(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.
Sector
Definition:
(n.) A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.
(n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.
(n.) An astronomical instrument, the limb of which embraces a small portion only of a circle, used for measuring differences of declination too great for the compass of a micrometer. When it is used for measuring zenith distances of stars, it is called a zenith sector.
Example Sentences:
(1) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
(2) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(3) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(4) of rats resulted in cell death and terminal degeneration in entorhinal, insular, and posterior cingulate cortices, and in the CA1, CA3 and dentate gyrus sectors of hippocampus.
(5) The Future Forum is a group of 57 health sector specialists chaired by the Professor Steve Field, the former chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
(6) The World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016 may be the most timely opportunity to make an honest appraisal of the effectiveness of the current system to deal with the sector’s “ new normal ” of finite resources and unlimited challenges.
(7) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
(8) "Medical professionals have perhaps been the least involved [of all sectors] in debates and discussions around abortion, and anti-choice groups have very effectively carried out a deliberate strategy of targeting and influencing health professionals.
(9) The FCx lesions themselves were shown to have no significant effect on DA utilisation in any CP sector.
(10) We present a comparison of the Canadian and American data on expenditures, identifying the sectors in which the experience of the two nations diverges most, and describing the processes of control.
(11) Alton Towers has a long record of safe operation and as we reopen, we are committed to ensuring that the public can again visit us with confidence.” A spokesman for the park said that said that X-Sector, the high-octane section of that park where the Smiler is based, would remain closed until further notice.
(12) And we will sell those assets that can be managed better by the private sector.
(13) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
(14) Despite some high profile problems, the private sector share of community services has been expanding; its market share grew around 50% in the two years from 2010-11.
(15) Analysis of a transposable, element-induced o2 allele, o2-m20, revealed that sectors of endosperm cells contained the nuclear-localized O2 protein, indicating excision of the transposable element.
(16) After clinical examination and semen analysis, we studied 4100 patients by scrotal US with sector mechanical (7.5 MHz) probe with water bag and by transrectal US for prostatic vesicular region evaluation with 5-6.5 MHz linear probe (lately we used biplanar probe).
(17) We are going to see a sharp fall unless sellers hold the sector up by making aggressive offers.
(18) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(19) Burham's claim to be the continuity candidate, coupled with his past reputation as a Blairite, suggests a centrist leadership that would stay on course in terms of private sector involvement in public services, a crackdown on benefit claimants and a tougher stance on criminals.
(20) Generally, patients with anterior sector conditions showed improved performance with band-pass filters (not with ND filters).