manpower

Example Sentences

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"Military forced conscription became the main challenging factor for us on the battlefield as it enabled the military with limitless manpower," he explains as he takes his men on patrol in the sweltering heat.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Would an infusion of paper money not, at least, have softened the price-chopping transition to steam from sail, to rails from horses and to machinery from manpower?

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Nigel Gould-Davies, of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, says with Russia "facing growing industrial and manpower constraints, it must soon decide whether to forcibly mobilise its economy and society".

From BBC • May 26, 2026

But it isn’t only Ukraine that has manpower problems.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

The Germans no longer had the manpower to make up for their losses, while more and more Allied divisions were moving up to the frontlines.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman