quasi-military

The military and quasi-military free companies cluster together at the east end.

They kept their places, as if this sort of quasi-military invasion happened every day.

This converted the department from a quasi-military organization into a civil police force.

The home was operated in a quasi-military fashion at the time.

It is also looking at its gulf experience as a possible model for future quasi-military missions.

Others, including some in this area, appear to serve as quasi-military bases.

It was the second change induced by the quasi-military nature of the expedition.

My officers understand that this is a quasi-military organization, an elite corps.

And as part of a quasi-military bureaucracy, they are accustomed to following orders.

There is still a morning lineup, but it has shed its quasi-military character.

The men were required to live and work communally under "quasi-military" conditions.

Some have even been convicted of using their quasi-military authority to commit crimes.

The group has a quasi-military structure, organized into groups of five called pyatyorki.

The American man is blond and has a hard-jawed quasi-military look about him.

Britain now has a quasi-military police potential for dealing with violent protest.

It was a quasi-military position and all news was censored from above.

He wore a quasi-military uniform that was too tight across the belly.

Failing the test during the season opener, she was sent to a quasi-military boot camp.

But for problems demanding an iron will and a quasi-military strategy, like the war on crime, few were better suited.

Everything is under a quasi-military form of management.

The first 5 months are part of the quasi-military Residential Phase.

They then held a quasi-military parade along the main street and attacked two Gardaí.

But Israel is fighting an entire population of some three million who deeply resent living under quasi-military occupation.

The weapon is meant to help American soldiers in the quasi-military roles of police and peacekeepers.

I think that the quasi-military look of conductors' uniforms generates a certain respect.