Sentence examples for troops soldiers from inspiring English sources

In almost every case where US courts tried US troops, soldiers were acquitted or received relatively brief prison sentences.

On March 28 , 1796 he made his first proclamation to his troops: Soldiers, you are naked, badly fed.…Rich provinces and great towns will be in your power, and in them you will find honour, glory, wealth.

And with hundreds of journalists "embedded" in the troops, soldiers may have a better idea of overall operations, while viewers and readers have a much better sense of the life of the grunts and the strategy of the generals.

At the same time, the job of identifying Taliban and Al Qaeda targets, as separate from Northern Alliance troops, soldiers loyal to a southern Pashtun tribes and even Afghan civilians, has become increasingly difficult, given the turmoil in the region.

What the hospital had not bargained for was the steady stream of less seriously injured troops: soldiers hurt in traffic accidents, suffering from heatstroke or afflicted by kidney stones, which were particularly common during the summer, when many soldiers became dehydrated.

At a Greater London Authority meeting on Wednesday, Mayor Livingstone suggested that Havelock - who once told his troops: "Soldiers, your valour will not be forgotten by a grateful country" - and another veteran of the Raj, General Sir Charles Napier, be moved from their plinths to make way for more recognisable figures.

The screenplay by Seth Lochhead and David Farr is itself a patchwork of action-movie themes — including storm-trooping soldiers in black helicopters and an intelligence agency with a covert program — that have been recombined along Grimm Brothers story lines.

Such interventions may directly modify neurological activity and can be used to exert some degree of control over ground troop soldiers.

And in Sierra Leone -- where the recent list of charges (to be tried by a U.N. war crimes tribunal) against the government's former deputy minister of defense includes human sacrifice and cannibalism carried out by his troops -- soldiers on all sides of the country's civil war dabbed themselves with the blood of ceremonial victims, often pregnant women and children, to ensure victory in battle.

France's colonial troops included soldiers from Algeria, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Chad, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Niger and the Republic of Congo.

About 70 people have been killed since Sunday in gun battles between government troops and soldiers allied with the opposition.