(v. t.) A fleet of armed ships; a squadron. Specifically, the Spanish fleet which was sent to assail England, a. d. 1558.
Example Sentences:
(1) A revised policy would have to fulfil the twin objectives of ending the torture and other violations without rekindling the armada of boats.
(2) The study was done in three health care systems in the region: civil servants ("Mutualidad de Funcionarios Civiles del Estado: MUFACE") armed forces group ("Instituto Social de las Fuerzas Armadas: ISFAS") and the national system ("Instituto Nacional de la Salud: INSALUD").
(3) The party still faces a barrage of tactical voting by the right and left to stop it winning final-round votes – described by one Lille party worker as “the onslaught of an armada”.
(4) His invasion fleet of 463 ships, twice the size of the Armada, set sail in 1688.
(5) They danced, prayed and sang – and stood in long lines in front of the armadas of portable bathrooms along the beachfront.
(6) The government sent skimmers and booms to help clear up the oil , while BP recruited an "armada" of fishermen , otherwise banned from fishing for shrimp off the waters off Louisiana, to help lay some of the 2.25 million feet of containment booms to contain the slick.
(7) López Rivera eventually became a member of a clandestine group called Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional , which argued that armed force was a justified tactic in the fight for Puerto Rican independence.
(8) Col Tejero ignored Gen Armada and, instead of negotiating the formation of a government of national unity, demanded the creation of military junta.
(9) Only bad weather helped it avert a true disaster when the Spanish armada tried to invade in 1588.
(10) That said, however, it seems there is no direct correlation between the game and the film, in which a fleet of US ships is attacked by an armada of alien invaders, known as The Regents.
(11) Israel's deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, said: "The armada of hate and violence in support of the Hamas terror organisation was a premeditated and outrageous provocation.
(12) Sitting ducks for an armada of hackers, who are every bit as focused on stealing our data as we are relaxed about storing it.
(13) "It was the king himself who, after realising the nature of the threats to Spain, democracy and the crown ... had proposed to me in 1980 that I might head a government of unity," Gen Armada told his prison chaplain shortly after starting his 30-year jail sentence, the book reports.
(14) Col Tejero gave himself up and Gen Armada was soon discovered to have masterminded the plot.
(15) He howled when Diaz tried to boast about his armada of fighting coaches, portraying them as battle-tested kickboxing warriors as opposed to McGregor’s more eclectic group of movement and striking coaches.
(16) They were sure that Juan Carlos would respond by calling on the aristocratic Gen Armada, his former personal secretary, to lead a government of national unity.
(17) "The forecasts were correct, but it was soon clear that the armadas of ice that suddenly started to appear were thick and old."
(18) They showed 82% approval among viewers for the coverage of the armada along the river Thames.
(19) "He always told me I should trust Armada, that the best solution was a government of national unity led by him."
(20) Newly revealed transcripts of phone conversations between the king and Gen Armada show that, whatever may have been said before, Juan Carlos never wavered in his opposition to the coup once it started.
Army
Definition:
(n.) A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.
(n.) A body of persons organized for the advancement of a cause; as, the Blue Ribbon Army.
(n.) A great number; a vast multitude; a host.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(2) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(3) To identify the responsible virus and the consequences of the epidemic, during 1985 we interviewed and serologically screened 597 veterans who had been in the army in 1942.
(4) Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, Army Reserve.
(5) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
(6) Its current troubles are in part due to the fact that Colt lost out on the M4 US army contract to FN Herstal in 2013.
(7) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(8) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
(9) Rising losses among the nearly 350,000-strong Afghan army and police, and a desertion rate of about 50,000 a year, also support Karzai's contention that control of large parts of the country remains tenuous.
(10) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
(11) The army has said it will deploy troops on the streets on that day, while the president says he may introduce a state of emergency if, as expected, the protests spark widespread civil unrest.
(12) Partly due to the separation between military and humanitarian work, few if any of the necessary direct conversations between aid agencies and army about the attack on Mosul have taken place.
(13) Dealers speculated that Facebook's army of bankers had stepped in to stop the shares falling below $38, a move that would have landed the social network with a public relations disaster on its first day as a public company.
(14) Applications from Serbia, which account for 10% of the total, stem mostly from the dissolution of former Yugoslavia: payment of army reservists, access to savings in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, pensions in Kosovo.
(15) This is a moral swamp, but it's one the Salvation Army claims to be stepping into out of charity .
(16) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
(17) It was quiet on the main Manshiya front near the border with Jordan, which he said had been the site of some of the heaviest army bombing in recent weeks.
(18) Seroprevalence in diverse Thai groups included 6% of men with sexually transmitted diseases, 15% of prostitutes, and 6% of army recruits.
(19) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
(20) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.