They had always been a clannish tribe, presenting an unbroken phalanx of overlapping shields to the world in time of stress, no matter what their private opinions of the conduct of individual kinsmen might be.
Mr Khan, a former cricket star who is campaigning for an election due in October, is holed up at his house in Lahore, surrounded by a phalanx of supporters, who forcefully resisted the police's efforts.
So imagine you're slicing a nice garlic-cheese bagel one morning, and you lacerate the distal phalanx of your pollex — in other words, you cut the tip of your thumb.
On the day of the hike, in April 2016, they ran a 60-second commercial showing the company's gray-haired chairman, backed by a phalanx of dark-suited workers, all bowing in deep contrition.
So I think that the interesting thing for me about the Macedonian phalanx is that You had a whole series of developments in Greek military history about the depth of the line and the length of the spear.
Designed to defend navy ships from anti ship missiles, helicopters, drones, and other fast-moving targets, a Phalanx unit consists of a 20mm Vulcan cannon paired with Ku-band radar system for tracking targets.
方阵部队旨在保护海军舰艇免受反舰导弹、 直升机、 无人机和其他快速移动目标侵害,由一门 20 毫米火神炮和用于跟踪目标 Ku 波段雷达系统组成。
And that moment is when the idea of the revolution, when people are not just isolated, atomized individuals, but they begin to form a phalanx of people that are discontented.
This allowed Greek troops to fight in the famed phalanx formation, and presented any would-be attackers with a unified front of long spears to contend with.
He hadn't been schooled in the intricacies of professionalized Hellenistic warfare, with its combined-arms approach to maximizing the effectiveness of pike phalanxes, elephants, and cavalry.