Sentence examples for a small platoon of 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.

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.

In 1948, I commanded a small platoon of Israeli commandos in the mountains of Judea.

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.

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.

He repeated the "vow" he had made before the vote to hand over more powers to the Scottish Parliament, but made it part of a thoroughgoing programme to hand decision-making to the nations, regions and smaller platoons of the United Kingdom.

Special Forces teams typically have 12 members, sometimes fewer, and Sergeant Bales's unit might have been as small as a platoon of two dozen soldiers.

My father apparently remembers that the film's hero, a beloved lieutenant, dies when he throws himself on an enemy grenade that has been lobbed into his platoon's trench ("platoon" meaning a small military grouping of infantrymen with close ties from being constant comrades in arms).