Sentence examples for by battalions from inspiring English sources

Nintendo's enemies have arrived by battalions.

It's stacked up over Antarctica and Greenland in vast white fortresses known as ice caps, and the polar oceans are patrolled on a yearly cycle by battalions of sea ice.

But it was more like a simple score that could be arranged, in different ways, to divergent effect; played out by a few soldiers, or by battalions, and allowing for an American presence until 2024.

HONG KONG — Occupy Wall Street and the movements it inspired in cities around the world last autumn have largely disappeared, brushed aside by battalions of police officers, but a handful of activists still cling to a site in the heart of Hong Kong's central financial district, and on Monday evening they defied a court-imposed deadline for them to leave.

"The 'shame on you's' that greeted Dominique Strauss-Kahn as he arrived for the hearing on June 6th, shouted by battalions of hotel chambermaids who knew nothing of the actual case and whose protest had been orchestrated and scripted, were obscene," he wrote.

(This is a crucial feature: Tsar Nicholas I's Third Department of secret police relied on a huge body of gendarmes to execute its repressive operations; the Gestapo was a part of the Reich Security Central Office, which was supported by battalions of SS troops; and the Soviet NKVD under Joseph Stalin was both a political police force and a military corps).

The 1 PARA battlegroup was ordered back to the United Kingdom to resume its spearhead role as the permanent stand-by battalion that would form the basis of any emergency deployment, while 42 Commando, Royal Marines, came ashore to replace the soldiers.

He had been contacted by battalion commanders with the 4th Infantry Division in a violent sector of the Sunni Triangle, in Iraq.

Talk story about a detail of eleven Baltimore firemen, headed by Battalion Chief Francis Patrick O'Brien, who visited Engine Co. No. 65 on W. 43rd St., during Fire Prevention Week.

The New Yorker, October 18 , 1947P. 29 Talk story about a detail of eleven Baltimore firemen, headed by Battalion Chief Francis Patrick O'Brien, who visited Engine Co. No. 65 on W. 43rd St., during Fire Prevention Week.

By Fred Packard and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, October 18 , 1947P. 29 Talk story about a detail of eleven Baltimore firemen, headed by Battalion Chief Francis Patrick O'Brien, who visited Engine Co. No. 65 on W. 43rd St., during Fire Prevention Week.