How To Use Gendarme In A Sentence

  • The gendarmery numbers about 4000 men, or 1 to 825 of the inhabitants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • During a visit to the Gendarmerie Headquarters, a man whose face was maculated with blood, both hands tied in the back, was seen being marched across the base escorted by two Gendarmes. Cambodia: UN Memorandum re Executions
  • The mounted gendarmery, too, came up and turned against them. The Life of Marie Antoinette
  • Criminals are usually delivered to the police or the gendarmerie, a military police with a reputation of an uncorrupted elite force.
  • But some early baseball caps sat up, blocky, like what tops the crowns of French gendarmes.
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  • One of the gendarmes stumbled dizzily and dropped his rifle.
  • We got to talk about being stopped by the gendarmerie for speeding. Times, Sunday Times
  • There were two gendarmes on bicycles who were liaison agents and a small floating population of chauffeurs and maquisards undertaking various duties.
  • Officials do not deny that thousands of Indian soldiers and gendarmery are stationed in the state to help preserve an outward calm. Muslim and Hindu
  • The gendarmes came and he finally agreed to stay. Times, Sunday Times
  • Surprisingly, Prussia had the fewest gendarmes per head of population of any German state in 1848: in that year Berlin had only 120 gendarmes and 40 city police for a population of 400,000.
  • In a characteristic passage in China Shakes the World he describes a man of peasant origin who had gone to middle school and then to a course for training Chiang Kai-shek's gendarmerie .
  • Since they operate from post-office ‘drop’ boxes, the crooks simply empty the boxes regularly, and are on their way before local gendarmes can get their acts together.
  • However, in areas under a state of emergency or martial law, the gendarmerie functions under the military.
  • Generous he was, and gentle, yet I minded that he had bitten off the nose of Severin, the French gendarme, when the _namu_ had made him mad. White Shadows in the South Seas
  • The usher , accompanied by a gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance , introduced the convict Brevet.
  • In times of national crisis the gendarmerie can be used to reinforce the army.
  • 'The only sign of their presence is a couple of gendarmes outside the gates. Times, Sunday Times
  • Under military agreements signed with eleven of the thirteen former colonies, armies and gendarmeries about 6,000 strong in each state were built up and trained by the French.
  • Land, sea, and air units are represented as well as the gendarmerie.
  • Next day little boys were scraping the village over like fowls in a farmyard, getting a chip 'ere an' a shaving there, an 'making themselves such a nuisance that there was talk of calling the gendarmerie out. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20
  • Pero ¡cuál fué nuestro asombro al ver que los gendarmes, los hombres del pueblo, las mujeres, los niños ..., ¡todo Novelas Cortas
  • The legal and judicial systems of Martinique are those of France, as are the police force and gendarmerie.
  • A week of violence, triggered by the shooting in custody of a student and fanned by local hatred of the gendarmerie, has left at least 40 people dead, according to medical sources and residents.
  • En accusant Goldman Sachs de fraude, le gendarme de la Bourse américain fait vaciller la banque phare de WN.com - Articles related to Taxer les riches pour financer la sant?, l'erreur de Barack Obama
  • The first morning, he and several hundred other students in the freshman class were greatly surprised when the dean of the school got up and announced that they were to be trained as gendarmes .
  • There are several police forces, including internal security police, gendarmes, and military police.
  • Francis I. had the advantage in artillery and in heavy cavalry, called at that time the gendarmerie, that is to say, the corps of men-at-arms in heavy armor with their servants; but his troops were inferior in effectives to the Imperialists, and Charles V. 's two generals, Bourbon and Pescara, were, as men of war, far superior to A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4
  • What he's sent is Diane, a street gamine two jumps ahead of the gendarmes.
  • Since there is no mass disturbance, there is no need of a more serious presence of the gendarmerie forces.
  • The gendarmerie, police, and army eliminated many brigand bands.
  • He called the gendarmerie the equivalent of 10 times a day, seven days a week, which suggests something abnormal going on," said plaintiff attorney Orhan Kemal Cengiz. Undefined
  • We need to bring in the international community, like international police, gendarmerie, carabinieri, to help us.
  • So they were arrested and brought to the gendarmerie for their own protection. Times, Sunday Times
  • Handout/Gendarmeria/Reuters Members of the Argentine border police Gendarmeria prevented drivers from crossing the border between Argentina and Chile at the Paso Cardenal Samore Sunday. Volcano Erupts in Chile
  • The state also increased the budget for the military, police and gendarmerie at that time.
  • The second man, speaking with a north-eastern accent, said: "The gendarmes did a fantastic job."
  • Kılıç calling the gendarmerie first after his release by the PKK instead of the police has led to further suspicion about his links to the clandestine organization. TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News
  • There are municipal and national police as well as gendarmeries in each commune.
  • He was found by a gendarmerie sniffer dog the next morning. Times, Sunday Times
  • Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
  • What is necessary now is to train and equip more Iraqi security forces, and we have proposed to train Iraqi gendarmerie, that is, military force. CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2004
  • At first, the French tried to keep the FLNC and the assorted desperadoes of the maquis under control by deploying their police forces and gendarmerie to enforce law and order.
  • IRCGN (Institut de recherche criminelle de la gendarmerie nationale), Europol, Rosny-sous-Bois (Cedex) DoJ raids p2p operators
  • The Gendarmerie (local constabulary trained and officered by Marines), supported by the Marine brigade, tracked down and killed Peralte and Batraville.
  • It was a calculated response to the fears of an oppressive gendarmerie which had motivated so much resistance to the force.
  • This legitimation also drew on the attachment of hundreds of thousands of rural people to whom the state offered employment, depending on social background, as administrators, teachers, gendarmes, road and rail workers.
  • The truth simply is that if some remedy be not soon found for the situation created by these people, who are as stupid as they are mischievous, in a few years we shall be obliged either to decuple the gendarmerie, or to allow every citizen to go about armed with a revolver, in order to protect himself against our much too liberally emancipated young scolos! ' France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
  • We think this kid will indeed be serving his country in uniform, but it won't be the natty blue of the gendarmerie.
  • The operation was carried out by the gendarmerie, which is equipped by the army.
  • We must make room for one more extract, in which he figures in conjunction with his friend the sbirro or gendarme, who before being invested with a uniform, and armed with carbine, pistols, and sabre, has frequently been a lazzarone himself, and usually preserves the instincts and tastes of his former station. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
  • The police obviously marked me down as a criminal because next time I was at a French auction I was surrounded by gun-toting gendarmes who arrested me again.
  • We need to bring in the international community, like international police, gendarmerie, carabinieri, to help us.
  • The charge d'affaires requested that extra gendarmes be posted outside the embassy.
  • The men were interned after barely escaping a full-dress skirmish with the local gendarmes.
  • Gendarmes turn out instantly even for minor crimes. Times, Sunday Times
  • You can expostulate with a London bobbie, you can argue with a Paris gendarme, you can on occasion reason mildly with a New York policeman, but not with an Italian carbineer. Italy at War and the Allies in the West
  • The Interior Ministry will now control both the police and the gendarmerie.
  • Starting in the summer of 1989, several gendarmes publicized their grievances in anonymous letters to the press.
  • Blue as the gendarmerie were the waves of the sea, Good Taste Is the Worst Vice : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
  • The gendarme shouted in French, ‘Drop your weapons!’
  • When the referee sent both players off they promptly had a brawl in the tunnel, which required the intervention of the local gendarmerie.
  • “Send down to the village for the maire and some gendarmes; and tell your people to make ready.” The Paris Sketch Book
  • Napoleon brought opposition to conscription under control, instituting the gendarmerie and mobile columns of soldiers to track down draft-dodgers and deserters in the countryside.
  • The survivors will be questioned by gendarmes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Efectivamente: no bien salimos del café, percibimos allá, (p47) en la Plaza (que como os he dicho estaba cerca), una empolvada silla de posta, parada delante de una casa de vulgar apariencia y custodiada por dos gendarmes de caballería, cuyos desnudos sables brillaban que era un contento [47-1] .... Novelas Cortas
  • Turkish garrison attacked, but was heavily defeated at Valtetzi by the tactical skill of Theodore Kolokotrónis the 'klepht', who had become experienced in guerrilla warfare through his alternate professions of brigand and gendarme -- a career that had increased its possibilities as the Ottoman system decayed. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
  • It was also common to see the jeeps of the island's French gendarmes (military police) speeding by on the road loaded down with confiscated marijuana plants in the back.
  • The trussed, recumbent gendarme had been freed and carried away, still half-conscious. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
  • Anticipating trouble, in June the French Government dispatched 300 gendarmes to Tahiti to ensure that law and order were maintained.
  • Another car bomb exploded near a gendarme patrol, leaving 6 policemen dead and 45 persons wounded.
  • France, in all parts of the Empire, the lassitude was extreme and the misery increasing, there was no commerce, with dearth pronounced in twenty provinces, sedition of the hungry had broken out in Normandy, the gendarmes pursuing the "refractories" everywhere, and blood was shed in all thirty departments. Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812
  • The Swiss Guard of about a thousand men were all trustworthy; and there was also a small body of heavy cavalry of the gendarmery who had proved true enough to resist all the seductions of the conspirators. The Life of Marie Antoinette
  • The U.S., which occupied Haiti for the next 19 years, disbanded the army and created a replacement called the gendarmerie or "garde," which fought alongside the Marines against Haitian guerrillas who opposed the U.S. presence. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
  • He detested three things: a Jesuit, a gendarme, and a claqueur at a theatre. The Paris Sketch Book
  • (Hillaire Belloc noted once that, while Jacobite songs were often heard in English homes, he had been warned by the gendarmerie for intoning “Vexilla regis” on a beach in Brittany.) History
  • The police obviously marked me down as a criminal because next time I was at a French auction I was surrounded by gun-toting gendarmes who arrested me again.
  • Civic events were enlivened by military parades and bands, while civil disorder was suppressed by troops acting in support of the gendarmerie, which was itself a branch of the armed forces.
  • The gentry gritted their teeth and stoically endured the offense, hands hovering over their cell phones ready to summon the gendarmes should the intruder decide to prolong his incursion long enough to constitute a public nuisance.
  • The police and the French gendarmerie help the European judges who dispense justice in the penal system and constitute the court of appeals for the tribunals of Islamic judges (cadis).
  • A half squadron of gendarmes has been stationed in Maripasoula, their presence supposedly acting as a deterrent.
  • Crime management is now provided by repressive police forces in the cities and towns and a gendarmerie in the countryside and a national guard in remote areas.
  • We think this kid will indeed be serving his country in uniform, but it won't be the natty blue of the gendarmerie.
  • One description of his arrival in Elisabethville said he had been severely beaten by Katangese gendarmerie. NYT > Home Page
  • We've been out of contact with the world, while the rain's poured down, but fortunately the gendarmerie have come and sorted us out.
  • With more than 20 world leaders arriving in Normandy at a time of high terror threat, France deployed fighter jets, surface-to-air missiles and 15,000 gendarmes and soldiers for security.
  • We got to talk about being stopped by the gendarmerie for speeding. Times, Sunday Times
  • Similar media gendarmes are on patrol over the airwaves.
  • Pale French gendarmes, seemingly plucked straight from Paris point duty, look lost directing the coconut trees.
  • Gendarmes are on high alert and farmers are installing padlocks and security cameras in their chicken runs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thereupon, at the suggestion of Mme. Morestal, who had taken up the second receiver, she asked to be put on to the gendarmery. The Frontier
  • So they were arrested and brought to the gendarmerie for their own protection. Times, Sunday Times
  • They have become more like the French gendarmerie - a pseudo-paramilitary force that lives a barrack-style existence, sealed off from the public and rarely interacting with those it is supposed to serve.
  • I unclasped the shagreen case; the sergent-de-ville and the gendarme stole up and looked over my shoulder; the garçon drew near with round eyes; the little woman peeped across; the merchant, with tears streaming over his face, gazed as if it had been a loadstone; finally, I looked myself. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
  • A national police force oversees urban areas, and a gendarmerie attends to rural peacekeeping.
  • We wouldn't have been surprised to get a visit from the local gendarme about suspicious behaviour in the area.
  • I try to memorise this argument in case I meet a gendarme during my subsequent meandering around the lanes.
  • He was found by a gendarmerie sniffer dog the next morning. Times, Sunday Times
  • The second man, speaking with a north-eastern accent, said: "The gendarmes did a fantastic job."
  • In France in May 1968, the gendarmerie and the police used water cannon, tear gas and truncheons to put down three-week-long Sorbonne riots, injuring nearly 400 persons.
  • On learning of the place of confinement of the woman who had been arrested, he presented himself at the doors, and passed so well for a smart young officer of gendarmery that the sentry saluted and sprang to attention. Dead Souls
  • The gendarmerie is the elite paramilitary force of the Congo. In the Shadow of Freedom
  • A gendarme a pied was the only person near me, and I asked him, if he could explain the reason of the movement. A Residence in France
  • Diplomats explained that several EU countries were expected to send "gendarmerie" - type effectives, because such forces are most suited to quick deployment. EurActiv.com
  • There were three gendarmes in plain clothes, a little pumped up with the adrenaline of the occasion.
  • A couple of hours north is the tiny state of Pondicherry, a French territory until 1950, complete with a Hôtel de Ville, gendarmes in red kepis, and croissants for breakfast.
  • Two gendarmes swooped down on her and threw her out. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
  • There are municipal and national police as well as gendarmeries in each commune.
  • Pas pour moi la gendarmerie, j'ai une jambe d'un centimetre plus courte que l'autre, mes rotules sont plus flottantes que mes cotes, mes ligament croisés, dechirés tout ce que vous voulez, mon entorse chronique a la cheville droite a cause d'un hopital qui vous soigne une fracture avec une bande velcro et de la pommade, ma narco, ma scoliose, mes problemes de vue, mon oreille sourde. Pinku-tk Diary Entry
  • Having a short, light, accurate little carbine chambered for the same cartridge and possibly using the same magazine as your service pistol must have been comforting to the local gendarmerie.
  • Idly checking the state of debate among Eurosceptics, I was wryly amused to discover that the latest bogeyman is the European Gendarmerie Force, or EGF. April Books 1) The Emperor's Babe, by Bernardine Evaristo
  • a gendarme is 'poulet', the word for chicken in French. Euronews
  • On the other side, the land army, army intelligence units, and the corps of gendarmes oppose such reforms, which they find excessively constraining.
  • There were three gendarmes in plain clothes, a little pumped up with the adrenaline of the occasion.
  • Fully aware that he was regularly and systematically deceived by the ordinary officials, he formed a body of well-paid officers, called the gendarmerie, who were scattered over the country, and ordered to report directly to his Majesty whatever seemed to them worthy of attention. Russia
  • Finally one of the internee chairmen managed to sneak out to issue a protest with the high gendarme officers across town.
  • If Mother Mastiff had retained enough presence of mind to remember that the Drallarian gendarmery occasionally employed the services of tracking animals-for the first time hope crowded despair from Flinx's thoughts. For Love of Mother-Not
  • (Hillaire Belloc noted once that, while Jacobite songs were often heard in English homes, he had been warned by the gendarmerie for intoning “Vexilla regis” on a beach in Brittany.) History
  • Ils étaient pour la plupart de la gendarmerie, qu'une valeur malheureuse et une armure pesante arrêtaient dans un lieu où l'un et l'autre leur étaient inutiles. Gibbon

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