Read and translate the following sentences paying special attention to the words in bold type.
1. Newsstands and information booths were ringed by crowds, among them many military uniforms. 2. The role of military expenditure in the modern State gives rise to a «very sombre thought». 3.Gabriel had pleaded not guilty. He is being held in military custody. 4. Jimmy danced well, like most men of his type who have spent a good deal of time In India and attending military balls at home. 5. To «park» is in fact military in origin, and was being used with reference to wagons and guns as far back as the Napoleonic wars. 6. Bands played the Soviet national anthem and military units marched past. 7. When I had left Port-au-Prince the embassy staff had already been reduced to a charge, a secretary and two marine guards, who were all that remained of the military mission. 8. The excuse, «We cannot afford it», is completely unacceptable. Especially when money is poured out on useless military operations. 9. You expelled their military mission. You had the ambassador recalled. You can’t expect much confidence there, can you? 10. They want the Americans out, they want no foreign bases or military alliances. 11. Much-applauded calls for a General Election now emphasized the militant mood of the Labour Party conference. 12. Dutch students have begun militant action in protest against the Minister of Education’s threat to send down all students who have not paid the new £ 140 tuition fee before March 3. 13. But the fate of the Red Man is not all despair, for now the Indians are learning new organizational ways of fighting back as militant Red Power finds new levels of resistance and activities. 14. Members up and clown the country are feeling extremely militant at the board’s attitude, and there have been calls for strike action. 15. The secretary of the broad defence committee which is co-ordinating the campaign of trade unions, local councils and other bodies against the closure of the steel-works, yesterday called for militant action. Mr John Griffiths said constitutional measures seemed to have failed. The committee was meeting last night to consider a militant campaign.
