Sentence examples for a few brigades from inspiring English sources

To ward off viruses, cancer cells, and other menaces, the immune system drafts a few brigades from a huge standing army of antibody-producing cells called B cells.

As of summer 2009, it was one of only a few brigades in the U.S. Army to be deployed 40 months or more in support of the War on Terrorism.

To correct the perception that its commitment is open-ended, the Bush Administration should announce that, after U.S. forces return to their pre-surge levels of 15 combat brigades in the summer of 2008, it intends to draw down a few additional brigades before it leaves office in January, 2009.

It was Shinseki's idea to reactivate a few separate brigades and assign them their own support and sustainment units, which would allow them to function independently of division-level headquarters.

Mr. Gates has endorsed Army plans to start delivering them to the first few brigades in 2011 and to "spin out" such innovations to the rest of the Army by 2025.

With the Global War on Terrorism the brigade has seen two deployments to Iraq to support Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004, and units within its ranks have seen two deployments to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, making it one of few brigades to see over 40 months of deployment as of 2009.

On the rebel side "there are more than just a few women's brigades," he said, though he described them as mostly symbolic.

Afghanistan has devolved into a major cesspool of problems - and while many suggest throwing a few more military brigades into the mix -- Biden and his South Asia focused Senate staff know that this is inadequate and will not change the incentives of key warlords.

A few of the brigade's numbers are Afghan migrants who'd lived near an important shrine since the 1990s, when they fled the Taliban to Syria, and mobilized around the structure in 2012 after a suicide bomber allegedly tried to attack it.

The result was a "slaughterpen", as the Second Maryland and the Third North Carolina regiments courageously charged a well-defended position strongly held by three brigades, a few reaching within twenty paces of the enemy lines.

A critical aspect of its approach has been to stagger those times when the unit's leadership was reassigned from the brigade so that the highest-ranking sergeants and officers are not transferred at the same time, which typically occurs in Army units within a few months after a brigade returns from war.