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With the help of a graduate student, Tricia Clement, he trained a small band of pigeons to tap on a button if they wanted a snack.

Kim Jong Il, North Korea's leader, was born in 1942 in Khabarovsk, a Russian city about 450 miles up the railroad from here, where his father, Kim Il Sung, trained a small military unit under Soviet supervision.

Two years ago, Jean-Pierre Gauvin, who trained a small string of horses in relative obscurity near Lyon, went to a stud in Normandy to look at some yearlings.

For his popular individualized instruction courses in biochemistry, he has trained "a small army" of undergraduate teaching assistants, "most of whom have taken the class, performed at a very high level, and realized their passion for the subject," he says on his faculty page.

The Saudis have so far showed a reluctance to intervene on the ground to secure Aden, and have instead air dropped supplies to loyalist fighters and trained a small number of Yemenis to help organise the local resistance to the Houthis.

The CIA is known to have trained a small number of Syrian rebels at bases in Jordan in an attempt to drive a wedge between jihadist groups such as the al-Qaida-aligned Jabhat al-Nusra, which continues to gain prominence in key Syrian battlefronts.

Maybe then he will train a small group of runners privately.

Moreover, the Navy wanted, for the same purpose, to train a small nucleus of skilled personnel.

Combat drill trains a small unit in the looser, extended formations and movements of battle.

General Downing, however, believed even before going to the White House that only a few hundred Americans would be needed to train a small Iraqi opposition force.

The violent attempts used to tame and train a small boy at school and at home are contrasted with the careful taming of the kestrel by Casper himself.