(n.) Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Improvement could also occur via trained female fieldworkers.
(2) During recent on-site visits a curriculum fieldwork coordinator learned that occupational therapy students were expected to use physical therapy modalities in the treatment of patients.
(3) • Range of skills needed for use in fieldwork, in using maps and geographical information systems and in researching secondary evidence including digital sources • Overall, exam questions will emphasise knowledge and understanding in relation to real world contexts.
(4) Most of this work is based on fieldwork carried out prior to 1940 and was often motivated by a desire to reconstruct the pre-contact situation.
(5) This involved a period of fieldwork in a ward which consisted of non-participant observation of the nurses at work and short interviews with them.
(6) The scheduling and managing of Level II fieldwork education which is required for the certification of the occupational therapy assistant and occupational therapist are time-consuming, financial burdens to the colleges and universities, the training facilities, and the student.
(7) When I ask him how his background in geology is being used here, he tells me of his fieldwork at the Grand Canyon.
(8) The majority of clinicians felt that uniform objectives and a uniform evaluation for Level I fieldwork would help facilitate the experience for them.
(9) Costs generated in the first few weeks of placement were generally recovered by the 6th week, with benefits gradually increasing, then declining slightly through the end of the fieldwork.
(10) Fifty-seven (83 per cent) women had found the fieldworker's intervention useful or very useful, some describing her support as essential.
(11) The author used analytic fieldwork to learn if spouses of alcoholics conformed to the same stages as indicated by the model and to learn the interactive effects of alcoholics' and spouses' stages.
(12) This paper, based on fieldwork done in 1984 in a Peruvian highland community with a population of about 3,500, examines Quechua-speaking Indians' choice of contraceptive methods and discusses barriers to the use of modern contraceptives.
(13) This approach to Level I fieldwork, which does not require as much faculty time as do other service models currently in use, could be applied to other Level I experiences and provide a structure for expanding occupational therapy into nontraditional community settings.
(14) Fieldwork for the survey took place between January-March 1987.
(15) Suggestions are made to academic and fieldwork educators and professional and technical clinicians to strengthen intraprofessional relationships in occupational therapy.
(16) By clarifying the perceptions of the academic faculty, the fieldwork supervisors, and the students, Level I fieldwork will be strengthened and improved.
(17) Estimation methods must be robust and fieldwork well-supervised.
(18) Suggestions might be made for developing curricula and clinical fieldwork and for developing culturally sensitive educational materials for health care professionals.
(19) Parameter estimates for the models were derived from previous fieldwork in Argentina and Brazil.
(20) From these reports it is possible to estimate that there are 376 citrus fieldworker related poisonings per year in Florida.
Troop
Definition:
(n.) A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
(n.) Soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural.
(n.) Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.
(n.) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
(n.) A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
(v. i.) To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
(v. i.) To march on; to go forward in haste.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(2) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(3) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
(4) They say there aren’t Russian troops [in Ukraine].
(5) If we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific [Isis] targets, I will recommend that to the president,” Dempsey said, preferring the term “close combat advising”.
(6) The strength of the outcry forced the Japanese and American governments to reduce the impact, though not the presence, of troops by a "good neighbour" policy.
(7) 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.
(8) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(9) Bill O’Reilly has told different versions of an encounter at gunpoint that he claims to have experienced while reporting in Argentina – one involving a single armed soldier and the other detailing several troops.
(10) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
(11) More than 200 American troops are in the country helping to train the army in counter-insurgency, but there are also said to be intelligence and special forces there.
(12) He said there were a sufficient number of shifts at Heathrow to maintain "a full immigration desk policy" and insisted the contingency planning for security at the Games, which had seen more than 18,000 military personnel called in, meant the government had enough troops in place or in reserve to make up for the G4S staffing fiasco.
(13) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(14) The files, which were made available to the Guardian , the New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel, give a blow-by-blow account of the fighting over the last six years, which has so far cost the lives of more than 320 British and more than 1,000 US troops.
(15) A similar visa program for Afghans who aided troops was enacted in 2009 and offered up to 8,500 visas .
(16) There was no doubt that feelings ran deep then, but it would be another seven years before American troops withdrew.
(17) The victims have even included a month-old baby boy and elderly women, and even the biggest UN peacekeeping force in the world of 18,000 troops has been unable to end the violence.
(18) Verdict Black Hawk Down tiptoes carefully around the facts when it deals with US troops, but its interpretation of history is flimsy, one-sided, and politically questionable.
(19) The wane in US power over the country it invaded eight years ago, coupled with a return to political prominence for Sadrists, seems to have been enough to lure Sadr back to Najaf, which he fled in 2004 after it was surrounded by US troops.
(20) Most of these troops are being sent to Helmand and neighbouring Kandahar where a big push against the Taliban is expected in September, after the holy month of Ramadan.