One of them had an automatic pistol, but they seemed to be lightly armed.

It is no easy thing to run about on a battlefield lightly armed.

But they're lightly armed, and they don't fight very often.

The peacekeeping troops are lightly armed and did not expect combat.

Lightly armed, we might get three battalions there inside a week.

But it has not authorized them to impose an end to the fighting, and they are in any case too lightly armed to do so.

The 12th army from Nanjing along the coast is more lightly armed.

Many of them are cut off, and they are only lightly armed.

Members of this mission could be lightly armed with defensive weapons, he said.

However, lightly armed, small in number and often subject to mechanical failure, they made little impact.

How could my small and lightly armed patrol vessels stop a ship they cannot even see?

Not all by himself, in a lightly armed cargo vessel.

This fleet of 24 much smaller and lightly armed ships.

The lightly armed force of about 1,000 includes nearly 400 American soldiers.

The lightly armed native forces under the command of the Brothers soon fled from the battle.

As a consequence, the lightly armed scout platoon was forced to fall back.

It calls for putting 600,000 Nicaraguans under arms, most of them in a lightly armed militia.

The lightly armed paratroopers would have to attack the air base defenses.

Middle Finger didn't have an army; just a lightly armed police force to keep order.

This time, they were not met by a lightly armed reconnaissance craft.