I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a financial/economic/military etc disaster
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The project was a financial disaster.
a military advantage
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The military advantage had shifted towards the rebels.
a military alliance
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NATO has been the most successful military alliance in history.
a military band (= musicians who play music on military occasions )
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a military band with their brass and their drums
a military college (= where you learn to be an officer in the army )
a military defeat
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The president resigned following a series of military defeats.
a military expedition
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The generals decided to launch a military expedition to the region.
a military leader
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The country’s military leader had seized power in a coup.
a military plane
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Air Force jets intercepted two military planes that had entered the no-fly zone.
a military rebellion/an army rebellion
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Marlborough considered leading a military rebellion against the new king.
a military regime
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The military regime arrrested anyone who dared to speak against it.
a military target
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The group insists that its bombs were directed against military targets.
a military threat
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Each country regarded the other as a major military threat.
a military victory
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one of the General’s most famous military victories
a military/army coup
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He seized power in a military coup in 1977.
a military/army/troop convoy
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28 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military convoy.
a military/naval power (= with a very strong army or navy )
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Russia had become a naval power equal to Spain.
a military/political etc concession
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In the past they have tried to exchange territorial concessions for peace.
a political/medical/military etc career
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The scandal ruined his political career.
a political/military/economic setback
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The defeat represented a major political setback for the conservatives.
a religious/military/biological etc metaphor
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He uses a military metaphor to describe these women as ‘storming’ the castle of male power.
an army/naval/military etc officer
an economic/military/business/political etc objective
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We have made good progress towards meeting our business objectives.
art/literary/military etc historian
do military service
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More and more men are refusing to do military service .
for political/military/educational/medicinal etc purposes
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This technology could be used for military purposes.
Military Academy
military action
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America is not ruling out military action against Iran.
military affairs
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the president’s advisor on military affairs
military aid
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Israel is the largest recipient of U.S. economic and military aid.
military assistance
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Beijing renewed its military assistance to North Korea.
military command
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A large area was already under US military command.
Military Cross
military discipline (= the kind of strict discipline imposed in the army )
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I hated the army and the routine of military discipline.
military equipment
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The sale of military equipment to the regime is banned.
military forces
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He served with the military forces during the war.
military manoeuvres
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Large-scale military manoeuvres are being carried out near the border.
military offensive
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a military offensive
military police
military precision (= the work was done in a carefully planned and exact way )
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The work was carried out with military precision .
military secrets
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He was sent to prison for five years in 1933 for selling military secrets to Germany.
military service
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More and more men are refusing to do military service .
military success
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This military success was achieved at a cost.
military technology
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Military technology makes huge advances during wartime.
military/defence expenditure (= money that a government spends on the armed forces )
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Military expenditure has been growing year on year.
military/nuclear etc capability
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America’s nuclear capability
military/political etc cooperation
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The association deals with trade and economic cooperation.
military/service personnel
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There have been attacks upon US military personnel.
military/violent/armed confrontation
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Japan seemed unlikely to risk military confrontation with Russia.
police/military custody
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There have been several cases in which people have died in police custody.
political/economic/military power
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countries with little economic power
political/military financial etc ends
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The government exploited the situation for political ends.
the military/defence establishment
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The committee has many political figures who are close to the military establishment.
the political/military balance
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By this time, the political balance in the Cabinet had altered.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
academy
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Churches were destroyed and thousands of Christians converged on a military academy and police stations in the town to seek protection.
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They are trained in separate military academies , and their salaries are believed to be among the best in government service.
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M is a former all-male military academy .
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They all went to the same military academy and they were all in the same class.
action
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In relative terms, Britain was shown to be a middle-ranking power with her ability to take independent military action strictly limited.
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On the one hand military action must be pursued with maximum efficiency, defined by military criteria.
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The West's failure to seek authorisation from the council for military action was understandable but serious.
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Both organizations demanded his return to power, while not endorsing military action .
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In Smolensk guberniia a long list of bridges, points, and crossings had been blown up in military action .
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Virtually everyone agrees that if there is to be any military action in Bosnia it must be accompanied by a congressional resolution.
aid
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Yet on the other hand an agreement had been reached for mutual military aid as early as 1609.
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Of the whole package, US$1,800 million was military aid .
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Reagan was forced to announce that he was withdrawing his requests for additional military aid to El Salvador until after the elections.
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Significantly, section five of the amendment allowed Congress to provide military aid , if necessary, to enforce its provisions.
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In January 1947, the State Department began intensified planning to provide military aid .
aircraft
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All single-engine, high performance, military aircraft fly with a degree of inherent risk.
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Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed makes military aircraft , space systems, missiles and electronics systems.
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This is not usual in civil aircraft systems though it is occasionally done in some military aircraft.
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Government expenditures can reabsorb these resources in the production of guided missiles, military aircraft , and new schools and highways.
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This gave me the chance to see many different military aircraft .
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We invented the submarine and were the first to purchase a military aircraft .
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Smiths make instruments for civil and military aircraft , and has already been hit hard by cuts in defence spending.
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Pilots reported 23 near collisions between military aircraft and civilian airliners in 1990, but 14 in 1995.
alliance
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He said this summer that the Warsaw Pact had to become a political rather than a military alliance .
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Tuesday, the three countries were invited to join the Western military alliance in 1999.
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The military alliance is offering a first prize of £130,000, as well as several runner-up prizes worth at least £60,000 each.
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For all these years we had this huge military alliance designed to thwart the dreaded Commies.
assistance
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As for military assistance , it was nonexistent.
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Soon he was turning to other foreign friends with desperate appeals for military assistance .
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The ban on military assistance to the Contras remained in place.
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According to the organisers, both races rely on military assistance , which could not be guaranteed in the present crisis.
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The ceasefire would be guaranteed by international observers, and outside military assistance to either side would be prohibited.
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He also suggested seeking technical and military assistance from abroad to deal with such problems as drug trafficking.
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Since Mr Obasanjo's ascension, U.S. agencies have provided $ 109 million in political, economic and military assistance .
authority
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Since that time, it has suffered repression from the government and military authorities .
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Scores of buildings were requisitioned by the military authorities and had to be evacuated.
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In contrast local military authorities would brook no delay.
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Alsop, said the memo, is a civilian columnist and is not accepted as a military authority .
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Outside, the military authorities began enforcing an undeclared night-time curfew.
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All the incidents are still under investigation by civilian and military authorities .
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During the currency of a lease a house was requisitioned by the military authorities .
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On the other hand, military authorities reportedly aided the police and white citizens in disarming blacks to prevent further violence.
base
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In the 1960s Soviet specialists reinterpreted international law to bolster Moscow's declared opposition to foreign military bases .
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Some convention delegates live near military bases that were closing or had closed.
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Today sees a second order being flown out to the military base at Kaliningrad.
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At one military base , one housing area had no sidewalks.
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The 550-acre naval station at Treasure Island is one of 29 California military bases closed in 1993 by Congress.
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New Times has contacted numerous military bases in the Southwest, but none claims the planes.
capability
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And Britain's military capability-marginally useful to us during the Gulf war-has vanished with successive budget cuts.
commander
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Much more than a military commander , Pompey appointed kings and created new Roman provinces.
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They fled to Fort Gibson, where the military commander accorded them temporary protection until he could get instructions from Washington.
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Senior military commanders have also quietly thrown their support behind Gen Bimantoro, according to political sources.
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But in recent months top military commanders have dispatched a message of their own to the president.
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Estrada's military commanders had deserted him.
conflict
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Nevertheless, national security issues and the incidence of military conflict remain highly significant.
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While the government-in-exile headed by Sawyer proposed to send representatives to Monrovia to discuss its peace plan, the military conflict continued.
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As stockpiles dwindled, the continuing impasse in negotiations rendered military conflict increasingly likely.
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How much does intelligence really matter-outside military conflict ?
coup
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After years of military rule, they know that it usually means just one thing: a military coup .
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Chun was the leader of the December 1979 military coup that vaulted a new generation to power.
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René seized power in a military coup in June 1977.
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Provoke a military coup against Hussein.
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As the threat of a military coup increased he rallied to the Protectorate.
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A military coup robbed him of three of his five years in office.
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Guzmán, 44, had been legal adviser to Gen. Augusto Pinochet after the 1973 military coup .
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Namphy's administration was itself overthrown on Sept. 18 in a further military coup led by Brig. -Gen.
court
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It was reported that he would be tried by a military court on corruption charges and for plotting an alleged coup.
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Violators faced trial by closed military courts .
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However the case was passed to the military courts who revoked the arrest order.
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Polygraph evidence is not permitted in most criminal trials, including those in military courts .
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The judgment was pronounced by a military court at Blida on May 2.
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The gold fringe outlining the flag signifies the martial law administered by a military court , they say.
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Another 76 other police and troops, including an army general, were absolved by the military court after a 15-week trial.
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The government has announced that culprits in the scandal will be tried by military court .
dictatorship
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Everything is now in place for a rigged election that seems likely to usher in a military dictatorship .
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Since 1980, 57 countries have replaced military dictatorships or other forms of one-party rule with democratic elections.
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In Montevideo the Frente Amplio was founded as a coalition of diverse left currents against the military dictatorship .
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Only military dictatorship would be capable of sustaining an ordered society in the aftermath of such a conflict.
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The 1966 Constitution was suspended in 1973 and replaced by a military dictatorship .
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Outside the town, the killing goes on, despite the transition in 1985 from military dictatorship to elected civilian government.
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There is a new insistence on the illegitimacy of debts incurred by military dictatorships and other repressive regimes.
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That is why soldiers called Metaxas and Papadopoulos have from time to time felt obliged to step forward and try a spot of military dictatorship .
equipment
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Its sheer size in one consideration, its huge stock of military equipment is another.
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Pursue unarmed forces to retrieve military equipment .
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The missiles were military equipment and confirmed that the army had descended into chaos.
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Other firms are manufacturing radios, wired and fiber-optic telecommunications, military equipment and satellite receivers in San Diego.
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Washington has since provided the island with military equipment .
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The recent improvement in East-West relations must also make the market for military equipment less favourable.
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In the army, specific amounts of military equipment were allocated to the company supply sections.
establishment
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Leaders of the military establishment do not, any more than their civilian colleagues, define their economy by its defects.
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As that buildup occurred, the United States would have plenty of time to rebuild its military establishment after any sharp cutbacks.
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In the United States the economic impact of the size of the post-war military establishment and budget has been tremendous.
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Having made real progress in establishing democratic governments and free markets, they seek to professionalize their military establishments .
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Political parties need to support the modern military establishment and upgrade the facilities of the army.
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The last traces of independence within the military establishment were removed and the State's powers of coercion greatly enhanced.
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Security is a high priority in all military establishments , and sentries are constantly on patrol, twenty-four hours a day.
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A separate investigation showed significant excesses round the Aldermaston and Burghfield military establishments in Berkshire.
expenditure
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Greater stability would give poorer nations the opportunity to reduce their own military expenditure .
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Despite that military expenditure , there are many situations where the military is useless, says Edward Djerejian.
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This, it can be argued. was due to popular pressure against high military expenditure .
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Thus the crucial objectives were to limit military expenditure and to focus resources on domestic issues.
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Of the republican budget 2.8 percent was voted for military expenditure .
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The functionality of military expenditure resides for structuralists in the contribution it makes to the ideological hegemony of the capitalist system.
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Similarly, much military expenditure may have a direct destabilising effect on a country's balance of payments.
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Parliamentary revenues brought in about £300,000 between 1512 and 1517, only one-third of military expenditure .
force
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Their owners plan to fire them at an enemy's military forces rather than against cities or factories.
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Within the former Soviet Union there remains a large military force .
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Even as her military forces were strengthened and were winning the Cold War, her power in the marketplace shrank.
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As Ahmed Bayturson, commander of the Kirghiz-Kazakh military forces , put it later:.
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Y., said the country should maintain a strong standing military force .
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We understand the concern of agencies which believe that dealing with military forces compromises their neutrality.
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According to Chung, Roh saw the president within hours and strongly recommended against using military force .
forces
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Linked to this is the upkeep of military forces and armaments for domestic reasons.
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Members of the military forces must also fulfil a quota of work in the fields.
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Even as her military forces were strengthened and were winning the Cold War, her power in the marketplace shrank.
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Women hold only subordinate positions in the military forces .
government
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The military government is reported to have begun granting timber concessions to logging companies in areas opened up by oil company roads.
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Hodge lamented the rift between the military government and the rightists after their earlier cooperation.
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Nominal independence in 1960 brought a succession of inept, mostly military governments .
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After some years of deliberating, the sharia court, not the military government , ruled that interest-free banking be implemented.
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A series of military governments followed, with a radical left-wing regime being installed by Capt. Thomas Sankara in August 1983.
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This is after the economic miracle, drastic military government , unserviceable debt.
intelligence
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Incidents such as this one were commonly reported by military intelligence as evidence of black ties with radical groups.
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They suggested Colonel Wong may have been detained because, as head of military intelligence , he failed to uncover the plot.
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His background and knowledge had directed him to the branch of military intelligence centred on Northern Ireland.
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Andreotti on Oct. 22 dismissed the chief of military intelligence , Adml.
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One military intelligence soldier fired on a months ago claiming he felt his life was threatened.
intervention
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Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ?
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Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who argued against military intervention there.
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However, he continued to press the need for military intervention to support, he said, worker risings in the country.
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Short of a hostile military intervention in Kosovo, there are other ways of bringing outside power to bear.
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In recent decades, these three regions have been the focus of political, economic and military interventions by the great powers.
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On the evidence, military intervention was perceived as a serious contingency in early 1981.
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WAW-ITG is open to all women opposed to military intervention in the Gulf.
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These consequences have to be faced because the governments of the West were understandably fearful about the cost of a military intervention .
junta
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Apparently when the military junta was overthrown Garcia managed to get sent over here through a contact in the embassy.
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A military junta had just overthrown the constitutional government and annulled a recently held presidential election.
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Prior to July 1963, political power was held by a military junta .
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Guei's announcement also has reportedly split the military junta that rules the country of 16 million.
leader
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The new military leader confirmed that Venda's situation would be put to a referendum.
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Naturally, the secret police and the military leaders were men, and they subjected their female prisoners to sexually specific tortures.
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As a military leader , the prophet Joshua knew the importance of engaging the enemy, the preacher continues.
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More than a dozen other former military leaders also are being investigated.
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The military leader , Colonel Acheampong, wanted him to have a state funeral.
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The military leader was returned to the post he first held from 1979 until 1991, when public discontent forced him out.
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Washington, indeed, was both a statesman and a military leader .
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The process began in January 1942 when Churchill and his military leaders came to Washington to discuss strategy.
man
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Obvious examples include inventors, medics and military men .
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Franklin Roosevelt told friends he believed Alsop and Kintner could do him more good as columnists than as military men .
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First the governor, a military man , demurred.
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Colonel Lewis Pick, the architect of the tribes' inundation, was the embodiment of a no-nonsense military man .
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On two occasions in 1992 military men tried to depose him.
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In fort Worlft Even coming back he was a military man .
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Liberal chums tell me that old, white, military men top the bill.
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He was, in short, a military man .
officer
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After an hour at Customs, a military officer took us to a restaurant and then to the barracks to sleep.
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Opposition sources also claimed that a number of senior civil and military officers had recently been detained or executed for anti-government activities.
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Franklin Delano, the son-in-law of William Astor; and a group of high-ranking military officers .
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Some of the burgh politicians were themselves military officers .
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The move caught top military officers and senior members of the House and Senate Armed Services committees by surprise.
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This policy was associated with the radical Arab nationalism of the middle-ranking military officers who had carried out the June 1989 coup.
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She was a secretary to military officers during that period.
official
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But military officials denied any such changes are being contemplated.
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Hartzog acknowledged that some military officials question his vision.
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On April 16 a leading Amal military official was assassinated in Beirut.
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A number of lawmakers, independent experts, and former military officials have also expressed this view, including Indiana Sen.
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Senior military officials , including Gen.
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Their departure is apparently on schedule, military officials say.
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Both Alexander and Nicholas were also extremely concerned to perpetuate noble preponderance among senior civil and military officials .
operation
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Read in studio A military operation involving four thousand servicemen has ended with a dramatic finale over Salisbury Plain.
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The rescue was launched early Friday with all the trappings of a crack military operation .
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It had become difficult for him to imagine anything other than a successful outcome to his diplomatic and military operations .
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But it is not clear whether the military operation which unfolded yesterday could have been organised in only four days.
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This is not a military operation .
personnel
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As many as 200 civilians and an unknown number of military personnel died during heavy fighting between government and rebel forces.
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Local, civil, and military personnel patrol or enclose ancient sites.
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What will happen when another 40,000 military personnel are made redundant as a result of the White Paper proposals?
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Unlike the Navy, the Marines use military personnel to handle firefighting and many other tasks delegated to civilians.
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Six truckloads of military police were sent by the army to clear out all military personnel so they would not be involved.
police
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The Special Investigation Branch of the military police is conducting more than 30 investigations into allegations of brutality.
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More military police and an infantry division was called into action, and the riot was quickly ended the next day.
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Civil police , who perform investigations, tend to be paid slightly less than military police, who patrol communities.
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The lanky, 6-foot-4-inch captain coordinates the moves with military police , engineers, medics and rescue crews.
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It was full of soldiers and of military police , and I was near despair.
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Six truckloads of military police were sent by the army to clear out all military personnel so they would not be involved.
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The ring's leader allegedly was Hildebrando Pascoal, a national congressman and military police colonel, who was arrested last September.
power
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In foreign affairs, he leaned heavily in the late 1970s on the United States as a counterweight to Soviet military power .
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Only the military power conferred by industry could help them do this.
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One might find the hugeness of the vessel interesting; it signifies military power on the move.
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He is freed by Britomart, his betrothed, whose chastity gives her great military powers .
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The primary danger of war was the irrational arms race and overly hostile relations between the major military powers .
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Military planning, however, meant little without more military power .
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This spelled the end of the Brezhnev doctrine, under which Soviet military power enforced the loyalty of its peripheral satellite states.
presence
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However, this is a much larger military presence than during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
regime
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There is still concern that a military regime would be reluctant to prosecute its own kind.
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When the military regime cracked down, massacring hundreds, he escaped through the jungle.
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Human-rights groups may carp at foreigners for dealing with an unpleasant military regime .
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The political legitimacy of military regimes is frequently suspect and originates in their exclusiveness and monopoly of force.
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Nowadays Darra has become an embarrassment to a military regime desperate to dam the flood of weapons flowing through it.
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In a 1952 revolution they overthrew a military regime and won nationalization of the large mines under workers' co-management.
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Each of the half-dozen military regimes since then has eventually foundered on the strength of the miners.
rule
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The exiled monarch had also called for an immediate end to military rule .
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It also removed many of the restrictions imposed during the period of military rule between 1964 and 1985.
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Existing political parties were banned, and a period of military rule followed.
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The end of military rule in 1999 was cause for fresh optimism.
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Existing political parties were banned; after a period of military rule a single-party system was established in 1969.
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They advocated an immediate end to military rule and the holding of a national conference of all political forces.
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The new government's policy document promised a new constitution to replace the one formulated under military rule in 1982.
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After a period of military rule from March 1967 to April 1968 a republican Constitution was adopted in April 1971.
service
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Small farms were assigned to sons of noblemen and promising warriors, on condition they reported annually for military service .
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Franken also avoided military service with student deferments while at Harvard and, ultimately, a high lottery number.
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It is true that the archbishop's lands were already overstocked with knights in relation to the military service due from them.
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Hal was just twenty-five years old and fresh out of military service .
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Although trained as a baker, Hilprecht had been on the dole since doing his military service .
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The United States further reserves to these provisions with respect to individuals who volunteer for military service prior to age 18.
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There has been a comparable fall in support for increasing military defence spending and compulsory military service .
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The military services themselves have adapted remarkably well and are not less respected for it.
unit
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The army preferred to keep order without the aid of unreliable military units .
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That effort produced only modest reductions in uniformed personnel and military units and preserved all major procurement programs.
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S.-sponsored military unit would apply to Joe if Chennault wanted him in his command.
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After all, he had managed to defeat the system and was in sole command of a small military unit .
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Each figure represents one of the military units that fought in the Battle of Baltimore in September of 1814.
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Initial reports indicated hundreds had been killed when a military unit had been stoned by a hungry and unruly mob.
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Medical appointments in military units were believed to provide useful experience to recent graduates or students, and were much in demand.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
army/navy/military etc brat
border/military/customs/police post
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Administrative offices and on-campus police posts were damaged by stones and petrol bombs in three Tunis University faculties.
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But yesterday at the Hendaye border post , near Bayonne, lorries were passing freely without any form of control.
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Deng was made senior deputy premier and soon added party and military posts .
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However, he formally accepted the appointment on April 7 after resigning his military posts .
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In reality guerrilla action was largely indiscriminate with sporadic attacks on the occasional landlord, local official, or police post .
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The border post formalities are quickly completed.
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This commemorates the creation in 1829 of a political and military post to govern the islands.
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When she first arrived, she had thought the place as orderly as a military post .
jury/military/community etc service
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Doing jury service could be one of them.
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He envisaged combining farming and family life with military service in idyllic rural settlements.
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He was fined $ 250 and required to perform community service .
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Like the House measure, the Senate bill requires public housing residents to contribute eight hours of community service a month.
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Normally feudal grants were made within the Patrimony and the Papal State in return for military service .
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The offer included a $ 250 fine, community service and domestic violence counseling.
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What will be attempted is a sketched framework for the illumination of community service profiles.
the military police
with full military honours
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After they have been examined, they will be buried with full military honours at one of the war graves.
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Cody was subsequently given a funeral with full military honours by the Aldershot garrison.
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He was buried with full military honours in Manchester.
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Memories of a man coming home for burial, with full military honours ... Such a very long time ago.
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The real leg was buried in the field of battle-with full military honours .
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The service was conducted with full military honours , ending in shots being fired over Paul's coffin.
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They are reburied with full military honours in the region's Commonwealth war graves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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China reportedly planned to sell military equipment to Saudi Arabia.
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German military power was restricted after World War II.
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Peres said the military campaign would last as long as it took to secure the country's northern border.
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The President visited a military cemetery at Bitburg.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both were marauding, tribal war-leaders whose main aim was to bring military glory to themselves and their followers.
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It is now a museum of military history, but was once full of armed men and artillery.
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Schellenberg's office at Prinz Albrechtstrasse had a military camp bed in one corner for he often spent the night there.
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There is no indication that Wilfrid exercised any influence on Caedwalla's secular and military activities.
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They may petition for mercy from the prime minister in his capacity as military governor.
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We might borrow here from military jargon.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
soviet
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Unless the Soviet military intervenes, self-determination must surely lead to reunification.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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First, there is the degree to which the military is isolated from the rest of society.
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The military failed to respond to the offer.
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The military is the only one who really has this equipment....
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There were months of interrogations, torture and repression as the military tightened its grip on the country.
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Those arrested by the military were subsequently released without trial.
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War and the military had become unpopular in academic and intellectual circles.
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Western diplomats believe the role of the well-armed Yugoslav military will prove pivotal in deciding whether all-out war erupts in Bosnia.