(1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
(2) The group was one of the few in Syria to have received anti-tank rockets and had regularly used them against Syrian armour.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An armoured vehicle manned by pro-Russian rebels leaves Donetsk in the direction of the MH17 crash site.
(4) He explained that in Iraq , vehicles loaded with explosive devices only had their hazard warning lights on.” When Fitzsimons applied for a job in Iraq with the security firm Armour Group Security , owned by G4S, he didn’t tell his family.
(5) France was meanwhile leading a push, which diplomats said was backed by Britain, to hit more strategic military targets in Libya, beyond tactical airstrikes on Gaddafi's armour in the vicinity of cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya.
(6) - 16: Ukrainian troops turn back from Slavyansk after pro-Russians seize six armoured vehicles.
(7) In January last year, Rupert Hamer, defence correspondent of the Sunday Mirror, became the first British journalist to be killed in Afghanistan when the armoured vehicle in which he was travelling was hit by a roadside bomb.
(8) This soft body armour was applied, either in direct contact with the thoracic wall of the animals, or with different plastic foam sheets, so-called trauma packs, between the armour and the skin.
(9) Speaking outside Battlesbury barracks in Warminster, Wiltshire, Stenning said: "Barely 48 hours ago, we heard the terrible news that six soldiers from The 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment were declared missing, believed killed, after their Warrior armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.
(10) The Americans went first, a great convoy of armoured Jeeps snaking out from their fortified embassy under air cover.
(11) On the ground in east Ukraine , a rebel armoured column moved from the town of Novoazovsk, seized last week, in the direction of Mariupol, a major port city that the Ukrainians have said they will defend against any assault.
(12) Triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) were measured by radioimmunoassay in Pronase hydrolysates of four lots each of 1- and 2-grain tablets of desiccated thyroid (Thyroid, Armour) and thyroglobulin (Proloid, Warner-Chilcott).
(13) Two mammoth C17 military transport aircraft were on the tarmac, one of which landed in front of us, the other unloading jeeps and armoured vehicles.
(14) Shadowtroopers and AT-AT walkers should keep the geeks happy At-AT walkers Photograph: YouTube Black-armoured stormtroopers have featured in numerous (largely non-canonical) Star Wars novels, games and comic books over the years, but never in the movies themselves.
(15) In Bani Walid, south of Tripoli, tank transporters carrying dirty armoured fighting vehicles drew a small crowd, and an appreciative volley of machine gun fire.
(16) Police cracked down on the protests with a militarised presence including armoured vehicles and dozens of armed officers in riot gear .
(17) The six trained together, were dispatched to Afghanistan together and, in the end, perished together when their armoured vehicle was hit by a massive Taliban bomb.
(18) US aircraft have targeted armoured vehicles and militant positions in a second day of strikes against Islamic State forces.
(19) "We have been promised a mobile strike force of 800 men with up-armour [shaped to deflect road mines] and advanced weaponry.
(20) I only saw one chink in Rowland’s impassive armour: his customary nod to the judge, as Mitting left, accompanied by a movement of the lips that looked very like “thank you”.
Breastplate
Definition:
(n.) A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.
(n.) A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool.
(n.) A strap that runs across a horse's breast.
(n.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.
Example Sentences:
(1) Often, denim was used in unexpected ways: Louis Vuitton had boiler suits decorated with sparkling mini-mirrors; Craig Green fashioned breastplates from the material, held together with dozens of ties.
(2) The collar is constructed from nylon and polyvinyl chloride tubing, clipped together by nylon junctions, and from chin and breastplate supports of molded nylon rod.
(3) There’s an old, often detestable, tyrannical-academic school, the abomination of desolation in fact, men having, so to speak, a suit of armour, a steel breastplate of prejudices and conventions.” The detestable old tyrants were able to organise appointments to suit their own proteges, he wrote.
(4) "This is cool," she says, admiring a breastplate from ancient Colombia.
(5) But he wanted it only after subjecting the form to its limits, stuffing it with random accreted details - like the man fighting at the barricades, who "had padded his chest with a breastplate of nine sheets of grey packing paper and was armed with a saddler's awl".
(6) We have used this material on 8 occasions after various tumour resections: 3 times after subtotal resection of the sternochrondral breastplate and 5 times after lateral or anterolateral resection removing at least 2 ribs.
(7) The cephalic part is first molded and then integrated solidly into the thoracic part (breastplate and backplate).
(8) My guides, including senior curator and anthropologist Michael Pickering, opened and slid out for me countless humidity-controlled cupboards and deep drawers containing precious items in tissue paper: botanist Joseph Banks's 18th-century florilegium engravings, convict "love pennies" (coins filed flat by convicts about to be transported from England to the colony, inscribed with messages), breastplates given by white settlers to "tamed" Aboriginal people, convict leg irons.
(9) The Squad proudly proclaim their mission as “suicide”, and even though they have a chance to continue their run at the Romans, they lift their breastplates and stab themselves in the heart.
(10) "My partner Jane made the breastplates from papier-mâché and all that."