – a cool, converted warehouse in the heart of startup land, filled with twentysomethings – he quotes Sun Tzu's The Art of War and points out that even tiny armies can sometimes beat mighty forces.

The game, set slightly in the future, will center around Private Military Contractors (PMCs) -- which are basically tiny armies that will fight for the highest bidder -- and the questionable ethics that surround buying someone's loyalty, the Guardian notes.

And much to the chagrin of parents who have already invested in these tiny armies, the field is only going to further expand this fall when "Lego" enters the market with its "Lego Dimensions" title, a genre and licensing mash-up in production by TT Games and Warner Bros. Interactive that will bring together "Back to the Future," "Batman," "Lord of the Rings," "The Wizard of Oz" and more.

"There's a reason that people spend insane amounts of money buying tiny armies, assembling and painting them, only for them to get flattened by an imaginary cannonball and removed from the field in the first five minutes of a battle," Smith explains.

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