Significados de maintain an army em inglês

Only so can a general maintain an army in an enemy's country.

We must maintain an army at that immense distance.

Ormisda does not know it, but I have decided to maintain an army at Ctesiphon indefinitely.

How should we maintain an army, except by preying on the people, and thus discontenting them?

To maintain an army composed of such heterogeneous parts required an iron discipline; so the least fault was punished by beating.

In the illusion of conquering the Turkish resistance, she is now obliged to maintain an army twice as big as that of the British Empire!

Beggared and outcast, with literally scarce a shirt to his back, without money to pay a corporal's guard, how was he to maintain an army?

Pressed by enemies on her land frontiers, she was compelled to maintain an army of 57,000 men in addition to her navy.

He maintained an army of one hundred and twenty thousand men.

The king was wealthy, and maintained an army of 3000 horse, and a large body of infantry.

It maintained an army of twenty thousand Spanish soldiers, and its harbors were always filled with Spanish vessels.

He was charged with the destruction of the desert-city, and maintaining an army of slaves in the Khedive's dominions- amenaceto the country.

At the same time, Tajikistan is heavily dependent on Russia for economic and strategic aid and Moscow maintains an army division on Tajik soil.

"Oh, yes, it appointed postmasters and tidewaiters, maintained an army and navy, and picked quarrels with foreign countries."