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The word 'detachments' is a valid and commonly used word in written English
Here are two examples of how you can use it: 1. The military commander ordered detachments of soldiers to be sent to different parts of the country to maintain law and order. 2. The company's restructuring plan included the detachment of certain departments, resulting in the loss of several jobs.
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detachments
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Plural of detachment
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Thus, it is most important that retinal detachments be treated early, before the central area of the retina becomes detached.
It inflicted several humiliating defeats on the armed forces, where small detachments were overwhelmed by forces of several hundred guerrillas, and some 500 police and troops were taken prisoner.Mr Pastrana has set about making the armed forces more effective.
Last year 57 people were murdered in one three-month period in Togliatti; detachments of soldiers had to be brought in to keep criminal gangs away from the Avtovaz factory gate.PrototypeThe Fiat-GAZ joint venture ranks not merely as the biggest foreign investment in the Russian car industry, but as one of the biggest foreign investments in Russia of any kind.
This will provide a reference point from which changes can be measured.The team will then try to work out how the development of features such as "retrogressive thaw slumps" and "active-layer detachments" (different ways in which thawing permafrost can cause a hillside to slip) are associated with the local climate, geology and vegetation.
But the report gives damning support to the claims of critics that the paramilitaries operate as an unofficial extra division of Colombia's army, and will thus embarrass the government.Human Rights Watch investigated allegations against three army brigades (out of 17 in total), each based in areas where the AUC is on the offensive, as well as several police detachments.
American ground troops, supplemented by detachments from Australia, Denmark, France, Germany and Norway, are trying to destroy the remnants of al-Qaeda that are still holding out in Paktia province.
He placed permanent police detachments in 150 municipalities (out of a total of 1,080) that lacked them.
Current retinal procedures to repair detachments or rips, for example, may involve several incisions in the eye and stitches to tie off the perforated areas.Using a micro-robot, by contrast, might involve only one incision and smaller surgical instruments.
Small, vulnerable detachments have been withdrawn.
The British even had detachments of slave soldiers in the Caribbean.
In Some Principles of Maritime Strategy (1911), Sir Julian S. Corbett sorted out the separate roles of the battle fleet and the cruisers: the former established control of the seas by its concentrated presence or in a climactic battle; the latter either struck at lines of communication or attempted to fend off other raiders by operating alone or in small detachments.
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