Sentence examples for on a legion from inspiring English sources
There was also the considerable local legend of what had happened one night in 1981 at a bar in a particularly nasty wedge of the city called Devil's Pocket, where he and the heavyweight boxer Tex Cobb decided to take on a legion of drunkards armed with baseball bats and tire irons.
She can rely on a legion of earnest middle-aged Democratic women.
He relies on a legion of seamstresses who work from home.
Again, I didn't agree with Thatcher on a legion of ideas, but thank God as a little girl I knew the story – told to me on Saturday Superstore and numerous other channels – of her becoming a research chemist, retraining as barrister, and determinedly elbowing her way into places men had never permitted us before.
The gun lobby depends on a legion of idiots. .
As protesters have taken to the streets to demonstrate over Brown's death, even a year on, so a legion of amateur cameramen and women have begun watching officers closely, posting recordings that undermine the monopoly once held by police on the official version of events.
Tacitus studied to be an advocate at law under two leading orators, Marcus Aper and Julius Secundus; then he began his career with a "vigintivirate" (one of 20 appointments to minor magistracies) and a military tribunate (on the staff of a legion).
On Monday a legion of A-list actors spoke out against a strike in a letter, and an emotional, crowded town-hall meeting with New York members ended in public acrimony.
But Brexit isn't the answer, because it would only empower a (different) small clique of oligarchs to bleed the country dry as they're cheered on by a legion of frothing proto-fascists.
A few quick thoughts about halftime, which began sometime in the Pax Romana, with Madonna being pulled on-field by a legion of gladiators, and ended with a more global and modern declaration of World Peace.
In hindsight Cotton could have done with heeding the advice of Balding, who went on to win a legion of fans for her highly praised coverage of the London Olympics for the BBC and Channel 4, with the pageant considered to be one of the low-lights of event coverage in the corporation's history.
