Corps
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This will require training an expanded
corps
of community health workers, including heads of households, teachers, faith leaders, and traditional healers.
For example, Trump recently shouted to the press
corps
assembled on the White House driveway that the whistleblower’s charges were all “lies,” even though the charges have been broadly confirmed by witnesses before the committees.
Its founder, Ren Zhengfei, received his technical education in part as a member of the People’s Liberation Army engineering corps, and the PLA became one of his first major customers.
The EU is still the world’s largest market, comprises some of the largest national aid budgets, accounts for the second-highest level of defense spending, and can deploy the largest diplomatic
corps.
Shortly before the COVID-19 crisis erupted, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi instructed the country’s diplomatic
corps
to adopt a more assertive approach to defending China’s interests and reputation abroad.
A
corps
of predominantly white, male finance professionals based in Midtown Manhattan or Mayfair, London, will not understand the intractable global challenges that impact investments are supposed to tackle.
But because he was a Jew, his guilt was assumed from the start, particularly by most of the French officer
corps.
After this, he no longer hesitated, but sent off telegrams on all sides--to the prefect of Lille, to the
corps
of soldiery at Douai, to the police at Marchiennes.
The National Guard of Buchy (there was none at Yonville) had come to join the
corps
of firemen, of whom Binet was captain.
The evil was greatly increased by the activity of the English in profiting by these internal dissensions; and it became doubly serious when it was found that attempts were made to raise various
corps
of provincial troops, who were to be banded with those from Europe, to reduce the young republic to subjection.
The
corps
- we presume, from their known affection to that useful animal - had received the quaint appellation of "Cowboys."
"I think I did much better," he cried, taking a chair between his sisters, and receiving their offered salutes, "to secure a good bed and such a plentiful breakfast, instead of trusting to the hospitality of that renowned corps, the Cowboys."
Several pistols were fired in quick succession; and the next instant the trumpets of the
corps
rang in his ears with the enlivening strain of "To arms!"
But legions and independent
corps
were formed in different places, as it best accorded with the views of the royal commanders, or suited the exigency of the times.
One particular body of the subsidiary troops was included in this arrange ment, and the Hessian yagers were transformed into a
corps
of heavy and inactive horse.
Perhaps the world could not furnish more brave, enterprising, and resistless
corps
of light cavalry, than a few that were in the continental service at the time of which we write.
The victorious Americans pressed the retreating Germans until they had driven them under the protection of the fire of the infantry; and feeling themselves, in the privacy of the lawn, relieved from any immediate danger, the predatory warriors yielded to a temptation that few of the
corps
were ever known to resist - opportunity and horseflesh.
"And one as little dreaded by the 60th, as any
corps
who wear the royal livery," cried Henry Wharton, fiercely.
"He is the beneficent spirit of the corps, equally beloved by us all; so mild, so equal, so just, so generous, with the meekness of a lamb and the fondness of a dove - it is only in the hour of battle that Singleton is a lion."
The last lagging trooper of the
corps
had already disappeared behind the northern hill, and the major unwillingly turned his horse in the same direction.
The dragoons lingered on the shore till the last moment, and then they reluctantly commenced their own retreat back to the main body of the
corps.
"She would do honor to the corps," replied the lieutenant, with some warmth.
"You are well known to the corps."
These rude times must abridge ceremony; besides, you may remember the old gentleman professed a kinsman's regard for the
corps.
"And if he should come, won't a bullet silence a dragoon from the South as well as from old England?""Aye, but I don't choose a hornet's nest about my ears; rase the skin of one of that corps, and you will never see another peaceable night's foraging again."
Occasionally he would pay a visit to the wounded Englishman, who, being more hurt in the spirit than in the flesh, tolerated the interruptions with a very ill grace; and once, for an instant, he ventured to steal softly to the bed of his obstinate comrade, and was near succeeding in obtaining a touch of his pulse, when a terrible oath, sworn by the trooper in a dream, startled the prudent surgeon, and warned him of a trite saying in the corps, "that Captain Lawton always slept with one eye open."
The character of this youth, it has already been shown, endeared him in a peculiar manner to every officer in the
corps.
The rough usage the
corps
often received in its daring attacks had brought each of its officers, in succession, under the temporary keeping of the surgeon.
Frances fixed her laughing eyes on her sister; but forbearing to speak, the other readily construed their expression, and hastily added, "But I forget he is one of your renowned
corps
of Virginians, and must be spoken of reverently."
The uniform of his
corps
was always a passport to the best tables, and this, though somewhat tarnished by faithful service and unceremonious usage, was properly brushed and decked out for the occasion.
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