Joel Salatin

From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.

American Author

Robert Harris

Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves.

British Novelist

Thomas Steinbeck

My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.

American Writer

Kate Williams

Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

British Historian

It emphasizes coordinated action, often representing solidarity or discipline.

Unity of Movement

It's sometimes used figuratively to describe an organized approach to a challenge.

Metaphorical Use

The word suggests a group so closely formed that it's hard to break through.

Impenetrability

Phalanx specifically refers to bones in fingers and toes, not other body parts.

Precision in Anatomy

In medical contexts, remember 'phalanx' is countable; you can have multiple phalanges.

Countable Bone

Phalanges also exist in the paws and hooves of certain animals.

Not Just Human

In a historical context, phalanx refers to a specific military strategy, not just any formation.

Ancient Warfare

Using 'phalanx' can invoke concepts of warfare or defense.

Militaristic Connotation

The phalanx symbolizes Greek military heritage and can represent broader ideas of combat unity.

Cultural Symbol

 weren't relaxed they wouldn't have come as close to us as they did and if they weren't relaxed the babies would disappear you wouldn't really notice the that the communication happened but you'd see the babies disappear in amongst the hood and they would form sort of like a phalanx around them with the bigger females protecting them and

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 A vampire state is the government -- -- which has been hijacked by a phalanx of bandits and crooks who use the instruments of state power to enrich themselves, their cronies, and tribesmen and exclude everybody else.

Phalanx

Unity of Movement

Metaphorical Use

Impenetrability

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