"troop" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In August 1777, George Washington erected fortifications in the area, expecting to confront British troops recently landed at Head of Elk, Maryland.
- On Sunday crowds demanding the detainees' release marched through the city, confronting troops.
- At times, they prevented Palestinians from confronting Israeli troops.
- But they still do not have the capacity to confront troops in open battle, or capture and keep towns.
- In this case no shots were fired and the strikers did not confront the police or troops.
- At Montréal that September, Lévis and 2,000 troops confronted 17,000 British and American troops.
- And when peace efforts falter, Hamas violence seems to draw support, particularly among young people used to confronting Israeli troops in the uprising and perceiving little immediate benefit from peace.
- There was no room in his thoughts for an eventual day when his weakened armies might also have to confront fresh troops from the New World.
- The intelligence community has had some success hunting Al Qaeda in Iraq, the report found, but that terrorist organization is small and is not the main enemy confronting American troops.
- The plan included the seizure of northern Norway and Sweden and an advance into Finland to confront Soviet troops and naval forces in the Baltic Sea.
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