Strength
Over 35,000 serve in all districts and provinces. Mostly deployed in villages effected from attacks by the LTTE, in the Northern and the Eastern provinces. They are also deployed in major cities and towns to assist the police maintain public security.
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Famous quotes containing the word strength:
“We meet I don’t say when
But must bring to the meeting the maturest,
The longest-saved-up, raciest, localest
We have strength of reserve in us to bring.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army’s strength is the foot soldiers.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)