1.   The army was well-trained and well-armed, and had little difficulty defeating the rebels.

2.   The government, however, issued a call for a general mobilization to defeat the rebels.

3.   British and French forces help the Qing defeat rebels, who had nearly toppled the empire.

4.   But at the last minute, Kabila won the support of several neighbors, including Angola and Zimbabwe, whose troops helped him defeat the rebels in western Congo.

5.   Defeating the rebels in Grozny is likely to take some time.

6.   In order to defeat the rebels, Arbatov said, federal troops must find a way to distinguish civilians from rebel fighters.

7.   Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski, a hawk who has repeatedly called for the army to defeat the rebels, walked out of the news conference.

8.   She said that the ethnic conflict would not end even if the Sri Lankan military defeated the rebels.

9.   The former KGB spy has linked his political aspirations and future to the success of that campaign, and has vowed to defeat the rebels.

10.   The Yugoslav army, they said, may have already achieved its goal of defeating Kosovo rebels and expelling hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians.