(n.) The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Wednesday, the ire of the marchers was focused on all those Lib Dems who blithely signed the NUS's anti-fees pledge ("I pledge to vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative" – yesterday, Nick Clegg limply said that he "should have been more careful" than to put his name to it).
(2) "I want to see double the number of marchers next year, and double that the year after.
(3) The government had taken few measures to protect the marchers; what security personnel were on hand contented themselves with teargassing the survivors.
(4) It always targets the poor," said Maria Koumoundourou, a retired bank employee as she joined the marchers.
(5) In Riga, a city with a majority of ethnic Russians, a small band of protesters heckled the marchers with calls such as: "Shame on you", "A disgrace" and "What is there to be proud of?"
(6) Beijing warns Hong Kong marchers not to challenge mainland rule Read more “The way the Chinese government treated him and the pain it inflicted on him and his family just for writing words and talking about democracy, all this proves he deserved the Nobel prize,” said Lui, 27, a graduate student.
(7) Back in June, after 20,000 people marched in Belfast in favour of equal marriage, I took part in a radio discussion with a representative of the Evangelical Alliance who evidently thought the fact that 170 countries in the world did not permit gay marriage (he repeated the figure often enough) trumped the marchers’ wishes.
(8) Massive demonstrations that overtook many Brazilian cities last June were initially sparked by a violent police crackdown on marchers calling for the reversal of a rise in public transport fares.
(9) After being forced to apologise for the mayhem two weeks ago when fewer than 250 police were unable to marshal a crowd of more than 50,000, Scotland Yard sent almost four times as many officers onto the streets and quickly penned marchers into a section of streets.
(10) I have lost my job as a machine operator in a paint manufacturing company because of this power cut,” said 54-year-old marcher Samuel Addo.
(11) The desperate attempts by the unionist parties to resist an effective code of conduct for marchers and protesters showed that very clearly.
(12) "I ask the marchers to understand this: I do not seek unpopularity as a badge of honour," he said.
(13) The overwhelming majority of marchers, Ed Miliband and the TUC included, had nothing whatever to do with smashing windows, throwing things at the police or behaving badly.
(14) The Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, a few months after civil rights marchers were beaten and teargassed on the Selma to Montgomery March.
(15) The crowds gather at 10am – a sea of saffron flags held by millions of marchers dressed in white cotton, the colour of mourning.
(16) But marcher KC Wong, who was pushing a giant red monster he had constructed, with flashing eyes and the yellow stars of the Chinese flag, said: "It's not only CY Leung that people are unhappy with: he is a puppet; it is who is behind the puppet."
(17) Onlookers on the street seem a little bemused, but the marchers are getting thumbs-up and cheers from a few drivers.
(18) It's the ceremonial budget that marchers are hoping to burn in front of town hall.
(19) Outside the Madison police department, marchers chanted: “What’s his name?” They answered: “Tony Robinson”.
(20) Some marchers burned cars, smashed office windows and fought with riot police, leaving a £2m trail of destruction in London's most violent protests since local tax riots in 1990.
Matcher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, matches; a matching machine. See under 3d Match.
Example Sentences:
(1) The design of a highly discriminate tRNA motif, common to all cellular tRNAs and not found in a control sequence bank, was accomplished using the pattern matcher in conjunction with the alignment program.
(2) An object detection module ("frame matcher"), operating on the frames, is employed to identify what features need to be extracted from the EEG and to trigger the appropriate "specialist"--specialized signal processing modules--to obtain values for these features.
(3) This is possible even if the mass spectrometer is not equipped with an alternating voltage accelerator provided that it has a peak matcher, although the lack of an alternating voltage accelerator requires two separate injections of the same sample, for quantification and identification; one for the indole profile and another for the 5-hydroxyindole profile.
(4) An application of the pattern matcher to the search for tRNA and group I intron structural motifs in sequence data banks is presented.
(5) Subjects were 13 color matchers and 30 printers who worked rotating shifts.
(6) The columella footplate and round window are completely covered with a second middle ear membrane which apparently serves as an H2O seal and hydrostatic pressure matcher.