(n.) A small party of men assembled for drill, inspection, or other purposes.
(n.) Hence, any small party.
(n.) Sloppy mud.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(2) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(3) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
(4) I’m so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London,” said Sánchez.
(5) Roy Hodgson has opted for youth in his 23-man squad for the World Cup, with Everton's Ross Barkley , 20, and Liverpool's Raheem Sterling, 19, the most eye-catching inclusions for Brazil.
(6) For now, it is a hypothetical danger and England cannot be doing too badly if the worst controversy about Hodgson's squad is who goes as reserve left-back.
(7) Speaking about the player, who scored crucial goals for England during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Hodgson said: “Andros was unlucky to lose his place in the squad when he wasn’t getting a regular game and he’s gone to Newcastle, got a regular game, and done very well there.” Expressing his delight in being selected, Townsend tweeted: “Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad for the euros ... Will give my all over next few weeks to try to make final squad!” Hodgson also declared himself pleased to include Jordan Henderson, who returned to action for Liverpool in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion having been out since early April with damaged knee ligaments.
(8) "Hence, Ruud Geels, a striker, had a squad number of one while the goalkeeper Jan Jongbloed wore No8.
(9) Jesús Navas played a one-two with Touré down the right and from his awkward cross the England squad goalkeeper fumbled the ball inside his six-yard area from where Fernando scored with an overhead kick as dextrous as it was surprising.
(10) "I'm delighted we've been able to agree a deal with Sporting Lisbon and with Ricky and we look forward to welcoming him to the squad in July, once all of the paperwork gets sorted out."
(11) A typical salary for a practice squad member is around US$100,000, significantly less than the Hayne earns in the NRL .
(12) Asked whether Wilson should be in Gareth Southgate’s squad, which is named on Sunday evening, Howe said: “I think he has the ability to get there.
(13) The XI the Scot sent out featured no Robin van Persie, who was on the bench, while Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra, Chris Smalling, Danny Welbeck and Marouane Fellaini did not make the squad due to injuries.
(14) The Arsenal manager, Arsène Wenger, has taken no chances, bringing with him his strongest available squad, and he is aware of the importance of topping the group, which Arsenal would do with a draw or better.
(15) Hodgson left Ferdinand out of his Euro 2012 squad for "football reasons" and then appeared to confirm the end of his international career to a punter on the Tube, before recalling him in March.
(16) But the team manager, Eduardo Belza, had been informed that I had to leave the squad as soon as possible.
(17) The Huddersfield half-back, who is on a shortlist of three to be crowned Man of Steel as the outstanding player of the Super League season on Monday night, has never been a favourite of the England coach, Steve McNamara, who omitted Brough from the 30-man training squad announced in March .
(18) That’s when the police riot squad arrived, because of course you cannot set fire to a bar with cops in it.” He recalled injured protestors being treated in nearby Washington Square Park and Quakers from the local church coming to help.
(19) I would like a much stronger squad, but we have what we have."
(20) The former Liverpool, Chelsea and Real Madrid coach made an immediate impact, interrupting a scheduled squad day off by summoning his players for an introductory meeting and training session on Friday afternoon.
Tactical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics.
Example Sentences:
(1) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(2) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
(3) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(4) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
(5) The report says this tactic has helped the west uncover at least one of Iran's secret nuclear sites and, according to official statements by the Iranians, has caused enrichment centrifuges to break.
(6) His teams are always hard to beat, tactically disciplined and, most importantly, successful.
(7) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(8) In a sign of deep unease among senior Tories at some of the party’s tactics, Forsyth accused the prime minister of having “shattered” the pro-UK alliance in Scotland and stirring up English nationalism after the Scottish independence referendum last year.
(9) The fact that Moyes did nothing to stem his threat down the right by leaving Shinji Kagawa, who offered no protection to Alexander Büttner, on too long was one illustration of a concerning tactical ineptitude.
(10) France was meanwhile leading a push, which diplomats said was backed by Britain, to hit more strategic military targets in Libya, beyond tactical airstrikes on Gaddafi's armour in the vicinity of cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya.
(11) He wasn't the first to employ such scare tactics: in late October, the mayor of the Urals city of Izhevsk was caught on video telling veterans that their government allowances would be raised if United Russia received a high percentage of the vote.
(12) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
(13) These tactics yield litters at weaning whose variability has been very much reduced.
(14) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
(15) That’s a dodgy tactic because the German penalties are so accurate.
(16) The instability of conjunctival flora with time implies a modification in tactics of bacteriological preoperative samples in order to obtain a better operative security.
(17) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
(18) The insurgency is still raging, and the president will have to inspire the security forces, choose generals to lead the fight, and plot tactics to beat a tenacious and experienced enemy.
(19) Tactical voting also delivered significant gains - up to 50 seats, on some estimates - to the Liberal Democrats in Labour's slipstream as the Tories came close to a freefall.
(20) Austin said: "Since the House of Lords judgment, the police have increased their use of the tactic of kettling, with disastrous consequences for the right to peaceful protest and the safety of protesters.