rearguard

• “Still bedding in together, the Arsenal manager sees in them the foundations of a new, long-term rearguard.”

  The Guardian: Arsène Wenger feels Per Mertesacker can be Arsenal's 'new Tony Adams'

• “Even after the feminist revolution nepotism continues to play a role in rearguard efforts to preserve the male monopoly on power.”

  In Praise of Nepotism

• “England's defence was the one part of the team to impress in Denmark but with players such as Chris Smalling and Phil Jones having outgrown this level, the rearguard was the focus of most of Pearce's rebuilding here, with three of the four players starting for the first time being defenders and the other the goalkeeper, Jack Butland of Birmingham City.”

  The Guardian: England U21 6-0 Azerbaijan U21 | Euro 2013 qualifier match report

• “You must tell her that Wellington is leaving a rearguard at Arapiles and that he will try to convince Marmont that the rearguard is his whole army.”

  Sharpe's Sword

• “As an additional evil, the battalion was still rearguard, which is generally the most tiring position in a column.”

  The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland

• “You and I will form the rearguard, which is the position of danger and honour in warfare o 'this sort -- at least if it isn't, it ought to be.”

  The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains

• “With Paul Mara also out with an upper-body injury, the Canadiens recalled rearguard Yannick Weber from AHL Hamilton.”

  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed

• “The rearguard should be the ships that I have called the supports, which are to be the fourth part of the fleet, and the lightest and best sailers; but they must not move in rear of the fleet, because they would not see well what is passing so as to give timely succour, and therefore they ought always to keep an offing on that side or flank of the fleet where the flagship is, or on both sides if they are many; and if they are in one body they should work to station themselves to windward for the reasons aforesaid.”

  Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX.

• “American labor's responses to these calls from its leaders were, in the past, understandably mostly 'rearguard' actions centered on closing tax loopholes, disincenting offshoring, and enforcing labor standards in WTO and bi-lateral trade agreements, with not much effect.”

  The Huffington Post: Leo Hindery, Jr.: China Labor -- the Pure Shame of It

• “It is more a "rearguard" action designed to allow time to do the healing.”

  Neil Grossman: Support the Economy, Push the Banks

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