There was the same loosening of the bonds of a common organization, the same tendency to separate into local units shut up to interest in themselves alone.
In some cases, however, this process of breaking up the state into smaller unitswent no further.
But during the third and fourth years of the war nearly all of the French artillery units being on the front, all subsequent drafts of French artillerymen received their training under actual war conditions.
It signalised the full development of our forces from small emergency units that had reached the front less than a year before, to the now powerful group of armies, fighting under their own flag, their own generals, and their own staffs.
So sweeping was the advance that in some places small isolated units of our men found themselves with Germans both before and behind them.
In the dense woods the Germans showed their mastery of machine gun manipulation and the method of infiltration by which they would place strong units in our rear and pour in a deadly fire.
Units of the 3rd United States Regular Division and the 28th U.
They suffered serious losses from the Allied artillery which also destroyed some of their pontoons across the river, but in spite of this, the Germans succeeded in re-enforcing the units on the south bank to the strength of about a battalion.
French pursuit, bombing and reconnaissance units, and British and Italian bombing unitsdivided with our own air service the control of the air, and contributed materially to the successes of the operation.
Anxious American staff officers consulted their wrist watches frequently in evidence of the concern they felt as to whether the various moving units were reaching designated points upon the scheduled minute.
Hard-fighting French divisions and some units of the British Fifth Army, which had been badly hit in Picardy in March, made an orderly withdrawal southward.
American ambulance units did heroic work in the removal of the wounded.
Great rivalry existed between the New York regiment and the Alabama regiment, both of which happened to be units of the same brigade.
Our first troops to reach France were associated in smallunits with the French.
The American units which took part in this bitter fighting that had continued without a day's cessation since July 18th, were mentioned specifically in an order issued on August 27th by General Pershing.
For example, in phosphorus pentachloride the five units of affinity possessed by the phosphorus atom are satisfied by the five monad atoms of chlorine, but in the trichloride two are disengaged, and, it may be supposed, satisfy each other.
The number of units of affinity active in the case of any particular element is largely dependent, however, upon the nature of the element or elements with which it is associated.
Indeed, it appears probable that with few exceptions the elements are all compounds of similar atoms united together by one or more units of affinity, according to their valencies.
The troops were much refreshed by this return to civilization, and units had leisure to absorb their drafts.
Many units had to deplore the loss of the very cream of their officers, N.
The general method of instruction in vogue was the attachment of formations and units to those next larger; that is, a battalion to an infantry brigade, a company to a battalion, a battery to a brigade of artillery.
Numerous recruiting marches were also carried out, which provided further training in marching and march-discipline, and at the same time exhibited detachments of the units from the countryside to the remotest villages in their area.
Many units had bought suckling pigs from the farmers, and fattened them in anticipation of the event; none had failed to provide some luxuries.
Reserves, tired units withdrawn for a short rest, are kept constantly on the strain, ever wondering when their turn is coming, compelled hurriedly to shift position when it does.
Before printing, copies of the list were submitted to representatives of units for corrections and additions.
A few headquarters purchased cows, and many units pigs and chickens.
The troops working upon these defences were relieved periodically, the other formations and units carrying out training.
Fine as were the fighting qualities of the formations and units that took part in it, the most remarkable aspects which stand out when we look back upon it are the perfection of its organization and of the liaison between all arms.
The Battle Zone likewise consisted of two main lines of defence, organized internally with counter-attack units and wired-in redoubts.
Such procedure was all very well for formed units under their own leaders; it was impossible to make it understood by scattered details of men of a dozen units, harassed and strained by four days' fighting.
Units were obliged to march miles out of their courses, bringing the vehicles through drifts in relays with double teams, trace horses being sent back for a second batch when the first was upon firmer ground.
There is hardly a diary of the formations and units of the 36th Division in which is not expressed high appreciation of the arrangements made by the French, and of the kindness with which advance parties were treated by them.
The whole of that mass of struggling competitive units of direction had now been concentrated in the house in which we were talking.
Infantry Units will send officers to observe the effect of the Turkish Mountain Batteries and Austrian shells on the enemy's firing line.
While on Gallipoli the Commander of the 8th Corps, General Sir Francis Davis, had organised a Football Tournament for teams representing all units in the corps.
It is probable that units moving along the shore may be exposed to the fire of enemy ships.
No other units (except those detailed for the purpose) are to fire on enemy aircraft, and machine-gun and infantry fire is not to be employed against aeroplanes flying very high.
Again, with so many units carrying out almost independent actions on a dark night, a very small error in the time table or routes of the various battalions might have led to disaster.
Some units lost quite a number of men in this way.
Organisation up till this point had been perfect, but the naval officers did not seem to care about keeping units together, the one object being to get everyone off and load up the waiting transports as quickly as possible.
In his search for them he came upon a small trench held by a mixed party of units of the 155th Brigade.
To prevent confusion among the units on the march, the intervals by day must be increased to 100 metres.
For two days after the battle all units were kept busy gathering up the arms, equipment and loose ammunition with which the terrain was littered, as well as maintaining the defence of the captured positions.
Other British Units in Danger This was a severe menace to their comrades at Locre and southward, because both their flanks were threatened.
According to a dispatch, the new ultimatum, too, dated May 10, had a bearing on the prisoner question, but in addition demanded complete cessation of arming troops and the disbandment of units already formed.
One of the British units today took prisoners from ten different regiments.
Send out orders for all available Security units to be unified under your immediate command.
Unless I am completely wrong, Sherikov has only a half-dozen air units and no surface cars.
If so, he is one of the constituentunits of an unknown and vaster personality who is composed of Gods, as our God is composed of all the living forms on earth, and as all those living forms are composed of cells.
And otherunits were not so fortunate in that respect.
Here there was a delay of several hours before guides arrived to lead the various units to their stations.
I strongly suspect that the British infantry units were still suffering from their tremendous exertions in 1916; and they certainly had not the confident assurance of victory which inspired the terrible sacrifices on the Somme.
If we could tell how many units of utility it contained we could infer the rate of exchange for other things.
Such examples as existed of even semi-federal union were very loose in structure, and the selfishness of the component units was the predominant feature.
Every sensation," says Professor James, "presents itself as an indivisible unit; and it is quite impossible to read any clear meaning into the notion that they are masses of units combined.
The ordinary mind, schooled to measure space by the tiny stretches of a pygmy planet, cannot grasp the import of such distances; yet these are mere units of measure compared with the vast stretches of sidereal space.
But there is a general social tendency, seemingly irrepressible, operating steadily from the beginning of history, for the political units to be larger and ever larger.
The discussion brings up what seems to be a law of human activities, that as the ages run and as men develop their minds they combine in larger and larger units for carrying on the particular thing they are interested in.
Almost all units of the Brigade seemed to be trying to relieve or support each other, and the front line itself was in quite a ferment, nobody actually knowing what the enemy had done, was doing, or was expected to do.
Impatient of camouflage, he learnt with difficulty the language of code-names under which it was sought to disguise our units to the enemy.
We found the area already overstocked with troops; indeed Chapelle Boom itself, though assigned to us, was the headquarters of not less than two units of the 183rd Infantry Brigade.
Units were apt to be judged by the promptness and accuracy of their returns, and Cuthbert, who for longer than anyone was Adjutant of the Battalion, won a deserved reputation in this respect.
I should hesitate to say of General White that he 'used' others, but his prudent selection of subordinates ensured that all units in his Brigade were well commanded.
As units of local government the towns must be considered as originally placed on the same legal basis as the villages, viz.
This legal capacity rendered them liable to military service as heavy-armed fighting men, and as such they were enrolled in the military units called centuriae.
Hence the permutation problem is equivalent to that of placing n units in the compartments of a square lattice of order n in such manner that each row and each column contains a single unit.
The most common units used were: the Penny, abbreviated: d.
The problem required that we should find five numbers higher than 36 the units of which may be displayed so as to form a square, a triangle, two triangles, and three triangles, using the complete number in every one of the four cases.
A gland is a collection of cells (those viscous globules which are the units of all tissues and organs).
Closed spherules lined by a single layer of cells enclosing a gelatinous material known as colloid, which stains deeply with acid dyes, comprise the units of its architecture.
In addition to solitary unicellular organisms, we know of others living in colonies of which the constituent units or cells (each of them equivalent to a unicellular organism) are morphologically and physiologically identical.
The first multicellular organism was probably a cluster of similar cells, but these units soon lost their original homogeneity.
Other units of the division carried out what would be termed minor operations (which are anything but minor operations to the people concerned), but the 7th escaped any such work.
Friends met friends, and opportunities for these meetings were further afforded by the fact that most units relieved their own 2nd line battalions.
It is telling no secret now to say that many of the units in the British navy had duplicates constructed out of old vessels.
How long until they can have a thousandunits of fuel produced?
The first installment will be one thousand units of fuel, to be produced with the greatest speed possible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "units" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: firepower; fitting; forces; hands; men; personnel; troops; unit
