Sentence examples for a small platoon from inspiring English sources

The situation in Pinellas County brought a small platoon of Republican Party lawyers and officials early yesterday morning to Clearwater to challenge the results.

While following a small platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistan's Korangal Valley, Junger was struck by their willingness to die for each other.

In a World Cleanup action in Lucknow last year, 40 well-dressed young people picked up rubbish from a park: merely a small platoon in the estimated total of 2.7m participants to date.

Richard Bausch, a highly respected American novelist and short-story writer, is best known in the UK for his outstanding 2009 novella Peace, which charts the lives of a small platoon of American soldiers in Italy in 1944.

The forum, organized by the Westchester County Department of Health and the county executive's office, gave students a chance to meet with a small platoon of minority physicians from the New York metropolitan area who hope to inspire the next generation of doctors.

A far more entertaining response would have been for Britain to fund a big-budget revenge epic, in which a small platoon of foppish yet plucky Brits swans over to Vietnam in 1968, defeats the Viet Cong, and wins the war.

ZACHARY WOOLFE 'Tilted Axes' "I've lived in the neighborhood for 22 years and I've never seen anything like this," a passerby said as Patrick Grant and his small platoon of electric guitarists and percussionists filed into St.

Keynesians have an instinctive preference for the big bazooka over the guerrilla army, for the centralised state rather than the small platoon, the coup rather than the insurgency, the stimulus package over the long-term relationship.

This left Andrew with his own small platoon-size reserve, which was used in a failed counter-attack.

The prime minister should take note, though, that small platoons can challenge the government as well as queue up to do the sort of things it likes.

Apparently Tory and Liberal-Democrat local councillors took against this.Volunteer, or elseVolunteerism, the idea of Burkean small platoons taking on the functions of the state, is the trickiest part.