"local" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The cops (local vigilantes) show up ready for a gunfight.
- Some local vigilantes put up a burning barricade against us.
- General Yitzhaki said that he could not say who might have ordered the killings but that they did not appear to be by local vigilantes.
- More recent research of the site suggests that a mass murder may have taken place against the Irish workers by local vigilantes fearful that cholera would spread.
- Thousands of local vigilantes and army units killed actual and alleged PKI members.
- They had also called in New York mobsmen, and disguised them as local vigilantes.
- Serbian officials insist that the camps were set up solely to hold prisoners of war, criminals and refugees who might otherwise be at risk from local vigilantes.
- A minor strike attempted in the Arkansas Delta was crushed by local vigilantes, resulting in the death of fifteen strikers, including several who were lynched.
- In the last year, they have joined with Zairian soldiers and local vigilantes in attacks on Zairian Tutsi.
- He was also the prime suspect in the attempted murder of a key witness in a manslaughter case against local republican vigilantes six years ago.
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