awkward squad - translation to spanish
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awkward squad - translation to spanish

The Awkward Squad; Awkward Squad
  • An artwork from Ontario, captioned "Awkward Squad. Fenian Raid, 1865."

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escuadra de torpes
squad         
  • PK]] [[general purpose machine gun]] and a [[RPK]] [[light machine gun]] in the center and two soldiers with [[AK-47]] assault rifles and one [[RPG-7]] grenade launcher on the flanks. Another soldier provides liaison or extra firepower where needed.
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MILITARY UNIT SIZE DESIGNATION
Squads; NRA Squad; Infantry squad; Squad operations; Squad (military); Sqaud
(n.) = escuadra, cuadrilla, brigada, equipo
Ex: This concept comes mainly from the military, where a designated number of troops make a squad, a platoon, a regiment, etc..
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* bomb squad = artificieros, brigada de desactivación de explosivos, brigada de desactivación de bombas
* death squad = escuadrón de la muerte
* firing squad = pelotón de fusilamiento
* shooting squad = pelotón de fusilamiento
squad         
  • PK]] [[general purpose machine gun]] and a [[RPK]] [[light machine gun]] in the center and two soldiers with [[AK-47]] assault rifles and one [[RPG-7]] grenade launcher on the flanks. Another soldier provides liaison or extra firepower where needed.
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MILITARY UNIT SIZE DESIGNATION
Squads; NRA Squad; Infantry squad; Squad operations; Squad (military); Sqaud
escuadra
pelotón
piquete

Definition

Awkward squad
·add. ·- A squad of inapt recruits assembled for special drill.

Wikipedia

Awkward squad

An awkward squad is a group of individuals, normally within an existing organisation or structure, who resist or obstruct change, either through incompetence or by deliberate association.

Examples of use of awkward squad
1. Poland has emerged as a one–nation "awkward squad" in the 27–member EU, angering the club‘s big players.
2. Morales and fellow left–wing Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez compose the awkward squad at the European Union–Latin American summit on trade, investment and other issues.
3. There was nothing in his words that will have left the sizeable conference awkward squad less inclined to inconvenience the leadership in future.
4. The NUT awkward squad may also ask why an auditing firm has been encouraged to scrutinise the academies performance when further Ofsted inspections have been postponed.
5. Yet it‘s always people like them, members of the awkward squad, singled out for prosecution when they either can‘t, or won‘t pay.