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Perdu


Definition:

  • (a.) One placed on watch, or in ambush.
  • (a.) A soldier sent on a forlorn hope.
  • (a.) Alt. of Perdue

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most of Nunn’s money remains unspent, whereas both Kingston and Perdue are being forced to empty their war chests combating each other for their party’s nomination.
  • (2) GEORGIA SENATE Running Michelle Nunn (D) v David Perdue (R) Snapshot A study in how demographics could change national US politics .
  • (3) Two exceptions, however, were the Selective Reminding Test and the Perdue Pegboard.
  • (4) Unchanging since the age of 16: Marcel Proust's A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu.
  • (5) Perdue’s track record suggests he will prioritize policies and programs that aim to intensify production and exports of commodity crops like corn, soy, wheat, cotton, peanuts and rice for global markets.
  • (6) If Perdue insists on serving mainly the interest of Big Ag, this will not “make American agriculture great again”.
  • (7) A brief history of the cire perdue or lost-wax method of casting alloys and the development of modern dental casting materials and techniques are presented.
  • (8) Polls show Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn, 47, the daughter of former senator Sam Nunn, neck-and-neck with Kingston and Perdue, who are in the midst of a bruising primary runoff campaign that won’t be decided until 22 July.
  • (9) Cecil said that Democrats were also conscious of the risk of restrictions of voting in Georgia, where Democrat Michelle Nunn is running against Republican Michael Perdue.
  • (10) It is these farmers, the rank and file of American agriculture, who are unlikely to be served by Perdue’s agenda.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hank Schwab of Atlanta shows the campaign hat he’s worn for the past 30 years at a gathering in support of David Perdue.
  • (12) Meanwhile, the middlemen – commodity brokers, processors and traders (not so coincidentally the agricultural sub-sector that Perdue’s own company calls home) –will continue to reap the benefits of growing demand overseas.
  • (13) Read more We can also expect Perdue’s USDA to slash incentives for conservation on farms that safeguard land and keep water viable for future generations and ignore worker demands for better wages and protection.
  • (14) Sonny Perdue vows to make American agriculture great again – but for whom?
  • (15) A telling signal of what to expect from Perdue is the reaction to his appointment from commodity associations, traders and brokers.
  • (16) He adores Proust and, in 1972, spent a year adapting à la Recherche du Temps Perdu for the screen; the movie has yet to be made but the effect of living with Proust was profound.
  • (17) And at a time when food systems contribute as much as 25% of global greenhouse gasses, Perdue joins the growing ranks of cabinet nominees who deny climate change science, calling it “a running joke” and a reason “liberals have lost all credibility”.
  • (18) The night following Trump’s announcement, Perdue took the stage at the Bipartisan Inaugural Gala Celebrating American Agriculture and promised to “make American agriculture great again”.
  • (19) David Perdue, senator for Georgia, Yates’s home state, backed the decision.
  • (20) The good news is that Perdue clears a bar far too few Trump cabinet nominees seem to meet – he has experience in government and management, as well as knowledge about the department he’s been selected to lead.

Soldier


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.
  • (n.) Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.
  • (n.) A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction.
  • (n.) The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)
  • (n.) One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite.
  • (v. i.) To serve as a soldier.
  • (v. i.) To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
  • (2) But in a country with an unemployment rate of nearly 70%, including many former child soldiers, there are no certainties.
  • (3) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
  • (4) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
  • (5) The soldiers allegedly launched the attack after one of their comrades was killed when he became involved in an argument over a woman near Fizi hospital.
  • (6) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
  • (7) Bill O’Reilly has told different versions of an encounter at gunpoint that he claims to have experienced while reporting in Argentina – one involving a single armed soldier and the other detailing several troops.
  • (8) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
  • (9) Eleven US soldiers have been convicted in the Abu Ghraib scandal.
  • (10) How World of Warcraft train future soldiers One odder digression sees the two discussing whether or not MMORPGs, video games like World of Warcraft, are evil.
  • (11) Hours after the firefight ended, and just a few dozen kilometres away, a "very reliable" member of the Afghan local police turned his gun on two British soldiers.
  • (12) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
  • (13) He saw a soldier aim his weapon’s laser sight at the al-Atrashes’ Volkswagen “like he was preparing to shoot”.
  • (14) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
  • (15) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
  • (16) One hundred fifty-two cases among active duty Army soldiers were identified.
  • (17) The last American soldier held captive by the Afghan Taliban has been released, after the US government agreed to free five Afghan detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to the custody of the Qatari government, US officials said.
  • (18) We talked of his time as a soldier in the first world war.
  • (19) You can bear witness to the gallantry of our military in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur and many other parts of the world, but in the matter of the insurgency our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentives to tackle this problem.” He added: “We believe that there is faulty intelligence and analysis.
  • (20) "There are definitely green men there today, they aren't hiding that they're from Crimea, from Russia," she said, referring to the unmarked soldiers Russia deployed to take control of Crimea last month, who are popularly known as "little green men".

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