(n.) A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, -- from about four thousand to about six thousand men, -- the cavalry being about one tenth.
(n.) A military force; an army; military bands.
(n.) A great number; a multitude.
(n.) A group of orders inferior to a class.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the past 50 years, composer Steve Reich’s music has had a powerful impact – not only on the contemporary classical world, but also on legions of rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, and electronic musicians.
(2) Until she was 14 or so Clare was just as devout, going to mass each morning, joining the Legion of Mary, visiting old ladies.
(3) The ex-comic ruled out giving a crucial confidence vote in parliament to a centre-left government and reiterated that the M5S's new legion of deputies and senators would vote on laws on a case-by-case basis.
(4) Next his wife, Jay Z isn't much a dancer, and when the tempo upped, he respectfully exited, letting her lead her Beyhive legions through their hip-shaking glory.
(5) How badly does he have to play before his legions of cheerleaders in the media will put down their pom-poms and pass comment on it?
(6) The cross will now move to the Royal British Legion’s national memorial arboretum in Staffordshire.
(7) Seann, how do you deal with the legions of female fans you attract?
(8) Protecting the poor and the vulnerable is crucial to the phasing down of these subsidies, but the multiple economic, social and environmental benefits are long and legion.” graph Barack Obama and the G20 nations called for an end to fossil fuel subsidies in 2009, but little progress had been made until oil prices fell in 2014.
(9) Ben Rubin hasn’t had much sleep over the last few days, and his legions of newly acquired fans have noticed.
(10) The obsession of "For Fatherland and Freedom" to pay public homage to the Latvian-SS Legion in contradiction to all historical logic and sensitivity to Nazi crimes is not a product of ostensibly harmless nostalgia as Pickles would have us believe, but part of a rather insidious plan to gain recognition for a perversely distorted version of European history which will officially equate Communism with Nazism.
(11) In 2002 he was seen dangling Prince Michael II from the balcony of a hotel room while legions of photographers watched in horror below.
(12) In human diseases we are rarely able to obtain data at precisely the same time point in the course of the disease even among patients in the same study, and possible confounding variables present are legion.
(13) Therefore there is no reason to claim that there were any direct links between the legion and the war crimes previously committed by military or paramilitary organisations.
(14) Nestling beneath the craggy wall of Fort Saint-Jean, a 17th-century stronghold that once housed the Foreign Legion, the squat glass building is shielded from the harsh Mediterranean sun by a dark filigree veil.
(15) Mostly, these legions of the displaced are heading for Europe .
(16) Aldi has vowed to maintain the supermarket price war that has drawn legions of cost-conscious shoppers to its aisles as it announced a 65% increase in its UK profits.
(17) Japan's legions of salaried workers have more reason than most to give in to the urge for an afternoon nap.
(18) In just three weeks Richard Harries, the former Bishop of Oxford, has set up a Commission on Civil Society , which has already held emergency hearings on the bill all round the UK, backed by Christian Aid, Women's Institutes, the Countryside Alliance, 38 Degrees , Oxfam, vegans, Quakers, the British Legion and scores more.
(19) A total of 2858 randomly selected American Legion members who had served in Southeast Asia completed a questionnaire which elicited information on military service, personal health, and a variety of mental health outcomes.
(20) He has also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal and the Legion of Honour.
Numerous
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army.
(a.) Consisting of poetic numbers; rhythmical; measured and counted; melodious; musical.
Example Sentences:
(1) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
(2) Glucocorticoids have numerous effects some of which are permissive; steroids are thus important not only for what they do, but also for what they permit or enable other hormones and signal molecules to do.
(3) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(4) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(5) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(6) Numerical results for the population of England and Wales are shown.
(7) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
(8) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(9) Further exploration of these excretory pathways will provide interesting new insights on the numerous cholestatic and hyperbilirubinemic syndromes that occur in nature.
(10) We present numerical methods for studying the relationship between the shape of the vocal tract and its acoustic output.
(11) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
(12) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
(13) The numerical chromosome values in 53 human tumors were determined and compared with the modal DNA values as measured by flow cytometry.
(14) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
(15) There are numerous other male protagonists out there in desperate need of a sex change.
(16) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
(17) However, when beta-xyloside-treated cultures were supplied with exogenous basement membrane, Schwann cells produced numerous myelin segments.
(18) Though the problems associated with Robin sequence may be numerous, especially if the primary cause of the sequence is a multiple anomaly syndrome, the most acute problems in affected newborns is upper airway obstruction.
(19) Moreover, the most recent combined application of the rat interstitial cell testosterone (RICT) bioassay and a novel multiple-parameter deonvolution model has allowed investigators to dissect plasma concentration profiles of bioactive LH into defined secretory bursts, which have numerically explicit amplitudes, locations in time, and durations, and are acted upon by determinable subject- and study-specific endogenous metabolic clearance rates.
(20) However, almost all of the numerous compounds found to inhibit ammonia oxidizers also inhibit methanotrophs, and most of the inhibitors act upon the monooxygenases.