gendarmerie

How To Use gendarmerie In A Sentence

• So they were arrested and brought to the gendarmerie for their own protection. Times, Sunday Times
• We need to bring in the international community, like international police, gendarmerie, carabinieri, to help us.
• The Interior Ministry will now control both the police and the gendarmerie.
• Blue as the gendarmerie were the waves of the sea, Good Taste Is the Worst Vice : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
• When the referee sent both players off they promptly had a brawl in the tunnel, which required the intervention of the local gendarmerie.
• 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 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
• (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
• 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 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).