"armed" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Attorney General Janet Reno conceded tonight that in hindsight the Government's plan to assault the heavily armed cult near Waco, Tex., had been a mistake.
- The heavily armed black cult members had fortified their home and had become a threat to the predominantly black neighborhood.
- He issued the famous report on the Government's storming of an armed religious cult in Waco, Tex., which resulted in the departure of high-ranking Treasury officials.
- It also shows how supervising agents, knowing they had lost the element of surprise and that the heavily armed cult was awaiting them, went ahead with the raid anyway.
- They are prized by criminal gangs and armed cults, like the one whose members murdered those Federal agents in Waco, Tex.
- Not since 1985, when a police confrontation with the armed cult Move left 61 houses in flames and killed 11 people, has Philadelphia been so shaken.
- MOVE, too, was an armed cult with a history of violence.
- It recreates the War of Canudos, an incident in 19th-century Brazil in which an armed millenarian cult held off a siege by the national army for months.
- Federal officials say this slow trickle to freedom was a positive sign that the almost around-the-clock negotiations between the authorities and the heavily armed cult were making some progress.
- Others questioned how the raid could have proceeded once the agency realized it was facing such a heavily armed cult and the agents knew they could not surprise the cult members.
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