"rifle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the company supplied ornate guns and rifles to various Indian Princes.
- Missionaries such as Livingstone were unpopular with the Boers, in Livingstone's case because he was believed to have supplied rifles and ammunition to the Kwêna.
- Early in 1994, Croatia's President, Franjo Tudjman, informed American diplomats that Teheran was offering to supply rifles, ammunition, mortars, antitank weapons and shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles through Croatia to Bosnia.
- On May 18, President Lincoln supplied rifles - nicknamed "Lincoln guns" - for the venture.
- The disclosure today focused new attention on the charges by Government critics like Nico Basson, a former army major who alleged that the South African military supplied automatic rifles to Inkatha supporters for use in their fights with congress supporters.
- After months of internal debate, the Bush Administration has decided to seek Congressional backing for a covert program to supply rifles and other weapons to non-Communist Cambodian guerrillas, Administration officials said today.
- Quandt's businesses supplied ammunition, rifles, artillery and batteries, using slave labourers from concentration camps in at least three factories.
- In due course, as the Guard demonstrated its political and military reliability, the Kenya Government supplied shotguns and rifles to the Guard.
- In the Great War, the U.S. supplied rifles and machine guns to Ireland; the Pacific War was triggered by the U.S. discovery of Japanese supplies to British Columbia; and in the Second Great War, the British did the same for Canada and Newfoundland.
- According to a judicial inquest last year, Vlakplaas operatives supplied automatic rifles, rocket-launchers and grenades to the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party for its war against Mr. Mandela's organization, the African National Congress.
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