Noun : battalions of bureaucrats.    From Dictionary.com. 

And battalions and battalions and battalions—.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antwerp] Reference

Same dam 'reasons jocks dont join English battalions, Englishmen don't join Irish Bns etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

If France were to recall her battalions from La Vendee.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France]

There are no bugles to call the battalions, and yet without bugles we rally.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Years Between] Reference

A fight; Seltze repulsed two Montenegrin battalions and killed sixteen of the enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Albania] Reference

They were made up of five to ten regiments, which were called battalions when in battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Gallipoli, where the military were attracted to them a bit by the idea of calling their battalions after famous admirals such as Nelson, Drake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Naval Yarns] Reference

Biden confuses "brigades" with "battalions" - for the third time in a week posted at 3: 54 pm on September 3, 2008 by Allahpundit printer-friendly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference

With one of the battalions was a dervish fanatic, carrying a green banner, who spread his praying carpet in every public place in Canea, preaching extermination of the infidels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Autobiography of a Journalist]

It's leaders were rounded up, movement members viciously attacked, and "battalions" targeted workers in factories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reviewing Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"] Reference

If he refuses to go, it's time to pull another colonel out of one of the battle-tested battalions which is engaging in combat and to replace the colonel who refuses to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2006] Reference

They are split into two "battalions", which in turn make up one "division.".    From Wordnik.com.  [SCV Highlights]

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee once again mixed up military "battalions" with "brigades.".    From Wordnik.com.  [TONY PHYRILLAS] Reference

Mr Obama admonished the finance industry for sending "battalions" of lobbyists to Capitol Hill to fight the proposals.    From Wordnik.com.  [News Dissector Blog] Reference

Many of the hundred other U.S. battalions had similar horror stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Blame The Fighter Jocks] Reference

McCain and his teammates faced off against other battalions in weekly bouts.    From Wordnik.com.  [John McCain: 'I Learned How to Take Hard Blows'] Reference

And there's one Iraqi division, four brigades and 33 battalions that are in the lead today.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Job Ahead: 'They're Not Going Back'] Reference

The Serbs outnumber the Bosnian defenders with larger, better trained and equipped battalions.    From Wordnik.com.  ['THE BLOCKADE IS A JOKE'] Reference

By his count, maybe one in four of Iraq's Army battalions are able to "perform a useful function.".    From Wordnik.com.  [So Now What, Mr. President?] Reference

Currently, the 11-man teams are assigned to Iraqi battalions of some 500 men made up of four companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perils of Partnership] Reference

There is a way in which Osama bin-Laden has won, weakening our country more than military battalions ever could.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger Friedland: Why Do We Hate Them Now? Anti-Islamic Feelings Nine Years After 9/11] Reference

Last week the government called in several battalions from the countryside in anticipation of more demonstrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back To The Streets] Reference

Twice the aggressive mosquito battalions had freed Brazilian territory of Aedes aegypti, in 1955 and again in 1973.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bug Is Back] Reference

Army battalions were diverted to the quake zone, bringing cranes and listening devices capable of locating survivors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nothing Between Earth And Sky] Reference

But they've accepted the Russians, notorious black marketeers, while objecting to the battalions from Kenya and Jordan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Troop Choice] Reference

What used to be mounds of birch& pear& cherry are scattered like lost battalions in some forgotten European village war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raking Leaves with Billy Collins] Reference

Offered the right incentives, warlords can accomplish U.S. objectives more effectively and cheaply than Western combat battalions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Things We Need to Do Now] Reference

Offered the right incentives, warlords can accomplish U.S. objectives more effectively and more cheaply than Western combat battalions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winning In Afghanistan] Reference

In the past eight months British, French and U.S. military instructors have trained only seven undersize battalions of fewer than 500 men each.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reining In The Warlords] Reference

And they are praying that the soldiers perform better than last April, when two battalions of poorly trained Iraqi Army soldiers refused to fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hell to Pay] Reference

In 1992, Bill Clinton's battalions understood that cable and satellite uplinks -- and the "rapid response" they made possible -- were the next new thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Three Pentagon sources report that as of mid-February of 1991, more than 1,200 pregnant women had been evacuated from the gulf-the equivalent of two infantry battalions.    From Wordnik.com.  [War And The Second Sex] Reference