(n.) A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.
(n.) A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle.
(v. t.) To form into battalions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The huge new TV money first arrived in 1992 after Rupert Murdoch’s executives realised that only football could bring the battalions of addicted subscribers they needed to grow Sky TV.
(2) In a summit in Paris last week, the west African nations of Cameroon, Chad and Niger agreed to each contribute a battalion to form a border patrol troop based around the arid Sahelian belt, large swaths of which have fallen under the control of Islamist terrorists in recent years.
(3) Most are members of existing rebel battalions or groups who decided to come under the Liwa al-Ummah umbrella; others signed up as individuals ...
(4) 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.
(5) The battalion's symbol is reminiscent of the Nazi Wolfsangel , though the battalion claims it is in fact meant to be the letters N and I crossed over each other, standing for "national idea".
(6) While they were in Donetsk, Bolotkhanov and his men released a video saying they had come to Donetsk to find Isa Munayev , a 1990s Chechen commander who had since lived as a refugee in Denmark and then arrived in Ukraine to found the Dudayev battalion.
(7) By 5pm, as the sun began to set, the army of police that had once occupied the city centre in their battalions and stood on the Nile bridges, had been diminished.
(8) The Russian defence ministry said on Monday that a motorised defence infantry battalion stationed near the Ukrainian border for "training" for a month had begun the journey back to its base.
(9) We are redeploying 25km [outside Juba] but even if it is one battalion remaining and again they clash, is it really difficult to come back to Juba?” While the cantonment of troops may be a first step to end fighting, fundamental reforms of the security sector are needed to professionalise an army notorious for lack of discipline, human rights abuses and tribalism.
(10) Results indicated the following: 1) at some point during the exercises, everyone became sleep deprived; 2) the participants who received the most rest of the group were the enlisted headquarters personnel and the pilots; 3) the soldiers who received the least amount of sleep were the commander of the battalion and the maintenance personnel.
(11) Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former battalion commander in the Khmer Rouge, who has ruled his country for 30 years, will visit Australia in December.
(12) A former head of one of Kenya's paratroop battalions, he was appointed by Kibaki as commissioner of police in 2004 after more than 25 years in the military, the first ever commissioner appointed from outside the force.
(13) The soldier, the 294th to have died in Afghanistan since 2001, was from the 2nd Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, the MoD said.
(14) The weapons market, a long row of one-room shops selling enough small and medium arms to equip a small battalion, marked the end of the state’s nominal control.
(15) The proliferation of these battalions also poses important questions for the postwar settlement, and Poroshenko will need to find a way to integrate the groups either into the army or back into civilian life when the conflict in the east is over.
(16) The retired appeal court judge's report, which runs to three volumes, found that troops from 1st Battalion Queen's Lancashire Regiment inflicted "gratuitous" violence on a group of 10 Iraqi civilians, who were kicked and hit in turn, "causing them to emit groans and other noises and thereby playing them like musical instruments".
(17) His huge entourage includes a battalion of security guards and female dining companions.
(18) If you capture one of them, it’s too risky to bring them back across the lines, so you just give them time to say their prayers, and the last words they will hear on this earth are ‘Glory to Ukraine!’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Apti Bolotkhanov, commander of the ‘Death Battalion’ of Chechens who fought on the side of the pro-Russian rebels.
(19) Luke Farmer, also 19, had only completed his training nine months earlier when he died in an explosion in January serving with 3rd Battalion the Rifles near Sangin.
(20) Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum SERGEANT NADAV BIGELMAN 2007-10, Nachal Brigade, 50th Battalion, Hebron During patrols inside the casbah we'd do many "mappings".
Myriad
Definition:
(n.) The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things.
(n.) An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.
(a.) Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as, myriad stars.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a marketing model, it is argued that in New Zealand both groups will survive and spread best by selecting, from the myriad of patient need options, those that most closely match their skills.
(2) At present, the toxicity of most IL-2 regimens is severe and prohibitive for clinicians not intimately familiar with the myriad of side effects associated with its use.
(3) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.
(4) Guy said the 28,000 issues reported to Citizens Advice in 2013, plus the 102,000 who sought help online, revealed that people are experiencing a myriad of problems with mobiles.
(5) Like many British shoppers, she finds she has to play a cat-and-mouse game with Tesco's myriad offers (some real, some less authentic) to keep costs down.
(6) Efforts to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality have led clinicians to use a myriad of ventilatory support modalities.
(7) Of ourse, men traverse them in myriad ways, as a result of differences in class, ethnicity, personality, and other factors.
(8) Some, hired from myriad unregulated subcontractors, had to pay for their own work clothes on a salary of £149 a month.
(9) There is evidence for the animosity the document cites around the country in myriad small protests.
(10) Privilege comes in a myriad of forms, including race, gender, wealth, physical fitness, safety, and educational attainment and indeed height.
(11) Militants led by energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis say any rupture with Europe would be better than signing up to an accord that crossed Syriza’s myriad red lines.
(12) A few weeks ago, myriad gossip sites published photos of the Malibu home he just bought, going through the place room by room.
(13) These maneuvers have been chosen from the myriad dietary interventions in the experimental and clinical literature and are not meant to be all inclusive.
(14) Recent elucidation of a few of the myriad functions of these saccharides has finally opened a crack in the door to one the last great frontiers of biochemistry.
(15) Taken together, these myriad aspects add up to create a fabulously singular and peerless holistic experience that stands alone in its creativity and innovation,” organisers said.
(16) Efforts to unite the disparate groups have until now been lost in a myriad of competing ambitions and decades of political turmoil.
(17) Over the last 50 years, Ballard's indiscriminate and unflinching gaze has worked hard to penetrate the myriad surface realities of our disturbed modernity and to tap into its unconscious energies.
(18) Aging is accompanied by a myriad of changes in cell structure, function, and composition.
(19) The doubts that he is presidential material have come from myriad quarters, though many serve as an acknowledgement of how much he is feared by potential rivals.
(20) Radiolucent filling defects within the renal pelvis are common findings in diagnositc urography, and because of their myriad causes the diagnostician is often faced with a challenging problem.