(1) The soldiers allegedly launched the attack after one of their comrades was killed when he became involved in an argument over a woman near Fizi hospital.
(2) 'The foreigners are here for their own reasons,' said his younger comrade.
(3) As a result of the blast, there were martyrs and wounded among our heroic armed comrades,” the military said.
(4) It's as well to be aware of the beckoning avenues of justification that are drawing in so many of our erstwhile comrades.
(5) The International Olympic Committee – Fifa's comrade in the global 1% – has demonstrated that it's entirely possible to throw a sport extravaganza and still pay taxes.
(6) Leaks suggested the case against the detainees rested on little more than evidence they used words such as compa , a shortening of the Spanish word compañero, which means comrade, but is also often used in leftwing circles to mean simply friend.
(7) As well as sparking a novel, Merrill's caress further initiated Forster into the comradely haven of his and Carpenter's rural domesticity: a Derbyshire homestead, safe from public scrutiny.
(8) Three of them completed marathon races despite symptoms, one athlete running more than 20 miles after the onset of exertional discomfort to complete the 56 mile Comrades Marathon.
(9) Comrades from the heroic anti-colonial days retired, drifted away or were pushed out – in the case of President Devan Nair in 1985, after a humiliating allegation of alcoholism that he contested.
(10) In 1981 he and nine comrades could no longer watch the younger prisoners being beaten and felt that they had no option but to hunger strike to the death, to establish in the eyes of the world that they were political prisoners fighting a just cause.
(11) In 2009, he took part in an endurance event in the Amazon to raise money for injured comrades.
(12) For this to be corrected, please, give the incoming government a chance’,” reported Ameh Comrade Godwin in Nigeria’s Daily Post .
(13) But perhaps we should also celebrate those who had been doing that when there were no comrades; those who are rejected by mainstream society yet still maintain love for their countries, enough to return to them when they did not have to; to protest and put their lives on the line; to not allow themselves to be defined by the parameters they cannot fit, and hope that when the revolutionary fervour has died, society will not continue to judge them too harshly.
(14) Most of their comrades ran for the surrounding hills or defected to the invading rebels, known as M23, instantly gaining higher pay, more food and crisper uniforms.
(15) Like the late Hughes, there are many former comrades of the Sinn Féin chief who have begged to differ and who have said that, to continue the Shakespearean theme, the IRA without Adams would be like Hamlet without its prince.
(16) The Morning Star said that the book was: "Full of humour – often at his own and comrades's expense".
(17) *applause* February 21, 2014 Reuters has more from the scene: After another open coffin was held aloft by the crowd, a protester wearing battle-fatigues leapt up to the microphone and triggered roars of approval as he declared: “By tomorrow we want him (Yanukovich) out!” Referring to the three opposition leaders, including boxer-turned-politician Vitaly Klitschko, who were standing behind him, the man said: “My comrade was shot and our leaders shake the hand of a murderer.
(18) He had already left the Communist party (in 1954), yet he had never publicly denounced his former comrades: that was not his style.
(19) Other purported former comrades made denunciations on Facebook pages such as " Bowe Bergdahl is not a hero ”, and an online petition to the White House demanding a court martial garnered more than 2,900 signatures.
(20) Boxun showed what it said was a screenshot of Shandong News with a banner headline reading "Venerable Comrade Jiang Zemin Will Never Be Forgotten" next to a photo of the former leader.
Crony
Definition:
(n.) A crone.
(n.) An intimate companion; a familiar frend
Example Sentences:
(1) As for the speaker in parliament Thura Shwe Mann, a former general, he has formed an improbable alliance with Aung San Suu Kyi, on the assumption that she might help him thwart the plans of his former cronies.
(2) Tony Abbott would put those same premiers in charge of the national environment with his plan to hand off federal environmental approval powers to his state cronies – an environmental disaster waiting to happen."
(3) However, Lord Oakeshott, a prominent Liberal Democrat peer, said honours "for Cameron's cronies and Osborne's donors dishonour the system", while John Mann, Labour MP for Bassetlaw, also criticised some of the awards, saying the "same old politicians' cronies are discrediting the honours system" adding "it's not what you know but who you know".
(4) From Tory philosopher Phillip Blond 's attacks on "individualism", to Tory MP Jesse Norman's criticism of monopolistic " crony capitalism ", to Ferdinand Mount – once head of Thatcher's Downing Street policy unit – worrying about the concentration of wealth among " the new few ", there is strengthening disquiet at some of the forces the 80s set in motion.
(5) Cameron and his cronies may have just been "born this way", but when they could choose to be on the side of women they simply haven't.
(6) He also claimed that David Cameron's party and its "cronies" were trying to create financial panic to frighten people into voting for them.
(7) The oil boom of the past few years has made the Aliyev family and its cronies extremely wealthy and the regime will do its utmost to keep power.
(8) The unprecedented rise in the cost of living and the deplorable state of hospitals have put the people in the exact position that Museveni and his cronies want them to be – a place where many are too worried about their next meal to care about abstract political ideas and rights.
(9) In Uncommon Danger, the representatives of communism and what Zaleshoff calls "moderate radicalism" but Kenton himself would probably think of as basic human decency are pitted against the agents of capital and fascism: Balterghen, Saridza and their many cronies.
(10) At an even slower pace, they seized the assets of half a dozen crony companies and recovered most of the coconut levy.
(11) He would face a predictable volley of criticism from Conservative-leaning papers who didn't like the idea of a former Blair toiler – or "labour crony" in Mail speak – at No 10 ruling the corporation they love to hate.
(12) New Labour had created a kind of "crony capitalism", he said.
(13) Nick Clegg has used his first intervention of the new year to map out a crackdown on "crony capitalism", vowing to take action against company tax avoidance, excessive executive pay and irresponsible capitalism.
(14) Unlike many crony capitalists who troll the halls of Congress looking for favors, the Kochs have consistently lobbied against special-interest politics.” Touching on a key plank of his attempted appeal to liberal voters , Paul continues: “[The Kochs] have always stood for freedom, equality and opportunity.
(15) Further revelations are expected as more US court documents are unsealed and the arrest and extradition process continues The Tory MP Damian Collins, a prime mover in the New Fifa Now campaign, said on Sunday: “We know Blatter will do all he can to try to retain influence over Fifa to protect himself and his cronies.
(16) Bell has always been described as "close to New Labour", though nobody would ever be rude enough to call him a crony.
(17) Zardari and his cronies in the presidency are immersed in all aspects of the government, as the regular press releases issued from his office make clear, with updates on him dealing with everything from flood control measures to foreign affairs.
(18) The two groups are also working to lift the ban on oil exports and to end funding for the US government’s Export-Import Bank, which they deem an example of “crony capitalism”.
(19) Borders campaigner Graeme Steel said: "Anyone else would be called a criminal for defying a judge but Alex Salmond and his Big Wind cronies think they can keep get away with it.
(20) It’s for crony capitalists to be able suck off of them.” If you think that sounds obscene, wait until you get to the part about slurping off the gravy train.