What's the difference between serried and troops?

Serried


Definition:

  • (a.) Crowded; compact; dense; pressed together.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Serry

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Serry was the Netherlands’ first ambassador to Ukraine.
  • (2) Kastelli said he saw no weapons, although a journalist for Britain’s ITN television said Serry told him at least one of the men was armed.
  • (3) He refused but his car couldn’t move, and he decided he would depart (on foot).” Eliasson said Serry felt “seriously threatened,” though he dismissed as false earlier reports that Serry had been kidnapped.
  • (4) The details of the agreement – leaked to the Guardian – and agreed between UN envoy Robert Serry, the Palestinian Authority and Israel, have so far been briefed to only a few senior UN officials.
  • (5) 5.16pm GMT Mates reports that Serry has escaped, after the path of his “car was [temporarily] blocked by protesters chanting Putin Putin.” James Mates (@jamesmatesitv) Robert Serry finally on his way to the airport, police having forced a way through an angry crowd.
  • (6) Hair cells bear an apical bundle of stereocilia arranged in serried rows.
  • (7) Fans who had paid handsomely for their seats – especially those in serried ranks in the colours of their team lined up on either side of the court – showed a curious reluctance to sit in them.
  • (8) Russia can now make the right choice... To find the road to de-escalation, the United States is ready to work with all parties.” Kerry asks Russia to talk directly with Ukraine, to withdraw troops to barracks in Crimea and to respect and welcome international monitors: We see today with what happened to ambassador Serry, just how important it is to ensure the safety of those monitors and of those observers.
  • (9) Robert Serry said v happy to leave # crimea if it helped de escalate the situation.” Updated at 5.31pm GMT 5.14pm GMT UN envoy blockaded inside Crimea shop The UN special envoy to Ukraine, Robert Serry, was blockaded inside a coffee shop in Crimea by a militia, according to ITV Europe editor James Mates, who is in the shop with Serry.
  • (10) He’s asked us to stay with him and keep filming # Ukriane UN special advisor Robert Serry had been visiting navy commander when his car was blocked.
  • (11) 9.30pm GMT Robert Serry, the UN envoy threatened earlier today by a pro-Russia crowd in Crimea, is in Istanbul temporarily but plans to head soon for Kiev, the UN said.
  • (12) Russia!” The envoy, the Dutch diplomat Robert Serry, agreed to leave Crimea to end the standoff.
  • (13) We need a common infrastructure and to utilise cloud memory rather than serried ranks of hard drives.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Unidentified men in military fatigues outside a cafe in Simferopol, Ukraine who appear to be stopping UN envoy Robert Serry from leaving.
  • (15) Let's see whether GPs, a stroppy lot at the best of times, are prepared to take up this burden, and whether funds are found for new serried ranks of GPs to be hired to do the job.
  • (16) Robert Serry, the United Nation's most senior official for the Middle East, told the UN security council on Monday that "the volume of reconstruction will be about three times" what it was after the 2008‑09 Gaza conflict.
  • (17) James Mates (@jamesmatesitv) UN special envoy Robert Serry with me in coffee shop.
  • (18) Bournemouth hounded them with gusto, but found that, even with 10 men, Blackpool are a smart and serried unit.
  • (19) The envoy, the Dutch diplomat Robert Serry, agreed to leave Crimea to end the standoff.
  • (20) Kastelli said the men insisted they should take Serry straight to the airport and out of the country, but Serry refused and eventually left his surrounded vehicle on foot.

Troops


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
  • (2) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
  • (3) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
  • (4) They say there aren’t Russian troops [in Ukraine].
  • (5) If we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific [Isis] targets, I will recommend that to the president,” Dempsey said, preferring the term “close combat advising”.
  • (6) The strength of the outcry forced the Japanese and American governments to reduce the impact, though not the presence, of troops by a "good neighbour" policy.
  • (7) The army has said it will deploy troops on the streets on that day, while the president says he may introduce a state of emergency if, as expected, the protests spark widespread civil unrest.
  • (8) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
  • (9) 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.
  • (10) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
  • (11) More than 200 American troops are in the country helping to train the army in counter-insurgency, but there are also said to be intelligence and special forces there.
  • (12) He said there were a sufficient number of shifts at Heathrow to maintain "a full immigration desk policy" and insisted the contingency planning for security at the Games, which had seen more than 18,000 military personnel called in, meant the government had enough troops in place or in reserve to make up for the G4S staffing fiasco.
  • (13) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
  • (14) The files, which were made available to the Guardian , the New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel, give a blow-by-blow account of the fighting over the last six years, which has so far cost the lives of more than 320 British and more than 1,000 US troops.
  • (15) A similar visa program for Afghans who aided troops was enacted in 2009 and offered up to 8,500 visas .
  • (16) There was no doubt that feelings ran deep then, but it would be another seven years before American troops withdrew.
  • (17) The victims have even included a month-old baby boy and elderly women, and even the biggest UN peacekeeping force in the world of 18,000 troops has been unable to end the violence.
  • (18) Verdict Black Hawk Down tiptoes carefully around the facts when it deals with US troops, but its interpretation of history is flimsy, one-sided, and politically questionable.
  • (19) The wane in US power over the country it invaded eight years ago, coupled with a return to political prominence for Sadrists, seems to have been enough to lure Sadr back to Najaf, which he fled in 2004 after it was surrounded by US troops.
  • (20) Most of these troops are being sent to Helmand and neighbouring Kandahar where a big push against the Taliban is expected in September, after the holy month of Ramadan.

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