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Recent Examples of national guardBut there are a number of national guard and other military bases in the area.—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024 Related article Italy ships migrants to Albania for first time under controversial plan
Five survivors from the same boat were rescued, according to the national guard.—Billy Stockwell, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024 After an initial round of expansion following Russia’s wider invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian ground forces—the army, air assault forces, marine corps, national guard and territorials—could deploy a hundred brigades, each with around 2,000 people.—David Axe, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 The proportion of women in Ukraine’s national guard, whose members are excluded from the official count of armed forces but who also often serve on the frontlines, has fallen by nearly half since Russia invaded.—Olga Oliker, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2022 See all Example Sentences for national guard
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With 1.2 million troops, North Korea’s military ranks among the world’s largest standing armies, and its entry into the war was a profound escalation in a war now approaching its fourth year.
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Marc Santora,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
China has the most manpower, with the largest standing army in the world.
The foxes are a legacy of the 2006 war between Lebanon's Hezbollah militia and Israel, when the animals moved down to the coast to escape fighting in the hills.
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Jane Arraf,
NPR,
22 Jan. 2025
Trump commuted the sentence of Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right militia group Oath Keepers.
Many are stuck in third countries, including one former member of the Afghan army in Pakistan who spoke to USA TODAY on the condition of anonymity for fear of their safety.
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Chris Kenning,
USA TODAY,
23 Jan. 2025
The Mother of Dragons herself, Daenerys Targaryen, embodies the cultural fear of and fascination with a petite, white female wielding her dragons—not a husband or son—to build a seemingly socially just army that will brutally conquer in her name.
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Rebecca Scofield / Made by History,
TIME,
21 Jan. 2025
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