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Regimentals


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The overall control of blood glucose before and two hrs meals was better with soluble insulin regiment than with the Lente insulin regimen.
  • (2) Speaking outside Battlesbury barracks in Warminster, Wiltshire, Stenning said: "Barely 48 hours ago, we heard the terrible news that six soldiers from The 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment were declared missing, believed killed, after their Warrior armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.
  • (3) Eyewitnesses said the driver was wearing a black beret, indicating that he was not a member of the Parachute Regiment.
  • (4) The RSC’s Erica Whyman stages a story inspired by a local man, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment’s Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, who was known as the cartoonist of the trenches and survived the war to work at the original Shakespeare Memorial theatre.
  • (5) Dan Jarvis is Labour MP for Barnsley Central and a former officer in the Parachute Regiment
  • (6) A Royal Military police officer who was attached to the Rifles regiment, Pritchard had been put on duty at an observation post in the Sangin area of Helmand province, where the Taliban had fought hard for control.
  • (7) Withheld documents · Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia · Special maritime surveillance operations · An improved kiloton bomb · Production of chemical weapons · Chemical warfare policy · Operations Grape and Tiara · Medical aspects of interrogation · Special operations and how they affect deception · Atomic energy: information received from US under military agreement · Nuclear warheads in the far east · Project R1 · SAS regiment: Borneo operations
  • (8) These observations suggest that steroid-inclusive medication regiments can affect cognitive performance.
  • (9) While focusing criticism on a few members of the regiment – particularly Corporal Donald Payne, Lieutenant Craig Rodgers and Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Mendonca – the report also passes scathing comment on the role of the unit's regimental medical officer, Dr Derek Keilloh, and its padre, Father Peter Madden.
  • (10) Patients whose disease responded to the high-single-dose, alternate-day prednisone regiment were indistinguishable from nonresponders by the immunological responses measured.
  • (11) The loss of 12 Scottish regiments since 1957 had loosened military ties," he said.
  • (12) The soldier, the 294th to have died in Afghanistan since 2001, was from the 2nd Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, the MoD said.
  • (13) As assistant bacteriologist and ex-POW he joined the British regimental hospital in Bangkok.
  • (14) Animals fed on the LP diet had elevated plasma concentrations of both total and free triiodothyronine (T3) concentrations whereas those on the ER regiment showed values below those of controls.
  • (15) The retired appeal court judge's report, which runs to three volumes, found that troops from 1st Battalion Queen's Lancashire Regiment inflicted "gratuitous" violence on a group of 10 Iraqi civilians, who were kicked and hit in turn, "causing them to emit groans and other noises and thereby playing them like musical instruments".
  • (16) 99 patients were treated with combination chemotherapy (MOPP or equivalent regiments) with or without additional irradiation of some involved areas.
  • (17) Such clinical characteristics and functional parameters as: duration of "dishabituation" from assisted breathing, need of re-intubation, changes in oxygen consumption etc, caused by change in the ventilatory regiment, were evaluated and analyzed.
  • (18) I find it very embarrassing when people ask what they should call me – then, I stumble.” Although he had to start learning the management of the family estates instead of taking up an army career as intended, Grosvenor did serve with the Territorials, in the Queen’s Own Yeomanry cavalry regiment, rising through the ranks, attending the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and eventually becoming a major-general and assistant chief of the defence staff with responsibility for the army reserves and cadets.
  • (19) Late Royal Regiment of Artillery Officer (OBE) Lt Col Timothy John Simon Allen.
  • (20) The Queen's Lancashire Regiment is more than 300 years old and has won more battle honours than any other infantry regiment.

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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