foot soldier
an infantryman.
a dedicated low-level follower.
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They recruited foot soldiers, assembled into formation and descended on the city of Charlottesville for a weekend of rage, the lawyers continued.
Closing arguments conclude in Unite the Right Charlottesville trial | Ellie Silverman | November 18, 2021 | Washington PostThe teams are often organized in silos so the foot soldiers don’t know other players or all the details.
Operation Fox Hunt: How China Exports Repression Using a Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight | by Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg | July 22, 2021 | ProPublicaThe legacy of the foot soldiers like John Lewis requires that we pick up that baton — the baton of voter access, the baton of voter equality — and we continue the next leg.
House Democrats pass sweeping elections bill as GOP legislatures push to restrict voting | Mike DeBonis | March 4, 2021 | Washington PostAn accurate condemnation of the war on drugs would require Christie to target a particularly loud foot soldier: himself.
Chris Christie to the Drug War: I Wish I Knew How to Quit You | Olivia Nuzzi, Abby Haglage | June 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn other words, in the war against heart disease, you might say that Dr. Robertson is an officer and I am a foot soldier.
But, in an email to the Daily Beast, Chaffetz insisted he was simply being a loyal Republican foot soldier.
She was a foot soldier in the Congress when the assault weapons passed in 1994.
Nancy Pelosi Talks About the Budget Vote, Obama’s Grit, Guns, and More | Eleanor Clift | January 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Roman case grew out of a 2010 complaint from a gang member who essentially served as a foot soldier for the family.
Vianna Roman, Alleged Queen of L.A.’s Harpys Gang | Christine Pelisek | December 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTEach bore upon his back a great Chimra, heavy as a sack of coal, or as the equipment of a foot-soldier of Rome.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile GautierEach horseman of the principal corps had a foot soldier riding on the same horse behind him.
The Flying Horseman | Gustave AimardThus reduced to want, he went to London, and having enlisted as a foot-soldier, he was discharged after several years service.
The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 1/2 | Camden PelhamEach horseman received double the share of a foot soldier, and each knight double the share of a horseman.
The latter grasped his crutch, as he had formerly seized the sword he carried as a foot soldier ere he lost his leg before Padua.
Complete Short Works | Georg Ebers
British Dictionary definitions for foot soldier
an infantryman
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