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standing army

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meanings of standingand army


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standing
adjective[before noun]
uk /ˈstæn.dɪŋ/ us /ˈstæn.dɪŋ/
permanent, rather than formed or created ...
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army
noun
uk /ˈɑː.mi/ us /ˈɑːr.mi/
a particular country's ...
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It played host to between a third and a quarter of the empire's standingarmy.
The instrument that tied nobles' dynastic policies to the king's own was the large standingarmy.
The expansion of the standingarmy was made possible by sounder royal finances.
Although these historians acknowledged the importance of military reform and highlighted early attempts at establishing a modern standingarmy, they were not consistent in pursuing the development of military institutions.
Yet, it would be a simplistic view to consider the language and ideas of the standingarmy debates as the mere product of sophisticated minds bred in classical culture.
The campaign itself was crucially shaped by the annual constitutional requirement, that parliament pass an act to make lawful the existence of a standingarmy in peacetime.
We still consider that a standingarmy should be kept in this country only on sufferance, as a temporary expedient.
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Are we prepared to maintain a standingarmy in the area indefinitely?
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I do not make that as a debating point, but to show that it is not a standingarmy.
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No one is proposing that there should be a large standingarmy of investigators to deal with the maximum caseload.
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Nobody wants a standingarmy, but a small reserve bringing together international experts might be a good idea.
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He thereafter concluded than an effective standingarmy—that is, regular armed forces—was essential for the survival of civilised nations.
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The numbers of these men, what are known as the standingarmy, are increasing by leaps and bounds.
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I propose now to revive very briefly the ancient argument used against the standingarmy.
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The cost of that standingarmy was £370,000 a year.
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The standingarmy is a very different thing.
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He can prove that there is no standingarmy of nearly 2,000,000 un- employed.
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Today we do have a standingarmy—which we do not control—on our territory.
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