Get out a skirmish line, nominate our spies, bolster up our defences, set a watch, court-martial the prisoners, and look into the commissariat.
He also contracted to supply the commissariat, which he did with advantage to the army and profit to himself.
I want the commissariat properly organized.
In his youth he had been a contractor to supply mules for the use of the Roman commissariat.
The commissariat wagons had come up in the night, and rations were served out to the troops and breakfast prepared.
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There are fascinating details about breeding, trade and military potential of the horse, the elephant, dromedaries, oxen and other animals important to the militarycommissariat.
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In mesoeconomics it has provided us with information both about the industrial commissariats and about a variety of sectors.
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Commissariatunits had lost themselves in the hills, while ordnance had supplied dud ammunition.
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Thecommissariatwas established in 1934.
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The general always used to speak deprecatingly of "commissariat".
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He has attacked the politicalcommissariatof the army and its political controllers, but not the army itself.
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Unlike modern major generals, military historians do know what is meant bycommissariat.
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They will accept short commons for a bit while the transport andcommissariatare being organised.
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It was an affair of horses, forced marches, gravecommissariattroubles, and fierce hand-to-hand fighting.
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They were all competing with each other in transport, in supply, incommissariat, in doctors, even in chaplains.
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Planning in general must be democratically accountable; if it is not, it is not planning but is part of acommissariatdirective.
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They pointed out that they would be completely within their rights in making me follow twenty-five miles to the localcommissariatof police to be fined £20 on the spot.
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Article 3(3), which deals with commissariats, provides for the continuation of commissary business within the new sheriffdoms.
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On the contrary, thecommissariathas been so ample and excellent as to invoke the admiration of all who are informed and the gratitude of the forces in the field.
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Military commissariats however should not be confused with the institution of military political commissars.
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