Sentence examples for corps of sappers from inspiring English sources

For it was Marshall who presided, like some Federalist Buddha, over a Supreme Court that Jefferson described as a "subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric".

By the start of the First World War, the princely states together provided fifteen cavalry regiments, thirteen infantry battalions, seven transport units, four companies of sappers, three camel corps regiments and two batteries of mountain artillery, totalling around 22,500 men.

He persisted with his attempt to enlist, and eventually joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) as a sapper in the Corps of New Zealand Engineers, assigned to the New Zealand Divisional Signal Company.

Nor does it possess the vivid realism of Sebastian Faulks's novel Birdsong, with its portrait of the subterranean lives of sappers.

Brian Shivers, 46, was declared guilty of the double killing of sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey in March 2009 that marked the start of a renewed Real IRA terror campaign in Northern Ireland.

The phone was used to admit responsibility for the Real IRA double murder of Sappers Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar outside Massereene barracks in Antrim in March 2009.

The charge related to the murders of Sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey at Massereene barracks.

On 20 January, Brian Shivers was convicted of the murders of Sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey at Massereene Barracks in March 2009.

The small force of sappers had to be augmented by infantry and Papuan labourers.

Prior to the battle the 46th Regiment received 700 reinforcements: mostly deserters from various formations, a battalion of volunteer sentry guards and march companies of sappers.

Beware of sappers, or people who don't like to see others get ahead.