We have gold, but I need to keep it in reserve if I can, to pay my own troops.

Since Iraq lacks an effective banking system for paying its troops, soldiers are generally given a week's leave each month to bring their pay home.

He met with little success, however, owing to a desperate shortage of funds to pay his troops.

As winter approached and he had no money to pay his troops they were unable to provide sufficient food and shelter for themselves.

Do you know, sometimes I can't even pay my troops?

"But how do we pay your troops in a long war?"

Sweden received an indemnity of five million talers, used primarily to pay her troops.

William was prepared to wait; he had paid his troops in advance for a three-month campaign.

And now they both pillage the countryside to pay their troops.

It works particularly when we pay our troops well.