Sentence examples for barrack from inspiring English sources

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barrack

verb

To house military personnel; to quarter.

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We should stand for international justice and the rule of law – and not barrack for the unforgiving law of the jungle.

As opposition leader Mr Orban warned against turning his country into the "happiest barrack of Gazprom" and the risk of returning to Russia's sphere of influence.

PRECISELY what happened behind the barrack gates of a Georgian tank battalion near Tbilisi on May 5th is unclear.

In fact, thousands are planning to barrack the event over the Democrats' lacklustre attempts to end the war in Iraq.

Always a city of marked social divisions, Budapest once revealed the deep-rooted contrast in lifestyle between the aristocrats, who built palaces in the town centre, and those who lived in the slum districts and sprawling temporary barrack settlements on the city's perimeter.

To barrack, or "jeer noisily," recalled Irish barrack ("to brag, boast"), whereas skerrick in the phrase not a skerrick left was obviously identical with the skerrick meaning "small fragment, particle," still heard in English dialects from Westmorland to Hampshire.

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Houses and flats were constructed for staff and married couples, which were of such a high standard that they are still in use, and nearer the factories 85 barrack-type huts housed the female workers.

A showcase facility shown to reporters on an army-escorted visit had schools, health clinics, banks and a post office, as well as rows of barrack-style family housing for 2,800 people.

This month military prosecutors changed the charge against four of the soldiers alleged to have killed Yoon from manslaughter to murder.Calls for sweeping reform to barrack-room culture are all too familiar.

In September the cabinet withdrew citizenship from Saad al-Ajmi, a confidant of the country's most popular opposition leader, Musallam al-Barrack.

Many of the thousands of workers who live in barrack-like accommodation at nearby mines and construction sites come to town at weekends, to drink a beer or ten, brawl, and buy sex and drugs.

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