It has also shown a soldierly taste for micro-managing civilians including enforcing "no honking zones" in the capital.But the government's main aim, by its own declaration, is to make Bangladesh's political parties behave more lawfully and democratically.
The lengthy snippets of soldierly conversation, salty and despairing, sound just right, though they necessarily can be only reconstructions of the real thing.Mr Babchenko may be weak on analysis.
Mr zu Guttenberg is expected to survive a parliamentary inquiry, thanks largely to his soldierly sheen and his popularity with voters.Now the Kunduz airstrike has become the catalyst to help Germany redefine the Afghan operation in more warlike terms.
Newspapers catering for less patient readers made do with snappy accounts of the duke's soldierly habit of cleaning his own shoes.
His character was moulded instead by his soldierly father and by the old-school classical education he received at Winchester College.
He was a devoted Anglophile hardly the attitude of an "anti-imperialist".His soldierly imperiousness caused him to be disliked in Peru and in highland Colombia.
The idea that technology makes war too easy and removes its reliance on soldierly virtues goes far beyond concerns about the specific roles that robots might play.
Though Parmalat survived Europe's largest-ever bankruptcy without losing a day of production, its executives have much more than milk on their minds.Their soldierly ability to keep the company running wins effusive praise, as does their tenacious pursuit of restitution from the banks, auditors and other business partners that they allege abetted the misdeeds of Parmalat's former chiefs.
The soldierly approach dates from Napoleonic times, when such forces browbeat conquered peasants into accepting the physical and symbolic power of the French state.
More agreeable was his duty as earl marshal, choreographing the annual opening of Parliament by the monarch, a ceremony largely unchanged since medieval times.Everyone agreed that he brought a soldierly efficiency to the event, in which he had to walk backwards before the queen without tripping.
Army rule shifted the centre of power further from them still, for the army is largely Punjabi and Pathan, and those groups reaped the benefits of soldierly rule.The first generation of mohajirs mostly sat quiet, as first-generation immigrants, insecure in their new home, often do.
