The scene is like something from Soviet propaganda: a brigade of women working quickly along acres of vines, snipping bunches of grapes with secateurs.
In practice, companies simply cannot move fast enough to stop the dodgy goods from going abroad, nor can they realistically afford to employ a brigade of border representatives armed with bagloads of Vietnamese money.
The other treaty will allow the setting up of a "combined joint expeditionary force", thought to involve a brigade of about 5, 000 soldiers from each side, which will operate under one military commander to be chosen at the time.
Traditionally, a brigade consists of up to 3, 500 soldiers, but those soldiers have to be accompanied by "enablers" who provide support.
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was also examining a possible merger with a neighbouring brigade among a list of 50 options.
My wife, yesterday, told me that it was a shock because once my brigade combat team had redeployed from Iraq, she thought we were kind of done with losses for a while and then losing Sattar was like losing a member of my brigade.
He reviews his farming childhood, his happy marriage to a good woman called Rachel and his wartime service in Italy as a member of the 10th Mountain Brigade, as he encounters a series of lovers, drifters, loners, psychotic hunters and sick illegal immigrants all of whom have something to teach him.
On Saturday, The Guardian carried the fascinating story of the Red Brigade, a group of uniformed female vigilantes who physically punish sexual offenders.
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After failing to recapture the oil terminals at Brega and Ras Lanuf, he has apparently laid a ring of landmines to defend Sirte and deployed a brigade there, led by one of his sons, Saadi.
The change came as Itron's research group in Paris realized it could exploit inexpensive new wireless chips and open-source software to create a so-called mesh network of electric meters that passed information among themselves, like firemen in a bucket brigade, instead of relying on expensive and less reliable individual connections to the Internet.
Beyond that, if my recommendations are approved, that unit's departure will be followed by the withdrawal of a brigade combat team without replacement in mid-December, and the further redeployment without replacement of four other brigade combat teams, and the two surge Marine battalions in the first seven months of 2008, until we reach the pre-surge levels of 15 brigade combat teams by mid-July 2008.
"Qatar is working to establish an Islamic state in Syria, " Abu Ziad, the commander of a brigade in the Damascus suburb, said sullenly, his Kalashnikov rifle resting on a wooden chair next to his tea glass.
Meanwhile, three-year-old Code For America, a nonprofit that recruits experienced coders nationally for projects like building databases for local governments, has expanded its annual fellowship program from three to nine projects and last year launched a broad "brigade" of volunteer techies to work on ad hoc civic programs.
Now, a friend of mine who owns a supermarket here says his supplies of bottled water come from an Iraqi army brigade that would rather have a few extra dollars in their pockets than drink healthy water.
And a member of Colonel Shields' Stryker Brigade was killed by a sniper.
In Rhode Island, 300 members of a military police brigade were scheduled to drill on Saturday and Sunday but the drill has been moved up because of the storm.
Local groups like to differentiate themselves: members of the Farouq Brigade, a large rebel group based in the devastated city of Homs, sport T-shirts and key-rings embossed with their logo.
We see on the video a logo of a previously unknown group called the Revenge Brigade.
He is a 21-year-old soldier, a member of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.
Ben Hodges, a commander of the 1st Brigade, that the soldier lobbed three grenades into the three tents housing commanding officers from the tactical operations center.
The Navy now has 13 maritime prepositioned ships (MPS) divided into three squadrons, each capable of supporting a brigade-sized Marine Corps air-ground task force for 30 days.
Sri Lanka's powerful Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was guest of honour at the opening of a Buddhist Brigade training school, and referred to the monks as those who "protect our country, religion and race".
Mr. Bencheneb, who went by the alias "Tahir" during the siege, introduced himself to one plant employee as a leader of the Masked Brigade tied to the so-called Signatories in Blood and mentioned his association with Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed Algerian smuggler and former top commander of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
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Last month, regional African leaders signed a UN-brokered accord to end the conflict, which may lead to the establishment of a special UN intervention brigade.
Ayman Abu Aita, a former member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, was incorrectly portrayed in the film as a terrorist leader.
Beau serves as Delaware's Attorney General and recently returned home from Iraq where he served as a Captain in the 261st Signal Brigade of the Delaware National Guard.
For example, in exchange for Gorbachev merely announcing that he would "begin discussions" with the Cuban leadership about withdrawal of a Soviet training brigade -- which Baker called a "very substantial gesture....that would be very important with respect to public opinion in the United States" -- the Bush Administration is putting out the word that the Cuban obstacle to U.S. assistance to Moscow has been overcome.
They are the work of Jean Verame, a Belgian artist who enlisted the help of the fire brigade for his project in 1984.
The new chairman of the Magazine Publishers of America, Jack Kliger--born in Italy to a couple of young Holocaust survivors rescued by the Jewish Brigade--could be the stuff of magazine cover stories.
We owe the likes of Zaki -- and the Iranians who call their most prestigious terrorist unit the Jerusalem Brigade - a big thank you for reminding us of who we are and what we need to survive.
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