(n.) A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
(2) The training in small arms, infantry tactics and basic medical skills will take place in Turkey and is part of a US-led effort aimed at helping thousands of Syrian fighters over the next three years.
(3) Radio Misrata reported that three Gaddafi tanks had joined infantry on an attack on the front line, but that the rebel positions had not been penetrated.
(4) The Russian defence ministry said on Monday that a motorised defence infantry battalion stationed near the Ukrainian border for "training" for a month had begun the journey back to its base.
(5) High risk groups included the Garrison Force (home guard), anti-aircraft gunners and infantry and armoured units stationed at Hsing-jen.
(6) The available evidence indicates that, unless their duties involve compulsory fitness training (recruits) or hard physical work (infantry soldiers), the military in Canada have aerobic fitness levels which are not markedly higher than their civilian counterparts.
(7) Imagine the frustration of the likes of the Australian general Sir John Monash , engineer and polymath, who advocated of infantry, artillery, aircraft and tanks and was told he “lacked dash”.
(8) The highest increase took place in lower limb and muscular overuse conditions in the youngest and most junior members of the infantry, especially when undergoing basic training.
(9) The Queen's Lancashire Regiment is more than 300 years old and has won more battle honours than any other infantry regiment.
(10) German mechanised infantry crossed into Poland at the weekend after thousands of Nato forces inaugurated exercises as part of the new buildup in the east.
(11) During the initial six week period of deployment and jungle training in Belize, a 634 man strong infantry battalion group sustained twenty-three machete hand injuries.
(12) An infantry battalion as part of an Airmobile Brigade took part in a field exercise in Germany during mid summer 1984.
(13) Rp578, UK infantry corporal, Afghanistan and Iraq I served on both Iraq and Afghanistan as an Infantry NCO, being called up as a reservist on both occasions.
(14) After days of infantry assaults and bombardments in which dozens of rebel fighters have been killed and at least 45 wounded, the Misrata military council says pleas for Nato air support have gone unanswered.
(15) Transgender people could serve in the British infantry in close combat roles, according to a senior officer responsible for personnel.
(16) Injuries to armored vehicle crewmembers are characterized by a large number of burn casualties, a larger percentage of fractures and traumatic amputations with extremity wounds, and a higher mortality when compared with infantry footsoldier combat casualty statistics.
(17) You need to think in each case … who’s in, who is kept out and how the enforcement of it is done.” Any campaign would probably need snipers, radar and recon teams, artillery and special operations teams – if not full infantry battalions, Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations, has noted in Foreign Policy .
(18) "After the emergency rescue operations we are now clearing debris and helping disaster victims resume normal life and dispensing medical care," says Lieutenant Kimura of the fifth infantry regiment, ninth division.
(19) Paxman said he did not subscribe to the "lions led by donkeys" description of the British infantry in the first world war which was the source of much of Gove's anger.
(20) The authors have combined their experience of recent changes in the Health Service Support of a separate mechanized infantry brigade during 10-day field training exercises conducted by the same population, in the same geographical area, and in the same season in 4 consecutive years.
Jaeger
Definition:
(n.) See Jager.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if high voltage cables between North Africa and Italy would be built or the existing cable between Morocco and Spain would be used, the infrastructure of the transfer countries such as Italy and Spain or Greece or Turkey also needs a major re-structuring, according to Jaeger-Waldau.
(2) "When Jaeger lost its way, it lost sight of the customer big-time," Earl says.
(3) Harold Tillman, owner of retailers Jaeger and Aquascutum (the name means "water shield") had ambitions to follow in the footsteps of Burberry, another classic but antiquated British label which had reinvented itself as a worldwide luxury brand.
(4) In 24 children with bronchial asthma and 16 children of a control group provocation by three-minute inhalation of cold air was applied under eucapnic condition on a RHES apparatus (E. Jaeger, GFR).
(5) In a group of 50 children with a negative case- history as regards airways and lacking acute respiratory disease, the authors assessed the resistance of the airways on a whole-body plethysmograph and by using the interruptor method on a Bronchoscreen (Jaeger) apparatus.
(6) Her time among the Jaeger rails showed her that while customers (like those at M&S) tended to be well into middle age, that didn't mean they wanted elasticated waists and sensible woollies.
(7) "The board is pleased that Jaeger has a new owner in Better Capital, thereby securing the future of the business," the retailer said in a statement.
(8) This constant stream of sales and offers has discouraged shoppers from paying full price and has lessened their trust in the quality of the Jaeger product – one of its fundamental selling points,” he said.
(9) It is clearly hoped that Earl can knock out a retail hit, as she did with her Designers at Debenhams scheme or the recent revamp of Jaeger.
(10) It is thought that her biggest challenge will be helping M&S clothes, which have been criticised as fusty, appeal to a younger audience, something she had experience of while working at Jaeger.
(11) Ten minutes after each dose a spirometric function with pneumoscreen Jaeger was performed.
(12) Eventually she capitulated and joined Tillman, who described her as the "queen of retail", taking over as chief executive of Jaeger with a 20% stake in the business.
(13) It's what happened at Jaeger and Aquascutum, which ran into trouble last year.
(14) A supraorbital "cool" area, as seen in patients with carotid stenosis or occlusion, is observed when surgery with the Jaeger-Hamby technique has been successful.
(15) Our teenage selves who shopped, if we could, at Young Jaeger 40 years ago were telling us something.
(16) "In the big companies, no one wants to renegotiate the 35 hours and reopen Pandora's Box," said Philippe Jaeger of the CFE-CGC union.
(17) Intra- and extracranial trapping of the internal carotid artery associated with muscle embolization (Jaeger's operation) was performed (Fig.
(18) Jaeger was founded in 1884 by Lewis Tomalin, an accountant who was inspired by a health craze promulgated by Gustav Jaeger , a professor of zoology from Stuttgart.
(19) Shoppers can find a range of products from £30 T-shirts to silk crepe gowns worth thousands and will continue to be run as an independent entity alongside Richemont's other luxury goods businesses, which also include Chloe handbags as well as top-end watch brands such as Vacheron Constantin and Jaeger-LeCoultre.
(20) The results are all expressed in the M notation (1 mm of letter height equals 0.7 M) and are tabled according to the acuity specification system used by the manufacturers--such as, the point-type system, Jaeger notation, equivalent 20-ft Snellen notation, and so on.