Sentence examples for a light brigade from inspiring English sources
Its vehicles will provide armor protection and battlefield mobility that a light brigade doesn't have; its artillery battalion's howitzers will give it more power.
"If you took every terrorist in Afghanistan, you could not make a light brigade," said Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, who until a year ago headed the United States Central Command, which is responsible for military operations in the Middle East and Southwest Asia.
It shows how the activists broke out of their parochial attitude while mining communities questioned their sexual politics, and it makes a bold case that the strike was not a Light Brigade charge into oblivion, but a triumphant spur to gay rights and human rights generally.
Warchus's film takes us back 30 years before all this, making a defiant case that the miners' strike was not simply a Light Brigade charge into oblivion but a triumphant spur to gay rights and human rights, self-respect and pride.
In the first movement of Beethoven's fifth symphony, whose famous "fate" motif propels us into a light-brigade charge from the off, there is one brief moment of repose: a solo oboe which, like the sudden appearance of a peacock on display, brings all to an astonished halt with a languid, preening little cadenza.
"All they see is the arrogance of a 'blue light brigade' [a reference to police escorts for leaders] that believes it has some divine right to rule," he wrote.
He raised a beer to the light brigade below, and slurred, "On a scale of 1 to 10, can you see me?" "Yes," everyone replied.
Why shouldn't girls like and memorise (for of course they should know them by heart) "The Destruction of Sennacherib" ("The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold …") and "The Charge of the Light Brigade" ("Half a league, half a league, half a league onward …") as much as boys?
To its admirers, the poem's a tribute to the Light Brigade's selfless courage: to its attackers, it's the sentimental glorification of war and empire.
The Charge of the Light Brigade I HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
The original Light Brigade was a British cavalry unit which made a doomed charge against enemy cannons in 1854, but the Democrat activists brushed off the precedent, citing anecdotes and internal polling which give them a chance.
