Sentence examples for first echelon from inspiring English sources

The aim, commanders now admit, was to have many "different flags on coffins" at the start of a war, so as to ensure that allies could not dodge their commitment to joint defence.The new solidarity force, if approved, could form the first echelon of the troubled NATO Response Force (NRF), supposedly a powerful 25,000-strong mailed fist held at high readiness but far from ready.

Routing problem is considered only for first echelon.

First echelon trip must begin/end at the same open collection/inspection centers.

Constraint (10) quarantines the creation of alliance between opened production centers in the first echelon.

In the first echelon the plants transport the product to distribution centers.

The first echelon consists of a distribution centre and a shared buffer.

For the first time in the past two or three hundred years, it is facing a real threat of sliding into the second, and possibly even third, echelon of world states".

Britain has accepted its status as a "second or even third echelon power", according to Amis, partly through the adoption of a mindset that has dulled the pain of lost power.

In the second echelon the distribution centers transport the product to the customers.

The second echelon includes multiple non-identical suppliers that feed the distribution centre.

Lee et al. (2010) study a three-echelon LRP with routing decisions on the first and third echelon.