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Example sentences for "military affairs"

  • Mr. Lincoln looked at the unsatisfactory spectacle and held his hand as long as he could, dreading perhaps again to seem too forward in assuming control of military affairs.

  • Instead of one mind, there were many minds influencing the management of military affairs.

  • John Washington, grandfather of Augustine, distinguished himself in military affairs, and became lieutenant-colonel in the wars against the Indians.

  • Where will it meet a man so experienced in military affairs--one so renowned for patriotism, conduct, and courage?

  • The ignorance of Dinwiddie in military affairs, and his want of forecast, led him perpetually into blunders.

  • While these events were occurring on the Virginia frontier, military affairs went on tardily and heavily at the north.

  • Mr. Barksdale (President's friend) had it easily referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.

  • Smith would undoubtedly have a strong motive in defending the capital--but then he knows nothing of military affairs, yet I think he will be appointed.

  • Logan, chairman of the Committee for Negro Participation in the National Defense, in testimony before the House Committee on Military Affairs.

  • For it were hard to determine which of the two had been most profuse, most effeminate, which was most a novice in military affairs, and most involved in debt through previous want of means.

  • These are pretty nearly all the eminent actions of Cato, relating to military affairs: in civil policy, he was of opinion, that one chief duty consisted in accusing and indicting criminals.

  • It was there referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, as that committee already had before them seven bills relating to the same subject.

  • During the war he occupied the arduous and responsible position in the Senate of Chairman of the Committee of Military Affairs.

  • As chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, he felt disinclined to give it up.

  • Mr. Wardwell, of New-York, objected to the appointment of a select committee, and thought the inquiry ought to go to the standing committee on military affairs.

  • The amendment fell on the single ground, by one vote, that the Committee on Finance had before it the identical proposition made by the Committee on Military Affairs.

  • What topics are considered under "military affairs"?

  • To dispose of Gettysburg or the Wilderness in ten lines or ten pages is equally absurd to the serious student of military affairs.

  • In July, 1799, Colonel Wellesley was appointed to the sole command of Seringapatam and Mysore; and here his capacity for civil government, as well as in military affairs, was fully developed.

  • The tactics of Napoleon had, by long practice, been pretty well understood, by those studious of military affairs.

  • With the glance of an eye, the most expert in military affairs, he saw the danger of involving himself in such impracticable defiles as the valley of Culm, and the roads which communicated with it, and resolved to proceed no farther.

  • Thus Don Juan Manuel withdrew him, and the two ruled over political matters, Don Francisco Coloma signing first, and Don Juan Manuel de la Peña governed in military affairs.

  • In January, 1918, this Medical and Surgical Division became known as the Medical and Surgical Section of the Department of Military Affairs, while Captain C.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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