Sentence examples for military connotation from inspiring English sources

I've long believed that the name is a problem — "Peace Corps" has a nineteen-sixties, Cold War air, and the military connotation of "corps" seems inappropriate.

I've long believed that the name is a problem—"Peace Corps" has a nineteen-sixties, Cold War air, and the military connotation of "corps" seems inappropriate.

March, originally, musical form having an even metre (in 2/4 or 4/4) with strongly accented first beats to facilitate military marching; many later examples, while retaining the military connotation, were not intended for actual marching.

In essence, what must be done is to destroy its lines of communication, both in the usual sense of the word and its military connotation.

Having worked in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, I feel that Occupation has a negative, military connotation: Israel-occupied Palestine.

The key to defeating Isis was, and, sadly, still is, to destroy its lines of communication, both in the usual sense of the word and its military connotation.

It's a neat piece of misdirection which, while seeking to pay tribute, avoids military connotations.

Although "breach" has Shakespearean echoes and military connotations, it is also what whales do.

The military connotations gradually disappeared after the war, leaving us with the word we use today.

The X6 M appears streamlined yet brutally muscular and without the military connotations of a Hummer.

The 2010 Ryder Cup was the last time father watched son play golf and so, for the son of a Vietnam veteran, military connotations are never far away.