How To Use Maquis In A Sentence
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At the drop area the Maquis failed to flash their reception lights and caused the mission to be aborted.
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In the same area, H. spontaneum also occupies an array of secondary habitats, such as open Mediterranean maquis, abandoned fields, and roadsides.
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Its roots grow deep in the rocky earth of maquis and chaparral.
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Human impact, mainly from grazing, fires, and firewood collection, has transformed the majority of the existing wild olive and carob plant communities into secondary dense shrubs or "maquis" or into agroforestry landscapes composed of scattered trees on grasslands or crops.
Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ la porte-fenêtre (f) = door-window; la serveuse (f) = barmaid; le patron (la patronne) = business owner; la Libération (f) = the freeing from foreign occupation; la mode (f) = fashion; le maquisard (m) = "man of the maquis" (wild mediterranean scrubland) or French resistance fighter hidden in the forests and mountains during WWII; la carrosserie (f) = automobile bodyshop
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Areas of granite and sandstone became colonized by maquis, a low, dense cover of ilex, briars, broom, tree heathers, and laurels.
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It is this kind of underwood which is called mâquis.
Mateo Falcone
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Nancy Wake, the only woman warrior, fought gallantly with the maquis in the Auvergne, but Hastings is no more convinced than many of his fellow historians that the French resistance played more than a decorative role.
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Valleys of almost Alpine verdure are succeeded by tracts of chestnut wood and scattered pines, or deep and flowery brushwood -- the 'maquis' of Corsica, which yields shelter to its traditional outlaws and bandits.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
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The American commander refused to accept the German’s surrender unless it was made jointly to him and to the maquisard commander at his side, around whose shoulder the Yank had draped his arm.
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Today, the most widespread vegetation type is hard-leafed or sclerophyllus shrublands called maquis or matorral, which include representatives from the plant genera Juniperus, Myrtus, Olea, Phillyrea, Pistacia, and Quercus.
Biological diversity in the Mediterranean Basin
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The lowest elevations are distinguished by the predominance of sclerophyllous evergreen and semi-deciduous oak forests (Quercus coccifera, Q. brachyphylla), "maquis" of carob (Ceratonia siliqua), junipers (Juniperus phoenicea), and tree-spurge (Euphorbia dendroides).
Crete Mediterranean forests
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It was common knowledge that the Maquis had waged an attack on German guards that very morning and had freed as many as three hundred American prisoners of war.
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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.
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He had been a member of the vanguard, was captured by armed civilians and taken through Oradour, which was full of Maquisards.
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‘Men could hide in the maquis for months - or even years,’ someone tells me.
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When France was liberated almost entirely by the Allies, it became essential to construct a myth of resistance; just about everybody, it turned out, had been working for the maquis in some way.
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The British grew nervous the massive supply operation would end up arming different Maquis factions to fight one another after the war but Donovan pressed to keep up the airdrops.
Wild Bill Donovan
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Wild olive (Olea europaea) and carob (Ceratonia siliqua) woodlands and maquis are mainly distributed in the southern part of the ecoregion and in river canyons of the Duero and Tajo basins.
Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
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Wild olive (Olea europaea) and carob (Ceratonia siliqua) woodlands and maquis are mainly distributed in the southern portion of the ecoregion (Valencia region and Balearic Islands).
Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
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Wild olive (Olea europaea) and carob (Ceratonia siliqua) woodlands and maquis are mainly distributed in the southern part of the ecoregion and in river canyons of the Duero and Tajo basins.
Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
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Kwongan is a term adapted from the Aboriginal Noongar language to cover the various Western Australian types of shrubland, comparable with the maquis, chaparral, and fynbos of other countries with Mediterranean-type systems.
Biological diversity in Southwest Australia
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It thrives in airy oak forests and the maquis, and prefers warm climates such as those of S. Europe, although found as far north as the south of Sweden, and in Russia.
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In southern France organized groups were known as the Maquis, originally composed mainly of young men avoiding compulsory labour service in Germany.
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There were 22,000 German troops in the area and initially 3-4,000 Maquis.
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Second, women did not generally fight, but they formed linkages helping maquisards, who were often from distant towns and cities, gain rural acceptance.
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We meet Gaspar, the bull-necked boss of the local Maquis, obviously still enraged by the compliance of his neighbours.
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Human impacts, mainly grazing, fires, and firewood collection, have transformed the majority of the remaining wild olive and carob plant communities into secondary dense shrubs, known as "maquis," and into agro-forestry landscapes comprised of scattered trees on grasslands or crops.
Mediterranean woodlands and forests
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He then travelled with members of the maquis to Paris from where he was conducted along the safe route to Spain.
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Revenge has been conjectured, for a popular officer in the division had been abducted by a party from the maquis the day before; so has trouble over the division's gold reserve, looted in its turn from occupied banks.
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There were two gendarmes on bicycles who were liaison agents and a small floating population of chauffeurs and maquisards undertaking various duties.
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The road, after passing up by the S. side of the river through olive groves and "maquis," arrives at the Col and Maison de Cantonniers de
Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads
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The lowest elevations are distinguished by a predominance of sclerophyllous evergreen and semi-deciduous oak forests (Quercus coccifera, Q. infectoria), "maquis" of strawberry tree (Arbutus andrachne), and juniper and cypress woodlands (Cupressus sempervirens, Juniperus phoenicea).
Cyprus Mediterranean forests
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I also pointed out that the Maquis were not a force resisting colonialism in the sense of the term we understand either in the Raj or in Iraq.
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It's an island where isolated villages cling precariously to crags, wild boar snuffle for food and bees grow drunk on the nectar from the maquis - the fragrant scrub that cloaks the island's ancient bones.
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With the creation of the Maquis in the course of 1943, independence and diversity were yet again at the centre of the resistance experience.
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It was at that time that the Maquis became a potent force of the resistance movement.
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Human impact, mainly from grazing, fires, and firewood collection, has transformed the majority of the existing holm oak forest into secondary, dense shrubland, known as "maquis", or into agroforestry landscapes constituted by scattered trees on grasslands or crops.
Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
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Wild olive (Olea europaea and O. maroccana) and carob (Ceratonia siliqua) woodlands and maquis were once widely spread all along the fertile, deep soils of the warmest dry coastal and inland plains.
Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
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Local women persuaded "Lieutenant Pierre", the maquisard in charge, to spare a few of them.
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But don't miss a hike with botanist Stephane Rogliano through the maquis, the hypnotically fragrant cover of shrubs and wild herbs (mint, thyme, laurel, rosemary) that spreads over much of the island.
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In my wartime youth a member of the French Maquis who threw a bomb into a café killing a few German officers and a number of innocent drinkers was a hero of the resistance.
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We meet Gaspar, the bull-necked boss of the local Maquis, obviously still enraged by the compliance of his neighbours.
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The lowest elevations are distinguished by the predominance of sclerophyllous evergreen and semi-deciduous oak forests (Quercus coccifera, Q. brachyphylla), "maquis" of carob (Ceratonia siliqua), junipers (Juniperus phoenicea), and tree-spurge (Euphorbia dendroides).
Crete Mediterranean forests
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In the south of France, for instance, the maquis began with men fleeing into the hills to avoid being conscripted to work in factories.
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Whip this maquisard outfit into something efficient.
Agent Of The Terran Empire
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It was our job to strengthen the organization and discipline of the maquis and provide the link to headquarters for supplies and command as well as general guidance on targets.
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Page 89: Armed maquisard, courtesy of the National Archives, Kew
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View of the kind of maquis overgrowing the still unexcavated parts of the site
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