Sentence examples for military beat from inspiring English sources

In the orchestra, snare drummers rapped out a military beat, to numbing effect.

But politics does not march to a military beat; it is a business of shifting loyalties.

Another detainee said: "The military beat me, squeezed my testicles and my tongue with a pincer, telling me to 'say the truth'".

Nigeria's military beat back an attack by Islamist insurgents outside the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, today and sent in reinforcements to prevent another assault, the government said.

Banani, then a computer science student and member of the military, beat dozens of other Tongans and decided to give luge a go.

When that shit-hot military beat kicks in, and then the Governator arm-wrestles Apollo Creed for no discernible plot-based reason, I'm there.

Waking one lazy Sunday morning and checking my Twitter feed, the first link I clicked on was a video of the Egyptian military beating unarmed protesters.

"Y Gwyneb Iau" has been described as a "brass-soaked" cross between the music of Herb Alpert and The Doors, featuring "maudlin horns and military beats", while Rhys has said that the song is a combination of Nick Drake, Gladys Knight, and The Velvet Underground's third album.

The band's first (but not its sole) legacy is its sound, easily identified within a few bars: a high, chiming guitar figure, usually simple in structure but fleshed out by the ringing of open strings and the doubling effect of a delay unit; a charging, near-military beat and bass line stretched out with a little extra swing; and singing that is defiant and loud and slightly weird.

In October Chávez, a fiery and charismatic military populist, beat Mr Capriles by more than 1.6m votes to win a third six-year term.

The military police beat and briefly detained about 20 people from the scene of the sit-in, including human rights activists and a journalist from Al Jazeera.