Dessa är ordets examples relaterade till rearguard. Klicka på valfritt ord för att gå till dess ords detaljsida. Eller, gå till definitionen av rearguard.
Yet much of the book is a foot-dragging rearguard action which subtlely attempts to undermine the established hypothesis.
Firms that had once dominated colonial polities now found themselves fighting rearguard actions, compelled to give way on one critical issue after another.
Rather, the past two centuries have been a perpetual rearguard action against the modernising forces at the gates of both palace and temple.
The rearguard stood and fought fiercely for two days without interruption.
Aging movements, if they have made their way over time into the existing party establishment, pose the prospect of rearguard resistance to insurgency.
Their criticisms amount to a kind of cultural protectionism, the rearguard action of outmoded gatekeepers protesting the rise of new mediators.
In fact, the triumph of the dean and chapter was only achieved through a highly effective rearguard action to defeat a major threat to its authority.
It can develop in ways that are more inclusive of all workers or in ways that preserve a distinction between an economic vanguard and an economic rearguard.
I sincerely feel that this is a rearguard action, out of step in terms of the information now available to our fellow citizens.
We want to shape the future, and shaping the future does not mean fighting a rearguard action or useless protectionism, but accompanying change.
The second rearguard action which has to be fought is on the question of affinity.
We usually fight a rearguard action but there are now 44-tonne lorries on our roads.
Indeed, that rearguard action has itself adversely affected confidence in the police.
They will be fighting a rearguard action to get some of that money back in the autumn.
Perhaps the post offices are trying to fight a rearguard action because they do not want people to move over to automated credit transfer.
