13 sentences with 'campaign'
Example sentences and phrases with the word campaign and other words derived from it.
• « This sum funds the costs of an anti-crime campaign, including the salaries of 50 officers (including police and investigators) and 19 prosecutors dedicated solely to drug-related criminal cases. »
• « In 1995 the police launched an anti-gun campaign and stationed 42 officers in a high-crime area normally policed by four; they confiscated 202 guns and made 94 arrests. »
• « And not only Norway. Treholt had been a diligent veteran of the campaign against the Greek Colonels, the right-wing military junta that took over Greece in 1967, and was thus intimately connected with the socialist government there. »
• « In 1972, he participated in the victorious campaign against his country's entry into the European Economic Community (EEC). »
• « Cyrus II assimilated the Medes into his own military force and then embarked on an incredible campaign of conquest that lasted twenty years, forging Persia into a gigantic empire. »
• « The Macedonian army was composed of free citizens who demanded payment after each campaign, payment that could only be obtained by plundering defeated enemies. »
• « Philip II began a campaign throughout Macedonia and the surrounding areas to the north, defeating and usually killing his rival nobles as well as hostile tribes. »
• « Although Alexander the Great had arrived in Anatolia with only 45,000 men, against a potential Persian army of about 300,000, the Persians had far fewer troops at any given time during the early years of Alexander's campaign. »
• « Crassus had already died in his ill-conceived campaign against the Parthians; his head was used as a prop in a Greek play staged by the Parthian king. »
• « However, instead of leading another glorious military campaign, in March 44 BCE Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of senators who resented his power and wanted to save the Republic. The result was not the restoration of the Republic, however, only a new chapter in Caesar's dictatorship. »
• « In 43 BCE they took control in Rome and then launched a successful campaign against the old Republican loyalists, killing the men who had killed Caesar and assassinating the strongest senators and elites who had tried to restore the old institutions. »
• « Not only did they serve the emperor in the city of Rome, but the Praetorians actively campaigned both in defending Roman territory from invasion (which became a growing problem in the 4th century AD), and with the emperor while he was on campaign. »