Collocations withsoldier

These are words often used in combination withsoldier.

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armed soldier
All those are qualities highly valuable in an armed soldier in time of war.
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brave soldier
Although they also reproduce gendered discourses positing the strong, brave soldier as masculine, they overwhelmingly embrace discipline, rationality, order and education.
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british soldier
British soldiers enforced this mass of evictions, and came to blows with the inhabitants.
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citizen soldier
It is depriving the citizen soldier of his civic rights after you have put him into uniform.
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combat soldier
Behind every combat soldier, 14 technical and skilled staff are necessary to maintain him.
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confederate soldier
Confederate soldier who after being wounded had evidently dragged himself to a little ravine on the hillside where he died.
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elite soldiers
They are trained from infancy to be elite soldiers and support staff and to follow orders without question.
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enemy soldier
On his second trip with the wounded, he was clubbed from behind by an enemy soldier.
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experienced soldier
That was a thoughtful work by an experienced soldier.
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fallen soldier
They are asking for the kind of honourable treatment which would be given to any fallen soldier in a war, for they indeed are the victims of war.
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fellow soldier
Veterans expressed outrage over the affront to a fellow soldier.
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female soldier
Other women would become a female soldier by first joining the army as a male trying to achieve equality.
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fighting soldier
That is partly because his training has equipped him to he an active fighting soldier.
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front-line soldier
The cynicism of the front-line soldier can now be shared by any and all, thanks to the vivid new technologies of mass communication.
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infantry soldier
I am the happier to do that as an infantry soldier myself.
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injured soldier
Throughout the operation the pilot demonstrated anticipation, courage and flying skill of the highest order, and the injured soldier almost certainly owes his life to him.
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male soldier
Many of them are relieving male colleagues of work so that the male soldier can go and fight.
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marching soldiers
Long narrow lines of marching soldiers were unable to easily stop and about-face.
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ordinary soldier
The life of the ordinary soldier at the present time is constantly a life of control.
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professional soldier
It was perhaps the view of the professional soldier.
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rebel soldiers
The commandos, who were carrying gas masks, went into formation after rebel soldiers refused to accept warrants for their arrest.
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reserve soldier
That is good, but reserve soldiers, sailors and airmen do not have the training background of regulars.
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retired soldier
In other cases, the local community (for which the responsibility for soldiers was a form of tax) could allow the retired soldier to retain his house.
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returning soldier
I have no doubt that the returning soldier would join in the censure.
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surviving soldier
Do we, then, know what the experience is like for that surviving soldier left alone in front of the camera?
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toy soldier
Toy soldier is less obvious (perhaps because a toy soldier is not actually a soldier in the real sense).
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trained soldier
It is boring enough for a trained soldier.
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uniformed soldier
That is the kind of problem the uniformed soldier is up against.
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Union soldiers
Union soldiers began to feel the effect of extremely short rations and many of their horses and mules died.
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unknown soldier
This could explain why one of the soldiers buried in the grave is an unknown soldier.
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veteran soldier
But all did not go well for the veteran soldier.
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wounded soldier
A wounded soldier is always free to refuse an injection.
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young soldier
The idea that a young soldier should marry was rather discouraged.
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