"militia" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The cities faced the problem that their armies were militias, recruited from the rural population of their subject territories, but that precisely this rural population had turned against them.
- As with many yeomanry regiments of the time, it was a relatively inexperienced militia recruited from among shopkeepers and tradesmen.
- Shia formed student associations and a Shia party, Sunni began to form sectarian militias recruited from Deobandi and Ahl al-Hadith madrasahs.
- These units consisted of seven Legions of militia recruited initially from Italian colonists, but later included local Africans.
- Black Loyalists also served in guerrilla units such as the elite Black Brigade, as well as together with British troops and white Loyalist militia recruited in the colonies.
- The guerrilla group had its origins in a loose militia recruited by Portuguese industrialists to protect their interests during the war of independence.
- As the recent killings have revealed, Demarest has assembled a private militia, recruited dozens of his former colleagues to use as his personal enforcers and protectors.
- Most of Lin Hu's officers were former bandits and militia recruited earlier by Lin from the Zhuang areas of Guangdong.
- He later massacred his own shock troops, the Ikhwan (an irregular militia recruited from the main nomadic tribes), when they became a liability in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
- The core of the military itself is widely seen as little more than an ethnic militia recruited from President Deby's Zakhawa clan.
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