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- noun Plural form of
territorial .
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Examples
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To stanch the Soviet invasion they even (grotesquely, as Beevor captures well) organized young boys and old men into a Volkssturm (typically pompous, untranslatable Nazi language; "enraged territorials" is probably close enough).
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To stanch the Soviet invasion they even (grotesquely, as Beevor captures well) organized young boys and old men into a Volkssturm (typically pompous, untranslatable Nazi language; "enraged territorials" is probably close enough).
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So when you saw this large Saudi tanker being hauled into the territorials of Somalia, that is why.
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The military are elsewhere, the territorials are being run down, it will be unstoppable.
The Coming Dirty Bomb upon UK streets Lionheart 2007
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Two active-duty regiments and a brigade of territorials crushed two heavy corps as if it were a sand-table exercise.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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Left and right of Mackall's tank, the largely middle-aged German territorials cowered in their deep, narrow holes, their emotions oscillating between terror and rage at what was happening to them and their country-and their homes!
Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986
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About 7 p.m. on the 12th, however, the Turks started a determined attack on the Vineyard, and succeeded in recovering from the hardy Lancashire territorials most of the ground they had so gallantly captured on the 6th.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 F. L. Morrison
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We have with us here our own gallant territorials, becoming every day a fitter and a finer force, eager and anxious to respond to any call either at home or abroad that may be made upon them.
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The territorials, without any such stimulus in the piping times of peace, when war and the sufferings and the struggles and glories of war were contingent and remote, these men gave their time, sacrificed their leisure -- not only in their annual training, but in thousands of cases both officers and men devoted their spare hours to preparing themselves in the study and the practice of the art of war.
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They talk of 40,000 to 50,000 men, chiefly newly enlisted forces and territorials; but Englishmen, too, are said to be among them.
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various
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