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Перевод: rearguard

[существительное]
арьергард ; тыльный отряд

Тезаурус:

1. The number of goals created from rearguard beginnings by Alex James were the most significant factor in Arsenal's greatness."
2. Although the government placed "the political and economic backbone of the Republic in heavy industry and in transport", Trotsky observed at the Twelfth Party Congress that they actually formed the rearguard.
3. Be that as it may, the last two state-supported military schools that refuse to admit women cadets are fighting a rearguard action for their cause.
4. The new, spacious Mk 3 rolling stock, with its luggage stowage space and automatic vestibule doors, was at last making these a practicality; and, despite some unofficial rearguard action, in 1984 the NUR ended opposition.
5. Such men found themselves, however, fighting what became all too clearly a rearguard action.
6. I'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action, protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another, that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life, and so on and so forth.
7. When the main army is far ahead, and the rearguard is entering the pass of Roncesvalles, it is suddenly attacked by an immensely superior force of Saracens.
8. The despair in the air was particularly dense at the present time, though its monetarist perpetrators were now fighting a rearguard action against the rest of Europe.
9. This rule, still in existence while Visa and Mastercard fight a rearguard action with the Office of Fair Trading, prevents banks from processing card transactions until they have built up a large base of card-holders.
10. Seeing the ice hold beneath their weight, the last of the Russian rearguard flung themselves upon the lake in thousands.
11. "It did get to me," he said of Taylor's prolonged rearguard action.
12. There are armed men at the front of each procession, and a rearguard, but they do not fight: priests play a far more prominent role in the proceedings.
13. Its rearguard battle to discourage solecisms such as the use of "aggravate" to mean "irritate" and "decimate" to mean "slaughter most of" is to be abandoned.