(a.) Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.
(a.) Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition.
(n.) The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(3) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(4) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
(5) The incidence of antibody to exotoxin was highest in the age groups ranging from 26 to 32 years, where the positive rates were higher than 40% and 30% for military personnel serving in Sarawak and Sabah, respectively.
(6) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
(7) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
(8) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(9) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(10) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(11) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
(12) A questionnaire was presented to 2009 18--19 year old military recruitment candidates which enabled assessment of antipathy towards patients with severe acne vulgaris, the occupational handicap associated with severe acne and subjective inhibitions in acne patients.
(13) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
(14) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(15) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
(16) Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Australian policies in refugee crisis Read more Given that Obama – whatever one’s views on his strategy – is not advocating a bigger military contribution, the only difference is that Abbott is “urging” the US and others to do more, which sounds resolute, and Turnbull says he would consider any request if it was made.
(17) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.
(18) Germany’s parliament has thrown its weight behind the European campaign against Islamic State , voting with a solid majority in favour of deploying military personnel to Syria in a non-combat role.
(19) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
(20) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.
Turm
Definition:
(n.) A troop; a company.
Example Sentences:
(1) Claude Turmes, vice chair of the Green Group of MEPs, said: "It is important that we ensure ambitious and coherent binding targets for greenhouse gas reductions, renewables and energy savings.
(2) Luxembourg MEP Claude Turmes, who denied that the leaked documents came from his office, said: "Britain is leading the attempt to undermine the climate change directive.
(3) Claude Turmes, the Green MEP who was the European parliament draftsman for the original renewable energy directive, warned that the UK government's stance would imperil efforts to tackle climate change.
(4) Claude Turmes, a Green MEP who helped negotiate the original efficiency package, said the fear of bad headlines had stalled the measures.
(5) Claude Turmes, the Luxembourg Green MEP who led the negotiations for the European parliament, said he had "mixed feelings" about the biofuels factor.
(6) Claude Turmes, a leading Green in the European parliament, told the Guardian: "We think these plans for feed-in tariffs for nuclear are state aid for nuclear power, which would not be allowed.
(7) Ariel Brunner, the head of EU policy for Birdlife , a conservation organisation disputed Turmes and de Jaeger's arguments head on.
(8) Unlike the situation in some other rodents, maternal blood draining from the trophospongial layer was always contained in channels lined by a layer of squamous cells which, in turm, was separated from the trophospongial cells by a basal lamina.
(9) The air quality directive really is a good package of legislation intended to improve the air that we all breathe.” “It is clear that Timmermans wants to kill the packages but we still have a week left to organise maximum pressure and ensure that stupid decisions are not taken,” the Green MEP Claude Turmes said.
(10) But Filip de Jaeger, the secretary general of the European Confederation of Woodworking Industries echoed many of Turmes points.
(11) Claude Turmes, the vice-chair of the Green Party in the European Parliament , was instrumental in negotiating the original Renewable Energy Directive, which included biomass.
(12) Ecodesign measures are one of the most cost-effective ways of reducing emissions and have been strongly supported by successive UK governments, including David Cameron’s, Turmes added.
(13) "We hear all the time that government is the problem but it turms out we really need it in lots of different ways."
(14) The question of the origin of the potential changes is discussed and it is proposed that the lasting hyperpolarization results from an effect on the passive permeabilities to Na+, K+ and Cl- ions inducing in turm a secondary readjustment (stimulation) of the Na+ active transport while the depolarization at high pressures reflects a direct inhibition of the Na+ pump.
(15) Claude Turmes, green energy spokesperson, said: "Shale gas is not the silver bullet for Europe's energy policy but rather a dangerous Trojan horse.