The police estimated the crowd at 5,000, a big turnout in a city where such large-scale mobilization is unusual.

But military officials concede that in the period since the Vietnam War there has never been a large-scale mobilization that would truly test this arrangement.

Consequently they were taken by surprise when the British responded with a large-scale mobilization, and a task force to retake the islands.

With limited regular troops at their disposal, the British commanders realized that success depended on a large-scale mobilization of Loyalists.

This was not yet a mass movement, but the basis for a large-scale mobilization of anti-war opinion was at last being laid.

Senior military officials said large-scale mobilizations would not begin before January, and even then they would probably be made in stages to soften the political impact.

But Pentagon officials say they have seen no sign of such a large-scale mobilization.

Japan's military seized German possessions in the Pacific and East Asia, but there was no large-scale mobilization of the economy.

The traditional practice became relevant with large-scale, political mobilizations by women from 1958 until 1961.

World War I marked the first large-scale mobilization of science for military purposes.