detachments in English

noun
1
the state of being objective or aloof.
he felt a sense of detachment from what was going on
2
a group of troops, aircraft, or ships sent away on a separate mission.
a detachment of Marines
3
the action or process of detaching; separation.
structural problems resulted in cracking and detachment of the wall

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1. Our detachments took turns to harass them.

2. You are to repulse an attack of terrorist detachments at each level.

3. Detachments of Congolese soldiers also served in the Middle East and Burma.

4. Nondestructive acoustic method and device, for the determination of detachments of mural paintings

5. Two further detachments of commandos blew up the PFLP's headquarters in Beirut and a Fatah explosives plant.

6. It said villagers were forming detachments, many of them equipped with automatic rifles and home-made explosives.

7. Allied commanders moved some of the delayed detachments of the fourth column into this bitter struggle.

8. It is designed for heavy weapons platoons personnel and reconnaissance detachments, special anti-terrorist and police troops.

9. It provides a physical indicator of the separation zones with a novel technique for revealing detachments via acoustic imageries.

10. Conclusions: Confocal laser scanning tomography allows analysis of 3D configurations and a quantitative measurement of RPE detachments in AMD.

11. We had now spent three weeks at Aubagne and had seen detachments move off to Castelnaudary, and numerous people rejected.

12. The LPLAAF operates from two main bases - Vientiane and Phonsavanh - with another three bases supported by detachments from the main units.

13. The regiment was immediately devided into detachments and sent to the Islands of Cebu, Panay, Bonol, and Negros for station.

14. In 1207, the Oirat prince Quduqa-Beki led Mongol detachments under Jochi to a tributary of the Kaa-Khem river.

15. Eye floaters (also known as Posterior vitreous detachments, PVD) are little “Cobwebs” or specks that float about in your field of vision

16. Thereafter, the trained Cambodian army detachments have undertaken de-mining operations in Sudan under the aegis of UNMIS, starting from mid-2007.

17. Many small detachments were sent out to the bridges, the three railway stations nearby, and areas around the Nieuwe Maas where landings had been reported.

18. During the campaign leading up to the Battle of Valcour Island, Capt. Christopher Carleton served on his uncle's staff and in command of detachments of Indian allies.

19. Nondestructive acoustic method for the detection of detachments in fresco paintings and generally in mural paintings, which uses as detachment physical indicator, the acoustic absorption coefficient.

20. Construction work proceeded under absolute secrecy; detachments of soldiers were tasked with guarding the shipyard itself, as well as contractors that supplied building materials, such as Krupp.

21. By means of an image processing of the so obtained values, bidimensional and tridimensional acoustic images are formed for representing the detachments or separation zones of the painting.

22. The parameters considered were area, volume, maximal height and 3D configuration of the RPE detachments. The tomographic data were analyzed and correlated with the fluorescein angiographic findings.

23. By mid-November Greek naval detachments had seized the islands of Imbros, Thasos, Agios Efstratios, Samothrace, Psara and Ikaria, while landings were undertaken on the larger islands of Lesbos and Chios only on 21 and 27 November respectively.

24. The special purpose forces of the Armed Forces of the RF included fourteen land brigades, two naval brigades and a number of separate detachments and companies, operating under the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and collectively known as Spetsnaz GRU.

25. Contemplation is therefore the end of action" and "Such is the life of the divinity and of divine and blessed men: detachments from all things here below, scorn of all earthly pleasures, the flight of the lone to the Alone." Christian Contemplation

26. Age, gender, best-corrected visual acuity at the first and last visit, refraction, ocular disease in both eyes and observationtime were recorded After a mean follow-up of 8.5 years, 42 of 79 patients (53.4%) showed vision-threatening abnormalities in their fellow eyes: among them, 9 patients (11.4%) had PVR, 13 (16%) simple retinal detachments and 14 (17.3%) retinal breaks.