I am here as one more foot soldier in that campaign.
If it is, is it in the best interests of the ordinary foot soldier and his morale?
We underestimate at our peril the importance of the foot soldier and all that he can do in both combat and, equally importantly, humanitarian terms.
It is very refreshing to have, so to speak, a former foot soldier of the police in our midst.
Its basis is that powers should be delegated and devolved until, finally, we come to the man who is, so to speak, the foot soldier of the mining industry.
I pay my own small tribute as a foot soldier in his army over the past 12 months or so to the magnificent leadership that he has given us.
But during the course of the siege he was wounded in the arm in a scuffle with a foot soldier.
Each of its heads had its own character: one was a foot soldier, the other a general and the last a politician.