On the other hand, having a strong army may help to ensure that relations with Peru stay peaceful.
The thinking was that there would never be any meaningful development in Sierra Leone until a strong army, answerable to a democratically-elected government, was in place.
We have a strong army, we have a lot of our people who are supporting the government, who are uniting their ranks to defend the country.
We have asked for the support of the United Nations on various levels: first of all, on the military level, because a strong army and strong armed forces could defend Lebanon against hostility of the enemy.
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Southern politicians have been quite open in their desire to build up a strong army, despite the provisions against rearming contained in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005, in case they have to return to war with the north.
Helping the paid staff is a 50-strong army of volunteers, the Friends of Edgcumbe Park.
We are now one step closer to the dream of conquering the world with a million-strong army of robotic roaches.
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Mr Lebed, a law-and-order nationalist with a strong claim on the army vote, is taking quite a risk with his career.
The government has established a strong police and army presence within the city, but the violence there and in other more rural parts of the state has continued.
Guinea owes its peacefulness (a recent coup attempt and minor uprising aside) to a strong, centralised army and its rulers' flair for dividing their acolytes and battering dissenters.
Beneath your feet spreads out the world's largest carpet, made by a 1, 200-strong army of the finest Persian carpet weavers.
"This was necessary because the multi-ethnic army became undependable, " Landis said of the huge army with a strong Sunni presence.
But in any case the Pakistani military is a very strong military - it has a half a million standing army.
Even the pro-democracy leader agrees that the army should play a strong continuing role.
The 50, 000-strong army has been a pioneer of Cuban capitalism, acquiring interests in agriculture, tourism and industry.
Mr. Karzai remains suspicious, too, of the second main pillar of the American war plan: the creation of a 352, 000-strong Afghan army and police force.
He wants a strong peso, would put the army on the streets to fight crime and, in foreign policy, would return Argentina to automatic alignment with the United States.
It's not simply that the Pakistan government is bifurcated into a weak elected civilian government that is barely functional and a strong unelected government, the Pakistani Army, which still controls the country's national security policy.
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But Syria, which dominates Lebanon with a 35, 000-strong occupying army, does not want to let the citizens of northern Israel sleep soundly until it secures the return of its own occupied territory, the Golan Heights.
He is likely to use it to ensure a strong role for the president and for the army even after civilians return to power.
General Musharraf will no doubt say that a strong presidency and a constitutional role for the army are preferable to lurching from democracy to dictatorship and back, as Pakistan has done throughout its 54-year history.
Mr. GOCSHEL: The people who drew up the plans for Lebanon didn't want the central state to have strong order like an army and a police who could tell those sectarian groups and militias or who could keep them, you know, under control.
While the United States is moving forward in reorienting and restructuring its military strategy, Russia is showing once again how far it is moving backward by focusing so much of its strategy on maintaining strong nuclear forces and a million-man army to protect against a mythical U.S. and NATO enemy.
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This is why many see the looming presidential election as a test of wills between the Islamists who dominate parliament and SCAF, which sees a strong presidency as its last chance of protecting the army's privileges.
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There is a notion, dear to America, that General Musharraf could be a strong civilian president, overseeing the prime minister and the army.
The Afghan army, the first step in a possible cantonal system with strong central institutions, is making slow progress.
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There will likely be a significant drop-off in demand for the munitions that the unit supplies to the Army and Marine Corps, but GD has built up a strong base of support in Congress for protecting its core vehicle franchises.
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Bozize was a strong supporter of African efforts to dismantle Kony's Lord's Resistance Army and allowed the creation of two anti-Kony military bases in his country.
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