Sentence examples for was a large force from inspiring English sources

It was a large force when mounted, but when asked to serve dismounted, the cavalry division was only the equivalent of two weakened infantry brigades, with less artillery than an infantry division.

Still, the city's elderly are a large force for these changes.

1,100 miles north of here there is reported to be a large force of Fighting French.

The Republican governors were a large force in the president's election in 2000 and would be in 2004.

While Gulen's followers predominated in the security services, they were not generally believed to be a large force inside the military.

"The Army is spread very thin, and we need it to be a larger force for the number of missions that we were being asked to address for our nation," said Maj. Gen. Gale S. Pollock, the Army's acting surgeon general and head of the Army's Medical Command, on Friday, as the report was released.

Regardless of the number, it is going to be a larger force that Iraqi troops have previously dealt with.

All that stood between them and a royal prize was a large English force under the command of John of Brittany.

In late 1987, US satellite imagery showed that Iran was concentrating a large force east of the southern Iraqi port city of Basra in preparation for a spring offensive.

After Houston received word that Santa Anna was leading a large force to San Antonio, Bowie offered to lead volunteers to defend the Alamo from the expected attack.

"For all these countries in Asia, China is such a large force, the only rational response is to figure out how to work with it," said Nicholas R. Lardy of the Brookings Institution.