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Troops in sentence

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But I understand, I know I'm not going to rally you guys, I'm not going to rally the troops to "Save the Everglades for the gators!"
In one incident, Achilles, the famous warrior of Greece, takes his troops out of the war, and the whole war effort suffers.
These walls were wide enough to have four men ride side by side, allowing troops to be rushed wherever they were needed.
The Ho Chi Minh Trail, winding through Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, started as a simple network of dirt roads and blossomed into the centerpiece of the winning North Vietnamese strategy during the Vietnam War, supplying weapons, troops, and psychological support to the South.
The first troops moved in single-file along routes used by local ethnic groups, and broken tree branches at dusty crossroads were often all that indicated the direction.
The first troops down the trail did not engage in much fighting.
Soon other troops began performing in the same style, and Kabuki made history as Japan's first dramatic performance form catering to the common people.
Indeed, Kabuki was even considered a popular form of entertainment amongst American troops stationed in Japan despite initial U.S. censorship of Japanese traditions.
It is manning the troops.
The nation I'm building, the marathon I'm running, the troops, the canvas, the high note, the hum, the hum, the hum.
The nation I'm building, the marathon I'm running, the troops, the canvas, the high note does not exist.
The more I play, the more I feel the hum, the nation I'm building, the marathon I'm running, the troops, the canvas, the high note, the hum, the hum, the other hum, the real hum, life's hum.
A general wouldn't march his troops into battle unless he had a plan to win the war.
So I had to basically spend the last week calming everyone down, a bit like a general, where you're holding your troops back: "Calm, remain calm."
They had demobilized 10 million troops, they were focused on an urgent domestic agenda.
But as people began to appreciate how devastated Europe was and how aggressive Soviet communism was, Americans eventually decided to tax themselves a percent and a half of GDP every year for four years and send that money to Europe to help reconstruct these countries, including Germany and Italy, whose troops had just been killing Americans.
Postwar Kosovo was a very interesting place because NATO troops were there, mostly to make sure the war didn't break out again.
After the war, you tear that up, you put 100,000 troops in Europe for over 40 years.
We should have had 250,000 troops streaming into Iraq on the heels of that Leviathan sweeping towards Baghdad.
He’s not taking care of his troops.
And the peacekeepers I've mentioned, the force has been authorized, but almost no country on Earth has stepped forward since the authorization to actually put its troops or its police in harm's way.
Let me go door-to-door to the international community and see if anybody will give me police or troops to do the separation.
And their response, of course, was no more than we wanted to stop the genocide and put our troops in harm's way to do that, nor do we now want to get in the way and pluck genocidaires from camps.
"It's like a video game," is what one young pilot described to me of taking out enemy troops from afar.
And I was watching television in New York, and there seemed to be just one point of view that was coming across, and the coverage went from the US State Department to embedded troops.
During the Civil War, she became involved with the Union Army, recruiting soldiers and organizing supplies for Black troops.
Because if some of your troops get diarrhea they're not that effective on the battlefield.
American troops were sent to protect the relief shipments, but they were eventually drawn into the conflict, and after the tragic battle in Mogadishu, they were withdrawn.
When war with Iraq was imminent, I realized the American troops would be very well covered, so I decided to cover the invasion from inside Baghdad.
Last year I spent several months documenting our wounded troops, from the battlefield in Iraq all the way home.
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