What's the difference between garrison and presidial?
Garrison
Definition:
(n.) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.
(n.) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security.
(v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town.
(v. t.) To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory.
Example Sentences:
(1) India, meanwhile, continues to garrison half a million soldiers in Kashmir, nearly three times the number of American troops in Iraq at the peak of the occupation.
(2) High risk groups included the Garrison Force (home guard), anti-aircraft gunners and infantry and armoured units stationed at Hsing-jen.
(3) "There's still a 5,000-strong British army garrison, a new MI5 HQ in Belfast, and a British secretary of state.
(4) She was later moved to a hospital in Rawalpindi, the garrison town close to the Pakistani capital.
(5) After the death of Alexander the Great in 323BC the Greek garrisons of India and Afghanistan found themselves cut off from their Mediterranean homeland, and had no choice but to stay on, intermingling with the local peoples, and leavening Indian learning with classical philosophy.
(6) The British garrison numbered nearly 140,000 but was in total chaos, under‑equipped with no aircraft or tanks, demoralised and disorganised.
(7) It says there was no civilian population on the island in 1833, with the Royal Navy expelling an Argentine military garrison that had arrived three months earlier.
(8) Having begun as a castle town at the end of the 1500s under the rule of the feudal warlord Mori Terumoto, by the end of the 19 th century it served as a regional garrison for the Imperial Japanese Army; as a major manufacturing centre, it helped fuel the Japanese empire’s military efforts in the Asia-Pacific.
(9) The military has erected a wall around the 3,800 sq ft plot where the al-Qaida leader’s compound once stood in the garrison city of Abbottabad, and wants to convert it into a graveyard.
(10) The mood, of course, was sombre across the sprawling garrison.
(11) Also near Al-Hasakah several buildings that were part of an Isis garrison were destroyed.
(12) Military personnel from Colchester Garrison helped emergency services during the night in Maldon in the county and most people evacuated from their homes had left rest centres, police said.
(13) "Musharraf is not avoiding the courts," Chaudhry said, adding the former president was still being treated at a hospital in Rawalpindi, a garrison city near Islamabad.
(14) Over a 3-month period, 36 procedures (Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, 25; colonoscopy, 7; flexible sigmoidoscopy, 4) were performed in soldiers both in the garrison and in combat.
(15) Aaron Sorkin publishes letter urging daughter to fight after Trump win Read more The other plotlines are more complicated: while Randy and Mr Garrison have been (mostly) obsessed with the election this season, rest of the town in up in arms about online harassment.
(16) By then, although he remained active on the periphery of politics, he had become a partner in the prominent New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
(17) On 3 June 1999, he accepted a peace plan allowing a Nato-led Kosovo Force, K-For, to garrison the territory and safeguard the return of the refugees.
(18) It was an Argentine garrison which had been sent to the islands to try to impose Argentine sovereignty over British sovereign territory … until the people of the Falkland Islands choose to become Argentinian, they remain resolutely British."
(19) Now they are back again after fighting this week resulted in the deaths of four soldiers and forced the closure of a small government garrison.
(20) In response, Traore closed all schools in Bamako and in the garrison town of Kati.
Presidial
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Presidiary
Example Sentences:
(1) In November 1964 the Medical Academy of Lübeck was created as Second Medical Faculty of the University of Kiel; in 1974 it was converted into the independent Medical College of Lübeck with a presidial constitution.