mercenary army

With his private mercenary army, John rapidly rose to the heights of power.

Why not contract our defense to a mercenary army?

One side, the contras, is a mercenary army of intervention.

He has worked for, but unfortunately used, the Company to make himself rich and to obviously now finance his own private mercenary army.

Eventually, they were able to persuade the entire mercenary army to revolt.

Those credits will also buy us ships, weapons, and if need be, mercenary armies.

They swelled the mercenary armies, which played so important a part in the events of this century.

Standing between him is the mercenary army and the Self Gate.

Taken to its ultimate conclusion, would the Bush vision include a mercenary army run by a for-profit business?

And the mercenary army, logically enough, had taken full advantage of the respite.

The mercenary army attempts to fight its way out of the siege, and is totally defeated.

As mercenary armies play a larger role in African politics, debate about the morality of using them has grown.

He supported himself by having a mercenary army.

"We have to be part of the community, not part of some mercenary army that comes and goes."

You have no experience with these mercenary armies.

They were the ones who led Carthage's mercenary army."

The soldiers killed in Vietnam were mainly draftees but they now have a fully mercenary army the same as us.

Besides, how should I ever get firmly esconced in power, without some foreign mercenary army at my back?"

But Bolan knew that the man who led the mercenary army was no Moses.

Enough to raise a mercenary army, sit upon the Ruby Throne, whatever you desire.

I was one of that mercenary army.

At noon of the next day the mercenary army rode swag- gering into the city.

Gorman's mercenary army of fifty men was scattered around the sprawling tent cover.

Orange marched into Brabant, but with money running out he could not maintain his mercenary army and had to retreat.

Further mercenary armies, consisting of Landsknechts, are sent to carry out these orders over the following years.