| 词汇 | example_english_army |
| 释义 | Examples of armyThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The army's political power distorted rights protection and market fairness. Arguably that is so in the paradigm cases of armies and mental asylums. The fear of standing armies went hand-in-hand with the fear of a corruption of the body politic. Drafts to replace losses would still leave the armies 100,000 men short in 1918, which would cause the suppression of about six divisions. Especially horrific were 1796, 1799, 1805, 1809, and 1813-15, for it was then that the biggest armies were present for longest. What is most striking is the way that states managed to build highly coherent political systems without the use of standing armies. Others found work as foot soldiers in the private armies of wealthy notables or as independent bandits. The commerce and theft of the two armies certainly suggests mercenary objectives rather than the close cooperation of allies. Both countries mobilized their armies, but pressure from the international community averted further escalation. Concomitantly, we see the emergence of professionally oriented armies that are no longer the mass armies of the modern era preparing for total war. The outcome was another valuable lesson that was incorporated into the army's written doctrine. His standard response was that 'in popular armies, partisan armies etc., the movement is obliged to utilise women in war also'. Despite local revenues being higher than the expenditures, the army's local battalions had not been paid for more than three months. As both armies waited for sunrise, a tempest arose and the dawn was darkened by dust clouds, so that men could scarce behold one another. Had he not repeatedly raised armies of volunteers to serve the national cause? Most of the leaders, including the armies of lower-level local organisers, received no financial compensation for their efforts. Their households were essentially private armies, set up to ensure personal security. Bridges facilitated contact, and were used by armies. The salt voucher system thus provided a means whereby merchants supplying frontier armies in the northwest ultimately received reimbursement in bronze coin. They at once agreed on the priority of political 'renovation', o and on the need to overcome the army's threat to kakushin. They mobilized and deployed larger armies and naval forces that were able to use the new gunpowder weaponry effectively. He hoped that it would reduce the size of armies by making each soldier more efficient and effective. Anxiety was increased by mixed reports of how the campaign was going, and how much threat there was of a siege by enemy armies. Navies, being more equipment-dependent than armies, were less capable of improvisation, and had a proportionately higher profile in peacetime than manpower-dependent armies. The devastating reciprocal effect of the wars on royal finances, and of financial collapse on the armies, becomes all too clear. Targeted programmes ameliorate immediate hunger but do not prevent the arrival of new armies of the poor. The subtitle of the book emphasizes that it is a study of the rebel armies, and its reconstruction of the hosts is detailed and complex. Visionary though he was, he did not foresee that, in the twentieth century, some armies would not flinch from the prospect of genocidal war. The general public, however, responded ambivalently to this position, regarding these musicians as the army's allies. Voluntary enlistment in the royalist armies is also highlighted as a route to freedom. To judge by the literature on the subject, armies in the post-modern era are undergoing organizational restructuring, with their goals also changing. When such detail is not central to explaining the outcome of a battle or the effectiveness of armies in the field, it is omitted. Second, conventional armies in ethnically polarised settings are a poor instrument for fighting rebel groups that deliberately use mass abductions and terror as war strategies. The trend toward professionalism in the armies of industrial nations is universal, suggesting that some factors must be at work across national boundaries. Proud armies have often been decimated, even destroyed, by epidemics; wars and thus the fate of peoples have been decided by them. The militarization of urban society was, rather, a by-product of the general military revolution, which included the introduction of standing armies. The two battling rulers stand (probably) on the border between their cities, and their armies are depicted behind them. As princely armies were cut back and elite display trimmed, domestic markets tended to contract-promoting de-urbanization and de-industrialization. Wars, even verbal ones, require armies, and soldiers must be recruited and trained. Nonetheless, canoe-builders, oarsmen and actual canoes were doubtless pooled for naval campaigns in much the same way that large-scale armies were. The value and symbolism of colours hardly died with post-feudal armies. At the same time the chief of the army's general staff had gained confidence in his own success. The resulting instability would ensure rule by vast standing armies. The economic unit, the family, endeavoured to fill the gap created by the army's mobilization. Military culture is usually related to its parent civilian culture, yet remains distinctive, comprising an army's self-definition, operational traditions, and martial doctrine. Can armies be agents of conflict resolution, harbingers of peace on earth? Changes in the size of the armies over time as well as the recruitment by region are controlled for in the regression analysis. The effect on the army's officer situation was immediate. The army's offensive operation quickly gave way to attrition. Here was the army's strong arm, a force that had served with unrivalled dedication, determination, and distinction. The army's material loss was a bonanza for its enemy. The gentry likewise upheld the law, stood up for an orderly society, yet on occasion raised private armies and fought their rivals. The army's commitment on paper to solving its problems through the application of rational analysis was heavily circumscribed by a second, and even more powerful, body of ideas. Every government faced the spiralling demands of military expenditure, in a world where political communities without armies could be wiped off the face of the map. The conspirators wanted to halt the process by negotiating a peaceful end to the civil wars, so that the army's vestigial honour was preserved and the state's integrity ensured. One useful recent categorisation distinguishes between ' hard ' and ' soft ' power : coercive versus persuasive power, the power of armies and judges versus the power of propaganda and bribery. More significant, however, is the fact that the volunteer militias were almost completely free of government control, virtual private armies free to roam the countryside at will. However, the central, and also the most problematic, element in most of the literature on post-modern armies is, beyond its liberal end-of-war diagnosis, the causal connection adduced in explanation. The old service is constructed around a prosopographical study of over six hundred men commissioned as colonels - commanders of regiments - in the royal armies between 1642 and 1646. The qualities and limitations of specific bodies of troops emerge as key factors ; armies were made up of distinct groups of specialists, who were simply not interchangeable. The bereaved parents were outraged at the army's tendency to play down the severity of the accidents and to establish internal investigative commissions, which often whitewashed the incidents. The army's combat zone had shrunk. Such a catastrophe could not have happened without the army's loss of will, the government's estrangement from civil society and, of course, the unfaltering determination and competence of the insurgents. The intricacies of the complicated court ceremonial would have been meaningless without their knowledge; they led armies and determined state policy; they had their own schools and cloisters. Especially well done is his study of the army's conflict with civilian ruling elites that culminated in a national saviour self-perception and a fear of competitors to military prerogatives. Despite their basic similarities in structure, armies' ethos and functioning, and thereby the behaviour and resilience of their soldiers, were therefore profoundly influenced by societal culture. The book is quick to identify that most of the existing regulation to control the use of lethal force in wars is directed at states and standing armies. The army's political space was exhausted. Both armies treated campesinos with excessive violence. The army's memory of conflicts with regional elites and their national guards was one of attempts by the ruling class to destroy the true embodiment of nationhood. If it is true that modern military technology is in some ways the product of modern armies, conversely the same technology had the effect of strengthening and reinforcing those armies. What fortuitous combination of circumstances, or what weird chance encounters of strangers, caused secret armies and assassin squads to invade the ivory towers of the classical composer? His accumulation of data will force a number of writers to sit down and reconsider how armies went about the nasty business of destroying each other. The general problems of discipline in civil war armies, the attractions of plunder, and the abandonment of restraints and distinctions when blood was up, all endangered them. Often, however, it hindered the army's operation. The preponderance of scholarship makes sense given the rural base of the largest insurgent armies in that massive upheaval, and the unprecedented agrarian reforms, however problematic, that followed. Then was the time to get ready for the obvious contingency and the great necessity, obviously of keeping the armies in being. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Well, the armies are lasting, and they look like lasting indefinitely. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We imagined —our newspapers said it—that they could command armies, that they would fight for us, and would settle the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most of it was for the local services and supplies we had purchased to maintain the armies which protected them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not advocate the armies of inspectors should be established to enforce such legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have no need to summon up armies to support our logic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If such armies are cheek by jowl across a frontier, the danger always exists that someone will violate that frontier. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In some countries, it is true, armies enjoy a suzerainty which they are at pains to proclaim as temporary. However, there was no further fighting and the two armies drew off. Together they acted as recruiters responsible for bringing together the large numbers of men who constituted the armies of the day. The same might apply in reverse, of course, and the enemy army's arousal not be heard from here. In principle, feudal tenure was the source from which most monarchs and most great lords recruited their armies between the tenth century and the twelfth. Finally, militias were supposed to be strategically more effective than standing armies in matters of defence. He also pointed out that in any event such governments would still require small standing armies to police and repress their own populations. As to mortality in armies by disease, this might perhaps be regarded as destroying the weaker and less immune. There was, however, a widespread feeling that very large armies were undesirable because they were difficult to supply and manoeuvre. Indeed, it has even been argued that the army's own internal co-ordination, command and logistics were deficient. Apparently it wanted to compensate for the army's losses on land by solidifying its own position at sea. Over the years, the traffickers made common cause with wealthy landowners by funding rightist paramilitary armies to repel the guerrillas. Given the nascent army's triumph over local bosses, a new centralised power emerged, not civilians, but the armed forces themselves. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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