Sentence examples for unit such as from inspiring English sources

The lieutenant normally commands a small tactical unit such as a platoon.

It was probably sent from behind enemy lines by a special operations unit such as the SAS or SBS.

Distance is the length of a course measured in some well-known unit, such as feet or chains.

After the Diallo shooting, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani made some important changes in the Street Crime Unit, such as adding more minority officers and improving training.

Even within a political unit such as ours, where a free press is fundamental to our society, the right to know stops at the threshold of the State Dept.

After the foundation of larger political units, such as leagues or empires, contributions were made to a central temple of the political unit, such as the temple of Enlil at Nippur in the Nippur league.

Kennedy said that a repair unit such as R2 could become a reality right now: "We can build an R2 today, a lot of what it is technically possible with what we have.

That same year Americans spent over $6.9 billion on games for a personal computer (PC) or a console (ie, a television-based unit such as Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's Playstation, or Nintendo's Gamecube).

A standard is the physical embodiment of a unit, such as the platinum-iridium cylinder kept by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Paris as the standard kilogram.

A conventional cross-linker without triptycene unit such as hydroquinone diacrylate (HDA) was used under the same conditions for comparison.

Alternate conjugated copolymers consisting of phenylene or biphenylylene unit and linear carbons unit such as cumulene and polyyne were synthesized.