Sentence examples for brigade in time from inspiring English sources

The gloves were distributed, but the tape did not reach the 16th Infantry Brigade in time, so rifle cleaning flannelette was torn into strips and used instead.

The brigade had to lie on open ground under German artillery and machine-gun fire, which caused considerable loss but the left brigade was informed in time to hold back until 1 40 p.m.

One brigade of Buell's army, Col. Jacob Ammen's brigade of Bull Nelson's division, arrived in time to be ferried over and join the left end of the line.

Searle's brigade reached Singapore in January 1942, just in time to witness the capitulation of the supposedly impregnable fortress to the Japanese.

The units of private herders, who use exactly the same nedermas as the brigades and whose grazing areas interact very much with the brigades, therefore have to keep a distance in time or space (two to three weeks during green-up) in order to avoid mixing of herds and to allow for pastures to restore for grazing of the other herds.

This brigade was intended to assemble at Wolverhampton in time of war, while in peacetime it acted as a focus for collective training of the Volunteers.

Today, I arrive at LBC's central London studio in time to witness Ferrari mauling a caller on the topic of the recent fire brigade walk-outs.

In time though these shortfalls were overcome, with the Australian field artillery expanding from just three field brigades in 1914 to twenty at the end of 1917.

Shortly afterwards, at the age of 29, he was given the command of 4th Independent Armoured Brigade in time for the last push into northern Germany.

Robert R. Fowler, a former Canadian diplomat and a United Nations special envoy to Niger, was kidnapped by Mr. Belmokhtar's brigade in late 2008 and met with him several times.

The Independent's Kim Sengupta, who has spent time with the al-Farouq brigade in Syria, says Sakkar was once seen as a moderate and "something of a hero".