Adjective : first-line troops. From Dictionary.com.
Man's Land, mastering all the first-line defenses. From Wordnik.com. [Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam] Reference
Would paromomycin work as a first-line therapy in India?. From Wordnik.com. [CHASING BLACK FEVER] Reference
April 16 -- Italy now has 1,200,000 first-line soldiers under arms. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Dietary changes are often suggested as a first-line defense against IBS. From Wordnik.com. [Leslie Goldman: The Flat Belly Food You Don't Know About: Kefir] Reference
To what extent is the developing world still in need of first-line medicine?. From Wordnik.com. [A Step Forward?] Reference
We haven't had a good new first-line drug for tuberculosis in nearly 50 years. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2007] Reference
We haven't had a good, new first-line drug for tuberculosis in nearly 50 years. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2007] Reference
We haven't had a good, new, first-line drug for tuberculosis in nearly 50 years. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2007] Reference
So, it can be a nausea medication, typically not a first-line nausea medication. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 4, 2006] Reference
The first row, signifying the first-line defense arm, was comprised of his many sons. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
So I think Governor Pataki's certainly one of the first-line contenders of the future. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2004] Reference
Therefore, they are the unwitting scouts for the mammals, an oblivious first-line detachment. From Wordnik.com. [Revolutionaries] Reference
"Mechanics" (every trench has a name, like a street), and from there into the first-line trench. From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference
The NCO leader or first-line supervisor conducts individual and small unit collective task training. From Wordnik.com. [FM 7-85 Appendix G]
These so-called second-line anti-retroviral treatments cost 10 times as much as first-line treatments. From Wordnik.com. [A Step Forward?] Reference
They swept over the enemy's first-line trenches and consolidated their position in the defences beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference
He shows up at Ground Zero, a remarkable appearance that he had that day with those first-line defenders. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2002] Reference
Our Brigade was defending a reserve line, and would not fire unless the enemy swept over our first-line system. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Britain had lost a first-line battle cruiser, Queen Mary, but the Germans had lost Lützow, an equivalent vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
U.K. medical-treatment guidelines say that first-line drug therapies should be guided by a patient's age and race. From Wordnik.com. [Getting the Right Hypertension Drug] Reference
Captain against what was equivalent to putting our women in a German first-line trench to be shot by our own people. From Wordnik.com. [Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf'] Reference
Mr Roux calculated that there were at that time about twenty public corporations of first-line rank in South Africa. From Wordnik.com. [reich14] Reference
With data showing that denosumab is superior to Fosamax, Amgen can make the case for the first-line use of the drug. From Wordnik.com. [Amgen Shows Little Growth] Reference
We were following the first-line transport of the corps immediately in front of us, and keeping close up to it, but the. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
We expanded the call yesterday to people who were in those first-line mail-handling recipient categories from Brentwood. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2001] Reference
And also a lot of healthcare institutions because they are around sick people and they are sort of the first-line responders. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2009] Reference
What we're seeing now is a bit of déjà vu of what happened six or seven years ago when first-line medications were so expensive. From Wordnik.com. [A Step Forward?] Reference
Food and Drug Administration rules on an application from Millennium to sell the drug as a first-line treatment for multiple myeloma. From Wordnik.com. [Takeda to Pay Billions to Get Into Biotech] Reference
A few ambulance waggons and some miscellaneous first-line transport were drawn up along the side of the road at the bottom of the dip. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
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