gendarmery
- a variation of gendarmerie.
Example Sentences
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Alerted by Jewish ex-partisans that a big Nazi was in the neighborhood, Wiesenthal checked with the local gendarmery.
From Time Magazine Archive
But though the bandit chief rates as Iran's Public Enemy No. 1, his business, a strictly domestic affair, has gone largely unhampered by the Shah's gendarmery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, Iran has a gendarmery of 20,000 and a conscript army of 130,000 scattered across the land to maintain internal security.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Tshombe wanted all or nothing: virtual independence for Katanga, his own gendarmery, and a corps of foreign mercenaries to run it.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few charges had been made by the gendarmery in dispersing crowds, and a few random shots had been fired.
From Louis Philippe Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
