"raid" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Richard performs a commando-style raid on Eddy's house, but Eddy, anticipating this move as well, reveals to Priscilla his plan to murder her and shoot Richard as a homicidal intruder.
- That in turn sparked a police inquiry, culminating in a commando-style raid last October of Opportunity's offices and of Mr. Dantas's home in the well-to-do Ipanema section of Rio.
- In a commando-style raid five and a half years ago, David Koresh and members of his insular religious sect gave the outside world a warning about his passionate attachment to firearms and his potential for violence.
- It was not the first time that Israel seemed ready to bargain with kidnappers and then staged a commando-style raid.
- Border infringements, commando-style raids, violations of air space, shellings, and a threatening gathering and massing of armed might along the long vulnerable frontiers of the wedge-shaped territories of the tiny land.
- The leading Buenos Aires daily, La Nacion - which is generally recognised as expressing the views of the armed forces - reported that a commando-style raid had been launched at about midnight.
- The most notable offensive battle took place over Dieppe, France when an ill-fated commando-style raid was mounted there in August 1942 (Dieppe Raid).
- In a commando-style raid, members of his gang attacked the prison with rocket launchers and assault rifles, and they set fire to nearby cars in what is believed to have been intended as a distraction.
- As democratization takes hold, and as feisty local news outlets arise in previously autocratic third-world countries, the military's Special Operations Command can no longer carry out commando-style raids at will.
- He was arrested on Aug. 28, 2003, in a commando-style raid as he was just getting out of bed with his pregnant wife.
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