Sentence examples for brigades from inspiring English sources
The Ukrainian army's "anti-terrorist operation", which also involves volunteer brigades and paramilitaries, has so far served more to radicalise the local population than to subdue it.
At least 30 of these loosely regulated brigades have sprung up in eastern Ukraine to help the short-handed army fight.
Andriy Parubiy, head of Ukraine's national security and defence council, told the Guardian that these were all coordinated from a single anti-terrorism command centre, but numerous sources on the ground attest to the fact that coordination is poor, and there are major concerns over how ready the volunteer brigades are for combat.
But some FSA brigades commanders began to disappear and then we found their bodies in a deserted area of Aleppo.
"We must organise shock brigades of chess players and begin the immediate realisation of a Five-Year Plan for chess," declared Nikolai Krylenko, the father of Soviet chess – some years before Stalin had him arrested and shot.
A rebel fighter in Aleppo, Abu Yousef, said: "Brigades of the FSA were able to progress from al-Ashrafiyeh district.
Unsurprisingly, the Badr Brigades were left untouched by Maliki's offensive.
Sadr's popularity among Shias far exceeds that of that Dawa Party which Maliki leads, or the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) of his ally, Ayatollah Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, which has its own militia, the Badr Brigades.
Coogan, who co-wrote the screenplay and took a producer's role, was greeted with chants of "A-ha!" in a reference to his iconic character Alan Partridge's favourite catchphrase by cheerful members of the Fire Brigades Union.
Last week Unison, the public sector union, said it was reviewing its financial links with the Labour Party, a link the Fire Brigades Union has already severed.
It is not linked to any political party, but it is supported by individual bodies including factions of Green party, the CND, the National Assembly of Women, the Muslim Council of Britain, the Stop the War Coalition, and trade unions such as the Fire Brigades Union, the British Pensioners and Trade Unions AA, the TUC, NUJ, NUT, Unite and Unison.
