(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.
Colonel
Definition:
(n.) The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
(2) Operations are ongoing,” a Pentagon spokesman, army colonel Steve Warren, confirmed on Wednesday afternoon.
(3) We defended this place with honour," Pogukay, a police colonel, said.
(4) Updated at 3.01pm BST 2.17pm BST POLICE CONFIRM DEATH Greek police have confirmed that a man has died during today's protests (as reported at 13.40 ) Greece's police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Christos Manouras says the dead man's body has been taken to Athens' biggest public hospital, Evangelismos.
(5) Since the beginning of December, MNLA leaders have been broadcasting their plans to start an offensive, led by the head of the movement's military wing, Colonel Mohamed Ag Najim.
(6) This is certainly not what Libya was meant to become after the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
(7) She was ambitious, and Colonel Gaddafi has always promoted ruthless people.
(8) Its leader, Colonel Abdou Ndiaye, said his troops had been well received by the Gambian population and had met no resistance from the country’s military.
(9) Following Mexico's example, the Honduran president, Porfirio Lobo, has ordered the military to join the crackdown on organised crime , and the country's latest anti-drug tsar, Colonel Isaac Santos, was drafted in from the army.
(10) Impulsive and bonhomous, Saakashvili, meanwhile, is clearly the temperamental opposite of Putin, the sober and clinical former KGB colonel.
(11) Colonel Kulagin, the other head administrator — the colony is run in tandem — called me in for a conversation on my first day here with the objective to force me to confess my guilt.
(12) We have to stay calm and deal with it.” The son of a lawyer and a dentist with distinctly non-leftist views, Milios is typical of a generation who embraced Marxist ideology during the 1967-74 colonels’ regime.
(13) He admired the demagogic black separatist Louis Farrakhan for his insistence that blacks and whites could never live together, and the dictatorships of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and Ayatollah Khomeini for their hatred of Jews.
(14) Colonel Felix Kulayigye, a Ugandan army spokesman, told reporters that the hunt for Kony would remain on hold "until further notice" because rebel leaders in the Central African Republic were refusing to co-operate with Ugandan troops stationed in the country.
(15) Mousa's father, Daoud Mousa, a police colonel, began a legal battle for a full public inquiry into his son's death.
(16) The Duke of Edinburgh attended in his role as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards.
(17) Colonel Jorge Mendonca was acquitted of failing to ensure that his men did not mistreat prisoners who were being held at a British detention centre in Basra, southern Iraq .
(18) Colonel Thanathip Sawangsaeng, a Thailand Defence Ministry spokesman, denied the allegations.
(19) He added: "The new authorities must make a complete break from the culture of abuse that Colonel al-Gaddafi's regime perpetuated and initiate the human rights reforms that are urgently needed in the country."
(20) While focusing criticism on a few members of the regiment – particularly Corporal Donald Payne, Lieutenant Craig Rodgers and Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Mendonca – the report also passes scathing comment on the role of the unit's regimental medical officer, Dr Derek Keilloh, and its padre, Father Peter Madden.