Sentence examples for troops exercise from inspiring English sources

Will these troops exercise human rights?

Although Russian troops exercise nominal control over Chechnya, such incidents are almost daily occurrences as the war with separatist rebels enters its third year with no end in sight.

It took riot squads six hours to disperse the attackers, apparently because most of the troops exercised restraint: they relied largely on tear-gas, water cannon, shields and clubs, and shots fired in the air.

Backed by more than 200 tanks, armored vehicles and helicopters, about 1,000 infantry troops exercised with live ammunition in rain and fog before Yugoslav generals and a dozen foreign diplomats.

He pointed to an episode in 1998 in which hackers penetrated United States military computers and briefly disrupted troop exercises in the Persian Gulf.

"We are asking our troops to exercise restraint," Mr. Janeh added.

It sounded like a contraption Bradley might have seen in Vietnam, either for the troops to exercise with or, more likely, to torture prisoners.

Page A6 PARAGUAY ISSUES WARNING TO BRAZIL Recent tensions between Brazil and Paraguay caused by Paraguayan farmers invading Brazilian-controlled farms along the countries' border were heating up as Brazilian troops began exercises in the region.

While traditional weapons systems are displayed against Russia - ships and planes and troops on exercises - for all to see in defined areas, the weapons deployed against Isis and other extremist and terrorist groups are invisible.

Many Kazakhs were alarmed when, in August, Mr Putin humiliated Kazakhstan by saying the country had no history and then mustering troops for exercises near the border.But the common market has slashed the number of bribe-hungry customs agents between China and Europe (at the Kazakh-Russian and Russian-Belarusian borders).

So given all this, the presence of thousands of US and Philippine troops holding exercises in Palawan, not far from the Spratly Islands - one of the main disputed areas - is hardly likely to be welcomed in Beijing.