How To Use Rearguard In A Sentence
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In the period after the interval their methodical probing of the Hibs rearguard continued and Alex Burns should have done more than blaze wide of the target when presented with an inviting, angled opening.
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At times the home rearguard looked tentative.
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They supported the pork-barrelling and protection of special interests, fighting a desperate rearguard action against the advancing dries.
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So now a rearguard battle is being fought to avoid this particular tide of history.
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Allowing the tiny twosome to wreak havoc is the Brazilian midfield minder, prone to fisticuffs and protective of the rearguard.
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Desjardins is still an above-average rearguard on a competent but unspectacular defensive corps.
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Roland becomes the commander of the rearguard, appointed to the post at the instance of the traitor Ganelon, who is in league with the Saracen king Marsile.
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This is a sneak attack, a rearguard action by those who still want to see statutory control of the press.
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Mercifully, he had played no role in the shooting, serving as the rearguard of the second unit.
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My friend himself witnessed such a rearguard action.
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We crossed quickly, followed by the rifle and the howitzer and the rearguard.
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The government is fighting a rearguard action against the mass of public opinion.
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The commander finally withdrew his rearguard and moved the last few soldiers across the abandoned camp.
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Record players in a 1970s style fought a rearguard action against all things digital.
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At times the home rearguard looked tentative.
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The increasing response of the dealers to their rivals claiming ever more generous helpings of the retail art market is to mount a powerful rearguard action in the shape of a spectacular or specialist art fair.
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United were playing a positive attacking game and again Samuel caused palpitations in the home rearguard.
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My friend himself witnessed such a rearguard action.
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Bookmakers are fighting a rearguard action to defend them.
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The cleric is fighting a rearguard action here, and a rearguard action on two fronts.
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Record players in a 1970s style fought a rearguard action against all things digital.
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He scored the goal that his play deserved with five minutes left as he finished off a fine dribble through the stretched Strand rearguard.
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With Celtic bolstering their strike-force, it is the Rangers rearguard which could have the key to the title.
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His strong, direct running and sturdy defence could be vital to the Irish cause on a day their rearguard faces a severe test.
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Also in the second period the home rearguard were fortunate not to have conceded a second goal.
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Rookie Paul Ranger is a mobile rearguard who has blended in nicely while logging more than 16 minutes per game.
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The one hand executes the two movements almost simultaneously, leaving the rearguard hand to counter any further direct attack.
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As the game progressed, Celtic began to control the exchanges, but some clever rearguard actions defused some promising Celtic wows, in which Ian Farrell and Tom Butler were prominent.
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Hastily formed forces like the U. S. Army's Task Force Smith resisted valiantly, but the infantry was overrun in desperate rearguard battles.
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On the stroke of half-time, Stoke finally pierced through the resolute City rearguard with a swift, incisive move.
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The government is fighting a rearguard action against the mass of public opinion.
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On one side progress was threatened by the old aristocratic and clerical elites, which remained unreconciled to the Revolution and conducted a desperate rearguard action to reverse it.
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Right at the back were lines of rearguard infantrymen.
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The cleric is fighting a rearguard action here, and a rearguard action on two fronts.
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However, on August 26th, a British rearguard guarding the retreat of the bulk of the BEF did sustain 8,000 casualties at the Battle of Le Chateau.
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The manner in which Swansea eased into the lead exposed again the vulnerability of the home rearguard.
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A fragile defense conceded five times as tactical confusion turned an impregnable rearguard into a poor one.
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Then their rearguard action faltered and having been softened up by the sheer size and physicality of their opponents they were cut open.
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We had been fighting a rearguard action across France, and we were 30 miles outside Dunkirk when the evacuation began on May 26th.
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This series follows the body's rearguard battles to stay alive from birth to old age.
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The rearguard still looked unshakeable but going forward City too often over complicated matters.
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Mr Urban looks increasingly like someone fighting a rearguard action to keep their job.
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They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished.
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He is ready to give offense to both the vanguard and the rearguard of the modem Roman Church-and to many in the middle.
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If he is not to be remembered as someone who has hit more international sixes than any England player except Andrew Flintoff, and who more than once has gone to a century in that manner and missed out on a couple in the attempt, then it his rearguards that will forever enshrine him in the public affection.
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Our line of defence straddled a major road from which the bulk of our unit was withdrawn the night before the British attack and my platoon was left behind as the rearguard with the instruction to fight to the last bullet.
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Clarke Carlisle, a titan in the Leeds rearguard, cut it out at the expense of a corner, and the tone for what followed was set.
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This is a sneak attack, a rearguard action by those who still want to see statutory control of the press.
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A hamstring injury meant White was missing for the second half when a strong rearguard was needed to protect the lead.
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He missed a determined rearguard effort from his side, who displayed a character and defiance not often seen from French teams on the road.
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It was not the same but Stuart Elliot tested the Rangers rearguard with a dipping effort that moved just over.
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The success of the long retreat and the rearguard engagements in 1944 and 1945 came despite, rather than because of, Hitler.
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And with almost his first touch, he tested the rearguard with a mazy dribble to the edge of the box but he just didn't get his shot in quickly enough.
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When the army advances on the enemy, these men by custom form the vanguard and on their return the rearguard.
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Hickey played down the attacks, dismissing those involved as being ‘a handful of rearguards attempting to maintain a degree of political relevance.’
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It was rather a fighting withdrawal - possibly the finest rearguard action in the Pacific campaign.
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Winger Michael Blackwood used his pace on the left to aggravate the Reds' defence, but Jonathan Smith's return to the heart of the rearguard gave them aerial protection.
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At the pass of Rencesvals, the twenty thousand Christians of the rearguard are ambushed by a vastly superior force, numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
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It retreated and maintained a hold over rearguard elements.
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Some afterwards though, a young lensman is in trouble in space, his ship is attacked, and the space axes come out while fighting a rearguard action.
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‘The most important thing is to win the game but it would be great to score,’ he says when asked if he dreams of bettering the Rangers rearguard again this afternoon.
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A lack of composure in the rearguard spread through the team and while Swansea had looked for the most part toothless in attack their equaliser when it came was no more a surprise than it was deserved.
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More telling was that the past days have punctured holes in the idea of them having a strong and organised rearguard.
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To a non-yachtie like me, the intricacies of the sport are a mystery, but television coverage of what could seem slower than a Paul Collingwood rearguard innings, has been greatly enhanced by the use of computer graphics, which brought it to life, told me the race situations, and generally unravelled things.
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When the ball did reach him, he was constantly buffeted by the Faroes' burly rearguard and struggled to make it stick.
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This is a sneak attack, a rearguard action by those who still want to see statutory control of the press.
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The attack on the village was supposed to do no more than pin down the British rearguard while the French left, safe in the knowledge that their foes had already marched, were now eagerly trying to outmarch them.
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The government is fighting a rearguard action against the mass of public opinion.
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Mr Urban looks increasingly like someone fighting a rearguard action to keep their job.
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Not that Rangers’ combined weaponry this season is granting opposition rearguards compassionate abeyance either.
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They have been fighting a rearguard action to stop a supermarket being built on the land.
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Rival factions and some army leaders are fighting a fierce rearguard action against the president.
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There's been an ongoing rearguard action from that group, " he said.
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From his Taipei retreat, Chiang Kai-shek continued his rearguard fight in that civil war, leading China to perpetuate the hostilities which continue to this day.
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More telling was that the past days have punctured holes in the idea of them having a strong and organised rearguard.
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Despite such incursions splitting the Hibs rearguard, some of the attempts were timid and those that were not were met by the reassuring Colgan.
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But this is a rearguard action while the pharmaceutical companies search for that elusive new product.
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Our Allies have prudently contented themselves with fighting stubborn rearguard actions, but have made no attempt to cling too long to a salient which had become dangerous.
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But this is a rearguard action while the pharmaceutical companies search for that elusive new product.
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Rams boss Jim Smith claimed today's win had shunted his side to within five points of their 39-point target for safety and praised his defence for another sterling rearguard performance.
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Rambling and canoeing organisations have now launched a fierce rearguard fight against British Waterways, which they say is guilty of scaremongering, and are arguing the case for a Scottish Waterways organisation to be set up.
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When the main army had safely traversed the passes, the rear was suddenly attacked by an overwhelming body of mountaineers, Gascons and Basques, who, resenting the violation of their mountain sanctuaries, and longing for plunder, drove the Frankish rearguard into a little valley (now marked by the chapel of Ibagneta and still called Roncesvalles), and there slew every man.
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The men who carry out 'honour killings,' or murder young brides over their dowries are also part of a rearguard action that wants to deny women the right to be equal.
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Add Bellamy's searing pace into that attack and it makes for a stressful afternoon for the Rangers rearguard.
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The drama-documentary series tells the story of the Army's rearguard who valiantly held a last line of defence, allowing hundreds of thousands of others time to escape.
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Hawks hurriedly flew off to protect Paris but Paris was soon occupied and the Hawk pilots attempted to fight a rearguard action as they retreated from one base to another.
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As the inquiry went on, the Metropolitan Police fought a rearguard attempt to stop ‘institutionalised racism’ from being put into the report.
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This is a sneak attack, a rearguard action by those who still want to see statutory control of the press.
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The Bulgarian may not be every fans' favourite, but his willingness to chase, harass, and generally do the dirty work was obvious in the first half and gave greater protection to the Charlton rearguard.
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The collective violence in both rearguards by brutal perpetrators against undeserving victims justifies the use of the word 'holocaust'," he writes.
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They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished.
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The guardsman hit hard and lay still, and shouts of alarm and terror mixed with fresh cries of pain as arrows pelted his straggling rearguard.
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The libertarian wing of the revolution overreached itself, and is now fighting rearguard actions on two fronts: foreign policy and biotechnology.
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He is the top point getter among rearguards in the play-offs.
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The ball was hacked clear and after some indecision in the home rearguard Enda Muldoon raced over the try line.
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Smith's struggle against secularism can be viewed as a lifetime of rearguard actions.
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I hope to convince readers that this is not simply a nostalgic reactionary's rearguard defence of a bygone era but a highly desirable way of meeting the needs of many patients today.
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Our Allies have prudently contented themselves with fighting stubborn rearguard actions, but have made no attempt to cling too long to a salient which had become dangerous.
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The government is fighting a rearguard action against the mass of public opinion.
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Too few troops on the ground going in left the heartland unconquered and rearguard supply troops vulnerable to attack.
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In spite of brave rearguard actions the British, French and Belgian troops had been practically driven into the sea by the numerically superior and better equipped German forces.
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The Devils took notice and in 1999 signed the offensive rearguard as a free agent.
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But even if their forays into French territory became rarer, Italy can at least take heart from their rearguard action which, combined with some woeful French handling, restricted the hosts to penalties.
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The East was bringing the battle to the South, leaving only a few soldiers as a rearguard at the palace.
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Bookmakers are fighting a rearguard action to defend them.
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The battalion later acted as rearguard to their brigade as it gradually withdrew from Norway.
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It is commonly used by troops intending to hold a position against an advancing enemy, by rearguards covering a retreat, or by advanced parties while they wait to be reinforced.
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Rival factions and some army leaders are fighting a fierce rearguard action against the president.
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He missed a determined rearguard effort from his side, who displayed a character and defiance not often seen from French teams on the road.
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Okulicki and Pelczynski thought the plan for Warsaw's underground fighters to wait until the Wehrmacht evacuated the city, and then harass its rearguard, was too passive.
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Thousands had died on the battlefields, in rearguard bombing raids and in repressive purges.
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With the pace in their ranks they could do this with some menace, but after their shoogly start the Hibs rearguard didn't give them too many openings.
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Dirk Kuyt was used with Maxi Rodriguez and Alberto Reira either sideof him and, with the re-called Gerrard arriving late in support when hecould, the Wolves rearguard was stretched to breaking point on severaloccasions.
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Every hockey dynasty had the common element of an outstanding defensive rearguard to anchor play in the defensive zone.
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This series follows the body's rearguard battles to stay alive from birth to old age.
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The unions were determined to fight a rearguard action against the government's plans to strip them of their powers.
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Rival factions and some army leaders are fighting a fierce rearguard action against the president.
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The Communist troops were already moving out when their rearguard was attacked by Guomindang troops and defeated with heavy casualties.
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Putin's efforts at a Eurasian Union thus appear to be a rearguard action to stem the tide of increasing Chinese omnipotence in Russia's backyard.
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Dirk Kuyt was used with Maxi Rodriguez and Alberto Reira either side of him and, with the re-called Gerrard arriving late in support when he could, the Wolves rearguard was stretched to breaking point on several occasions.
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The manner in which Swansea eased into the lead exposed again the vulnerability of the home rearguard.
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Oldham's attack had a fruitless afternoon against a Rovers' rearguard in which Kevin Moran was outstanding.
