"band" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Both are teaching trades to young people and incidentally giving them an opportunity to meet one another in the flesh instead of in the demonologies of the paramilitary bands of both sides.
- Three human rights organizations have charged that the Haitian Government has flouted its commitment to democratic change by failing to stop widespread political violence and intimidation by the army and private paramilitary bands.
- St. Marc and its military and police commanders have long been associated with an abundant traffic in contraband run with the assistance of paramilitary bands of thugs like the Sann Mamans, observers here said.
- And Zeljko Raznatovic, known as Arkan, is seeking recruits in prisons in Yugoslavia to augment his paramilitary band in Kosovo, the British said.
- Many stateless paramilitary bands lacking any coherent ideology fought these forces and each other in what frequently seemed a political free-for-all.
- Within the framework of this program, the civilian paramilitary bands were renamed "civilian self-defense patrols" (PAC), and the army began conscripting large portions of the rural civilian population into the militias.
- Many paramilitary bands have since submitted to Armenian control, but the largest faction, the Armenian National Army, with about 5,000 members, has remained defiant.
- Global dangers increasingly lie in paramilitary bands and guerrilla tactics as opposed to conventional, massed armies, the new strategists contend.
- Since a paramilitary band of Government supporters killed 45 Zapatista sympathizers in December 1997, Zapatista leaders had severed contact with the outside world.
- Recent events in Somalia, Kosovo, Chechnya and Afghanistan show that the new global threat is not conventionally massed national armies but what one study calls "ethnonationalist paramilitary bands, organized in small, dispersed units."
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