Echelon Sentence Examples

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  • Army (Prince Frederick Charles) moved off in echelon from left to right, the I.

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  • Shoe shiners are still common there, forming a lower echelon in the economy.

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  • But for all that the magic still bathes its heady glow across the land and our world is echelon, Atlantis Echelon.

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  • Double furrow or multiple ploughs are a combination of two or more ploughs arranged in echelon so as to plough two or more furrows.

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  • For the study of Zeeman effects (see Magneto-Optics) the echelon seems specially adapted, while the great pliability of 'Fabry and Perot's methods, allowing a clear interpretation of results, is likely to secure them permanently an established place in measurements of precision.

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  • While television personality and actor salaries have always been inflated, there are some stars on TV who certainly rise to the upper echelon of paychecks.

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  • Leaving, however, the larger question of the connexion between the great mountain ranges of Europe and Asia, we find that the Alps are formed of a series of wrinkles or folds, one behind another, frequently arranged en echelon.

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  • The second echelon was the destruction of capitalism through by their own money through drugs " .

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  • The RCC will be collocated with the operations center of the command echelon to which it has been assigned.

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  • It also provides information on manpower i.e. the number of direct maintenance man-hours required by repair site and repair echelon.

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  • While intradermal pigmentation does not sit at the top of pain echelon, it certainly can be uncomfortable for some.

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  • Third Echelon calls Sam Fisher back to duty in this second installment of Splinter Cell for XBOX.

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  • The French have always held a rarified position in the world of lingerie design, and French satin knickers are high on the echelon of fine pieces of underwear.

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  • The echelon and interferometer serve only a limited purpose, but must be called into action when the detailed structure of lines is to be examined.

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  • Hence it consists (1) partly of ranges, mostly snow-capped, which stretch from south-west to north-east, and which in several cases terminate en echelon on the verge of the desert, and (2) partly of ranges which strike away from the above at various angles, but in a predominantly north-western direction.

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  • Lee's six divisions formed an echelon.

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  • On the 27th the Bulgarian wheel began, but instead of its being carried out on a fixed pivot, the pivot itself was allowed to advance eastward, so that, instead of presenting a united line, the Bulgarians formed a loose echelon, left in advance, which led to successive instead of simultaneous engagements.

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  • The country immediately south of the Terskei Ala-tau consists " of broad, shallow basins running east and west in en echelon pattern, and lying at 10,000 ft.

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  • The military posts were drawn up in echelon along the frontier of the desert, especially along the southern slopes of the Aures, as far as Ad Majores (Besseriani), and on the Tripolitan frontier as far as Cydamus (Ghadames), forming an immense arc extending from Cyrenaica to Mauretania.

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  • Michelson's ingenious echelon grating constitutes a realization in an unexpected manner of what was thought to be impracticable.

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  • In the United States and elsewhere engines drawing behind them a number of ploughs, arranged in echelon and taking perhaps The sub-soil plough has the beam and body but not the mould-board of an ordinary plough.

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  • Delivered in three echelons, these final attacks were repulsed, the first echelon by Colin Halkett's British Brigade, a Dutch-Belgian battery, and a brigade of Chasse's Dutch-Belgian division; the second and third echelons by the Guards, the 52nd, and the Royal Artillery.

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  • One of the most interesting examples is that furnished by the green mercury line, which when examined by a powerful echelon spectroscope splits up into a number of constituents which have been examined by several investigators.

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