What's the difference between brigade and legion?

Brigade


Definition:

  • (n.) A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.
  • (n.) Any body of persons organized for acting or marching together under authority; as, a fire brigade.
  • (v. t.) To form into a brigade, or into brigades.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
  • (2) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
  • (3) Harati was commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan revolution.
  • (4) The Sunni side includes ISIS, Jaish al-Islam, JRTN, the 1920s Revolutionary Brigades, and moderate Sunni Arab tribal members.
  • (5) For example, the old-school-tie brigade viewed the prospect of an alliance with the Soviet Union to confront Hitler as almost unthinkable at one time, but in due course had to stomach it.
  • (6) Two weeks ago, the production quotas for all colony brigades was arbitrarily increased by 50 units.
  • (7) Updated at 10.01am BST 9.20am BST UK foreign secretary to announce new support "to help save lives" The UK foreign secretary says he has some news on Syria ... William Hague (@WilliamJHague) Today I will announce details of new UK support to help save lives in # Syria , at 10.30am BST August 10, 2012 Updated at 10.01am BST 9.17am BST Irish-Libyan commander leading Syrian brigade "A soft-spoken Libyan-born Irish citizen named Mahdi al-Harati", is leading the Liwa al-Ummah brigade in Syria, a group he says is separate from the Free Syrian Army, Mary Fitzgerald writes for Foreign Policy.
  • (8) The kidnap and execution of the then Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades , the murderous bomb in Bologna station in 1980 and others in Milan, Brescia and aboard a train were, differently, expressions of what Italians call the “strategy of tension” by the state.
  • (9) Even one victim is too much.” Soldiers from Milovanic’s unit, the Bratunac brigade, took an important role in the mass executions, but he says he was transferred to another front as Srebrenica fell, and was not present in the bloody aftermath.
  • (10) The teams will first be based in Baghdad, primarily at senior-level command centres and then at brigade level, with a focus on assessing what additional support is required by the Iraqi military.
  • (11) This is the first of many reports that will be produced from the in-at-all-costs brigade predicting doom and destruction if we Vote Leave from the same characters who made the same predictions a decade ago about the euro.
  • (12) A mob including members of the paramilitary basij brigades, under the control of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, surged through lines of riot police and broke into the embassy and a separate residential compound, the Qolhak Gardens, in northern Tehran, chanting "Death to England" in scenes reminiscent of the seizure of the US embassy in 1979.
  • (13) It’s already burning and there are people inside,” a woman told the fire brigade dispatcher.
  • (14) Television news reports later said locals armed with clubs had blocked an artillery brigade moving toward Donetsk and forced it to turn around.
  • (15) They include an army specialist, Adam Winfield, whose lawyer has released a Facebook chat between the soldier and his father, Christopher, that suggests many other soldiers in the brigade approved of the killings.
  • (16) He was part of the reconnaissance unit of the 25th armoured brigade, which had been doing most of the fighting in Abyan province in the last year.
  • (17) His shop was destroyed by water damage What destroyed my business completely was not the fire [next door] but the gallons and gallons of water which the fire brigade poured over the building.
  • (18) At the same time, they have to hope that they still have appeal to some moderate, centrist voters as a counterweight and restraint on the red tribe to their left and the blue brigade on their right.
  • (19) "That's what the defectors are telling us," said Sheikh Tawfik Abu Sleiman, leader of one of the Aleppo brigades.
  • (20) The differences between companies makes it pretty complex.” Asked about privacy concerns, Abbott told ABC radio he had “no doubt that the civil libertarian brigade will do their best to stop this, but my responsibility as prime minister is to keep our country safe.

Legion


Definition:

  • (n.) A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, -- from about four thousand to about six thousand men, -- the cavalry being about one tenth.
  • (n.) A military force; an army; military bands.
  • (n.) A great number; a multitude.
  • (n.) A group of orders inferior to a class.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over the past 50 years, composer Steve Reich’s music has had a powerful impact – not only on the contemporary classical world, but also on legions of rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, and electronic musicians.
  • (2) Until she was 14 or so Clare was just as devout, going to mass each morning, joining the Legion of Mary, visiting old ladies.
  • (3) The ex-comic ruled out giving a crucial confidence vote in parliament to a centre-left government and reiterated that the M5S's new legion of deputies and senators would vote on laws on a case-by-case basis.
  • (4) Next his wife, Jay Z isn't much a dancer, and when the tempo upped, he respectfully exited, letting her lead her Beyhive legions through their hip-shaking glory.
  • (5) How badly does he have to play before his legions of cheerleaders in the media will put down their pom-poms and pass comment on it?
  • (6) The cross will now move to the Royal British Legion’s national memorial arboretum in Staffordshire.
  • (7) Seann, how do you deal with the legions of female fans you attract?
  • (8) Protecting the poor and the vulnerable is crucial to the phasing down of these subsidies, but the multiple economic, social and environmental benefits are long and legion.” graph Barack Obama and the G20 nations called for an end to fossil fuel subsidies in 2009, but little progress had been made until oil prices fell in 2014.
  • (9) Ben Rubin hasn’t had much sleep over the last few days, and his legions of newly acquired fans have noticed.
  • (10) The obsession of "For Fatherland and Freedom" to pay public homage to the Latvian-SS Legion in contradiction to all historical logic and sensitivity to Nazi crimes is not a product of ostensibly harmless nostalgia as Pickles would have us believe, but part of a rather insidious plan to gain recognition for a perversely distorted version of European history which will officially equate Communism with Nazism.
  • (11) In 2002 he was seen dangling Prince Michael II from the balcony of a hotel room while legions of photographers watched in horror below.
  • (12) In human diseases we are rarely able to obtain data at precisely the same time point in the course of the disease even among patients in the same study, and possible confounding variables present are legion.
  • (13) Therefore there is no reason to claim that there were any direct links between the legion and the war crimes previously committed by military or paramilitary organisations.
  • (14) Nestling beneath the craggy wall of Fort Saint-Jean, a 17th-century stronghold that once housed the Foreign Legion, the squat glass building is shielded from the harsh Mediterranean sun by a dark filigree veil.
  • (15) Mostly, these legions of the displaced are heading for Europe .
  • (16) Aldi has vowed to maintain the supermarket price war that has drawn legions of cost-conscious shoppers to its aisles as it announced a 65% increase in its UK profits.
  • (17) Japan's legions of salaried workers have more reason than most to give in to the urge for an afternoon nap.
  • (18) In just three weeks Richard Harries, the former Bishop of Oxford, has set up a Commission on Civil Society , which has already held emergency hearings on the bill all round the UK, backed by Christian Aid, Women's Institutes, the Countryside Alliance, 38 Degrees , Oxfam, vegans, Quakers, the British Legion and scores more.
  • (19) A total of 2858 randomly selected American Legion members who had served in Southeast Asia completed a questionnaire which elicited information on military service, personal health, and a variety of mental health outcomes.
  • (20) He has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal and the Legion of Honour.

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