Sentence examples for small platoon from inspiring English sources
The situation in Pinellas County brought a small platoon of Republican Party lawyers and officials early yesterday morning to Clearwater to challenge the results.
While following a small platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistan's Korangal Valley, Junger was struck by their willingness to die for each other.
ZACHARY WOOLFE 'Tilted Axes' "I've lived in the neighborhood for 22 years and I've never seen anything like this," a passerby said as Patrick Grant and his small platoon of electric guitarists and percussionists filed into St.
In a World Cleanup action in Lucknow last year, 40 well-dressed young people picked up rubbish from a park: merely a small platoon in the estimated total of 2.7m participants to date.
Richard Bausch, a highly respected American novelist and short-story writer, is best known in the UK for his outstanding 2009 novella Peace, which charts the lives of a small platoon of American soldiers in Italy in 1944.
Keynesians have an instinctive preference for the big bazooka over the guerrilla army, for the centralised state rather than the small platoon, the coup rather than the insurgency, the stimulus package over the long-term relationship.
Subduing the Valley OVER THE LAST two years, the Americans have steadily increased their presence in Kunar province, fanning out to the small platoon-size outposts that have become the signature of the new counterinsurgency doctrine in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
The prime minister should take note, though, that small platoons can challenge the government as well as queue up to do the sort of things it likes.
Apparently Tory and Liberal-Democrat local councillors took against this.Volunteer, or elseVolunteerism, the idea of Burkean small platoons taking on the functions of the state, is the trickiest part.
It is the part that is motivated by social justice, by the small platoons (the "big society"), the aspirant working class and the recognition that it is not enough just to be trusted to run the economy.
In the fight now under way in Afghanistan, even small platoons may be expected to patrol areas and conduct both combat operations and civilian reconstruction missions traditionally assigned to much larger combat units.
