standing army

It is a standing army, not so good as a peace.

Unless this world did not have much of a standing army.

Because he needs to tax the people to pay for his standing armies.

And they were never the threat always presented by a standing army.

They knew firsthand what can happen when the government, its standing army, and the police have too much power.

There was no police force, but common sense dictated the need for a standing army.

The king had wanted to keep open the chance of using the site also as a barracks for a standing army.

Do we need a standing army to drive off invaders?

It has mountains, 100 years of democracy and no standing army.

And there we have the beginnings of a European standing army.

East and West each had maintained a standing army for generations.

Both, by contrast, would reject a standing army or police department.

"We have a number of lands with standing armies already on our side."

Since 2003, it is organized as a fully professional standing army.

The government also created a large standing army with Cuban assistance.

A standing army would have been considered an outrageous expense.

At the time, he began to support a national bank, a stronger navy, and a standing army.

This made them considerably less reliable than a standing army.

The force's 10,000 initial members would not be organized into a separate standing army.

In medieval times there was only a very small standing army of any kingdom.

One reason we are in Iraq is that an imperial president had a standing army at his disposal.

A standing army was created, as was a police force.

We should retain a certain number of them as a standing army, have the men sign up for, say, fifteen years.

Her strength is sorcery, and she has no standing army.

With no standing army the Crown did not require any equivalent military body.