But how do you disarm a phantom army whose sponsors and leaders deny its existence?

It is as though they were not fighting each other but some phantom German army.

The trees around them stood tall and straight, like a phantom army.

The 1989 budget contains 742 vacant jobs, a "phantom army," as Democratic legislators like to call it.

"If there was a phantom army," he said, "it existed a long time ago."

If the situation calls it, he can call on the powers of the Mahai and conjure a phantom army to defeat multiple enemies.

The legislators called these budget lines the county's "phantom army," whose major role was to provide a source of county funds to be used for emergencies.

"Where did you come up with this phantom army of yours, Cerran?"

It was a phantom army out there.

The older Provinces simply bristle with haunted houses, and march phantom armies along their main thoroughfares.