How To Use Laager In A Sentence
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The Mediterranean was sighted for the first time and we laagered on the edge of the Sinai desert.
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They got careless about how they set up, and Sergeant Chavez was inside the laager before they knew about it.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
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What is instead being dangled in front of Ulster's Unionists is a retreat into the laager.
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He has to walk, trot, canter, gallop, and "tripple" all around the laager several times, amidst the badinage and laughter of the burghers, and he gets enough "chaff" during the journey to last the biggest horse in England a lifetime.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
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The commando laagered on the ridge, from which they ventured down the Opathe Gorge on 27 December 1838 to raid livestock.
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Chelmsford deliberately did not entrench or laager, determined to show that his troops could face Zulus in the open.
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We can retreat to our national laagers, which would be an economic disaster, or we can build an interdependent world that works.
Globalisation can work, but only with a unified international plan | Will Hutton
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She said the DP lacked the courage to form a mainstream alliance with the NP, but would consider a "white laager alliance with the far right, based on as Tony Leon put it, the 'gatvol' phenomenon rather than principled politics".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Here we heard that Moselikatse was advancing to make an end of us, so we made our laager as strong as we could, lashing the disselboom of each waggon beneath the framework of that before it and filling the spaces beneath and between with the crowns and boughs of sharp-thorned mimosa trees, which we tied to the trek tows and brake chains so that they could not be torn away.
Swallow: a tale of the great trek
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The second notion emphasises the traits that split America into hostile ethnic laagers and deny its essential multiculturalism.
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And while a successful Games would make it seem invincible , one beset by protests and complaints might also serve only to unite party and people in a defensive laager .
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His armies were infantry and dragoon based, using wagon laagers mounted with light cannons to protect against cavalry charges.
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Highlanders, had moved out from Wittekopslaager about 5 A.M., breakfastless, because it was thought that on reaching the river, which was but a short march of five miles off, there would be ample time for a meal.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
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So when there's talk of a fourth commercial TV network, as we have now, the wagons are turned, the laager is formed and the pre-emptive arrows fired in the general direction of the intruders.
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The Apaches danced around the laager, sideslipping as the gunners triggered off their missiles.
The Bear and the Dragon
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But by dusk both Divisions had crossed, and laagered that night 2 miles north of the Amatikulu.
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In fact, the reason the Dow and the S&P 500 have taken so long to get back up here is to make up for all the laagers in there.
CNN Transcript May 31, 2007
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Here in the dark the squadron laagered and passed an uncomfortable night constantly on the alert in expectation of a German counter attack.
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Every morning my brother and I had our horses fetched from the grazing-ground and rode out to visit neighbouring camps and laagers, eager to see all that we could.
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He ordered the wagons to be inspanned, but left where they were, and refused requests to allow them to be laagered.
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Having pitched his laager, the commander sends out his scouts; some amble off on horseback at a pace they call a "tripple" -- a gait which all the Boers educate their nags to adopt.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
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The rest of the British movement was successfully carried out, the enemy retiring before them; but although all the troops were out, except those absolutely needed for garrisoning the works, the enemy's field bases -- "laagers" -- could not be reached.
Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900
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We could see the town of Colesberg (President Kruger's birthplace), and all the Boer laagers around it.
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Johannesburg is rapidly being surrounded by a laager of Eurotrash casinos.
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What I said was that in this day and age, it is ridiculous to think that we can all live in our racially exclusive laagers.
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Advances in transportation and communications technology is rendering obsolete the idea that we can all wall ourselves off into racially exclusive laagers.
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Before this weary conflict came to a close, nearly every Boer family was gathered in from the perils and privations of the war-wasted veldt; and so, while nearly 30,000 burghers were detained as prisoners of war at various points across the sea, their wives and children, to the number of over 100,000, were tenderly cared for in English laagers all along the line of rails or close to conveniently situated towns.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
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They got careless about how they set up, and Sergeant Chavez was inside the laager before they knew about it.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
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These modern-day laagers nurture the desire of their mainly white inhabitants to cut themselves off from South Africa and practice local "own affairs".
ANC Today
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The trekkers then rounded up all the cattle in sight and returned triumphantly to their laagers.
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They had captured the Boer laagers and set their ammunition dump alight.
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He has returned to the laager, and chosen to travel the conservative route.
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It was simply impossible to observe, even though we laagered several vehicles to shield us from the wind.
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In our ever shrinking world where journeys that once took days or weeks now takes hours, where we can communicate with people virtually anywhere in the world via e-mail or facsimile, the idea that we should all fortify ourselves in our racially exclusive laagers is ridiculous.
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