Sentence examples for have a platoon from inspiring English sources

Republicans have more than enough money to compete with this kind of program, but they don't have a platoon of longtime professional organizers ready to go to work.

But now they have a platoon of reinforcements — volunteers from a V.F.W. post, college and high school students, women's groups, churches and people sent by the DuPage County Probation and Court Services to fulfill community-service requirements for minor offenses.

While they have a platoon of sous-chefs to undertake tasks such as the minuscule chopping required for gremolata, the poor old punter has to do every single chop him or herself.

Cavendish's point was that he had never expected to have a platoon of riders working hard to set him up for bunch sprints, but he had expected some protection for his front wheel as anxious rivals tried to baulk his burst for the line.

Unlike Mr. Buffett, they don't have a platoon of tax lawyers on speed dial, so in many cases they just give up on the deduction out of frustration or fear of an audit from an incorrectly filed return.

When pushed on the number of fighters they have there, they told me that they have a platoon fighting in Syria and that thousands of Russians, Ukrainians and Polish nationalists have declared themselves ready to defend Assad.

Sigourney Weaver's Ripley, lone survivor of the Nostromo, confronts a whole nestful of the critters; and this being a Cameron pic, she has a platoon of interstellar SAS on her side.

During this time 3 RAR had a platoon of American M4 Sherman tanks attached and a battery of field guns in direct support.

One dude said "wow," and scratched his head, and the anticipated riots that had a platoon of paramilitary police officers patrolling the area didn't actually happen at all.

India have a mini-platoon of right‑arm quicks.

But on April 17, Brett Gardner, the regular left fielder, went down with a strained right elbow, and since then, Ibanez and the 35-year-old Andruw Jones have formed a platoon to replace him, and have done so admirably.