1.   ...elite forces, comprising about one-tenth of the strength of the army.

2.   Akayev said an elite force had been trained for mountain combat and provided with communications and night-vision equipment from the United States.

3.   But she wants to be a starship pilot, an elite force.

4.   He trained with the elite forces of the United States, France, Great Britain and Israel.

5.   It casts Smith as a New York City police officer recruited by the Men in Black, an elite force who combat aliens living among us.

6.   Just as the Serb warlord Arkan called his paramilitaries the Tigers, the Macedonians have adopted the habit of naming elite forces and paramilitaries after big cats.

7.   Last month, for example, special elite forces and commandos raided a Taliban compound and an airfield near Kandahar.

8.   Most alarming has been a shift of elite Syrian forces in Lebanon to positions that threaten an Israeli outpost on Mount Hermon, the strategic peak southwest of Damascus.

9.   Now, the Germans have good elite forces.

10.   Over the next two years, they will train and equip an elite force in the Georgian army specifically to assert authority over Pankisi Gorge.