This allowed Greek troops to fight in the famed phalanx formation, and presented any would-be attackers with a unified front of long spears to contend with.
So imagine you're slicing a nice garlic-cheese bagel one morning, and you lacerate the distal phalanx of your pollex — in other words, you cut the tip of your thumb.
On the day of the hike, in April 2016, they ran a 60-second commercial showing the company's gray-haired chairman, backed by a phalanx of dark-suited workers, all bowing in deep contrition.
Designed to defend navy ships from anti ship missiles, helicopters, drones, and other fast-moving targets, a Phalanx unit consists of a 20mm Vulcan cannon paired with Ku-band radar system for tracking targets.
部队旨在保护海军舰艇免受反舰导弹、 直升机、 无人机和其他快速移动目标的侵害,由一门 20 毫米火神和用于跟踪目标的 Ku 波段雷达系统组成。
They had always been a clannish tribe, presenting an unbroken phalanx of overlapping shields to the world in time of stress, no matter what their private opinions of the conduct of individual kinsmen might be.
Mr Khan, a former cricket star who is campaigning for an election due in October, is holed up at his house in Lahore, surrounded by a phalanx of supporters, who forcefully resisted the police's efforts.
What it looks like I'm looking at here is potentially clubbing of the distal phalanges. It's an enlargement of the furthest part of your finger, where you actually have down sloping of the nail as well.