fifth column in English

noun
1
a group within a country at war who are sympathetic to or working for its enemies.
While thus ‘raising public awareness,’ Congress was being lobbied for legislation to confront the threat from this enemy within: the fifth column in the ivory tower.

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1. on page 10, Standard ‘EN 568:2015, Mountaineering equipment — Ice anchors — Safety requirements and test methods’, fifth column:

2. The missionaries were seen as a fifth column, an advance guard of the West and its subjugation of the whole of China.

3. The shift given in the fifth column of this table represents the amplitude of a back and forth motion applied to the strap

4. The shift given in the fifth column of this table represents the amplitude of a back and forth motion applied to the strap.

5. The shift given in the fifth column of this table represents the amplitude of a back-and-forth motion applied to the strap.

6. on page 11, Standard ‘EN 958:2017, Mountaineering equipment — Energy absorbing systems for use in klettersteig (via ferrata) climbing — Safety requirements and test methods’, fifth column:

7. Reports of the presumed actions of a Fifth Column in Scandinavia caused widespread fears that the Netherlands too had been infiltrated by German agents assisted by traitors.

8. Rosenstein ‘Scope’ Memo Confirms Baselessness of Trump–Russia Probe Oh, the Russia Probe had a basis - Deep State sedition and the overthrow of a constitutionally elected president, using lies and fake news in a criminal conspiracy with the fifth-column leftist media.

9. Then, too, because of false rumors in which we were described as “a dangerous Fifth Column,” we were often shadowed and accosted in the streets by detectives; and one of the “pioneer” homes was even ransacked from top to bottom at one o’clock in the morning; but naturally no evidence of any subversive activity could be found.