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Recent Examples of national guardMexico is also sending 10,000 national guard troops to its side of the border as part of an agreement to pause tariffs.—Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2025 The Ukrainian national guard’s 5th Special Forces Regiment has been firing Javelins at night.—David Axe, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025 But there are a number of national guard and other military bases in the area.—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 27 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 See All Example Sentences for national guard
In these, the enemy is not a standing army but various terrorist organizations and looser categories of hostiles, enmeshed in large civilian populations.
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Colin Jones,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2025
The Ukrainian leader also mentioned maintaining the country’s standing army of about one million soldiers and a peacekeeping contingent from European countries, or some combination of these measures.
According to The Moscow Times, Adam has received at least 16 state awards and has served as his father's chief bodyguard and an observer for a rifle battalion under the Russian Defense Ministry since 2023.
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Isabel van Brugen,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2025
One battalion meets the time requirement some of the time; two others consistently fail to meet it.
At times the mines were also under control of the Wazalendo, a militia allied with the Congolese army.
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David Yusufu Kibingila,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2025
And while the nearby Financial District’s diminished army of commuters can’t be relied on to keep bars and restaurants afloat, it’s being gradually replaced by a full-time population of residents.
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