How To Use Guerrilla In A Sentence
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Urban guerrillas detonated a car bomb in front of the company's headquarters.
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When guerrilla or partisan warfare further exasperated him, Grant proposed radical measures.
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Tuesday, rose from humble beginnings as a peasant herdboy through stages as a teacher, political prisoner and guerrilla chieftain.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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These tenacious guerrillas come from Chechnya, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, and they use classical guerrilla hit-and-run tactics.
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According to the report, the massacre occurred after the guerrillas had tried to force the workers to stage a strike against the company.
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The conflict claims roughly four civilian lives for every soldier or alleged guerrilla killed.
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All this guerrilla artwork reflected the widespread belief that it was the IRA that had pulled off the heist.
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The accepted ratio of government forces to guerrillas is often cited as 10:1.
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Several small actions took place - street theatre, guerrilla gardening, sitdowns.
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Heavy fighting has been going on after the guerrillas had launched their offensive.
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bushwhacking guerrillas attacking from ambush
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Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.
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The guerrillas raided banks and destroyed a police barracks and an electricity substation.
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The majority of guerrilla attacks on US occupation forces have been carried out by remotely detonated bombs or rocket-propelled grenades.
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But these options may not obtain and a colonial general will often have to cope as best he can with a variety of guerrilla warfare.
Warfare in the Twentieth Century
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The guerrillas were said to be operating from bases inside the war zone.
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Planes bombed the guerrilla positions yesterday in an attempt to flush out snipers from underground tunnels.
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Stock villains tend to be swarthy, towel-headed terrorists or slit-eyed, buck-toothed guerrillas.
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Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.
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The guerrillas shot down one aeroplane and captured the pilot.
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The rally had been organized to mourn the guerrillas killed on the border on May 5.
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When they become guerrillas the women set themselves free from patriarchal bonds.
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They had opened a new chapter in the history of Latin America through guerrilla warfare.
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State news agency MIA said the guerrillas were opening fire from a Tetovo suburb.
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But this week, the president embarked on a counterattack, using one of the guerrillas' favorite weapons: the media.
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In 1969, they participated as observers in a world congress of the United Secretariat, which decided to pursue a rural guerrilla tactic in Latin America.
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Years earlier he had been linked by local police to Moro guerrillas, and was thrown out of Zamboanga College, in Mindanao, where he had studied criminology.
Jihadists in Paradise
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Urban guerrillas detonated a car bomb in front of the company's headquarters.
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It was like urban guerrilla warfare.
Times, Sunday Times
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Things were going poorly — Vietnamese guerrillas, or Vietminh, held the upper hand — and at a strategy session in Saigon the French commander, Gen. Henri Navarre, outlined his latest plan.
The French Connection
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Until five years ago nobody would come here because of the guerrillas, " said Michael McMurdo, a New York City-trained chef who recently opened a Mexican restaurant, Agave Azul, in Santa Marta.
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The democratic approach inherent in the guerrilla movement would triumph ultimately.
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In a number of irregular conflicts, guerrillas and government forces alike regarded an unwillingness to help as aiding and abetting the enemy.
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Elite Republican Guard troops deployed tanks and heavy artillery against lightly armed guerrilla units.
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The Portuguese called the guerrillas turras or banditos, while the MPLA guerrillas denoted the Portuguese with the shortened word tugas.
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The guerrillas had stirred my gravest anxiety, but little did I know about the hundred additional worrisome things until I debarked down here.
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ISTANBUL - Ten Turkish policemen were wounded when four suspected leftist guerrillas fired rockets at their bus in Istanbul, in a buildup of violence towards the Kurdish Nowrouz spring festival.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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As the new boss, Mr. Jimenez will undoubtedly become the main target for the U.S.-trained Colombian army's antiguerrilla groups as they continue to hunt down and kill FARC guerrillas and leaders of other illegal groups.
Colombia Marxist Rebels Pick New Leader
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Rebels have been warning of a turn to guerrilla warfare.
Times, Sunday Times
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The jungled mountains of western Colombia, where the drugs are produced and guerrillas operate, look an awful lot like Vietnam's Central Highlands.
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Initially, they formed insurgent groups to wage guerrilla warfare for as long as seven years.
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During the war, he learned the guerrilla tactics of the bushwhackers, jayhawkers and other insurgency groups who tried, by any means, to halt the progress of Union forces.
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During the retreat a guerrilla resistance force was organized to conduct sabotage, operating behind enemy lines.
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But these options may not obtain and a colonial general will often have to cope as best he can with a variety of guerrilla warfare.
Warfare in the Twentieth Century
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The reporter-photographer team that went to Africa worked in an ujamaa village in Tanzania and traveled with guerrillas in the liberated zones of Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese Guinea).
Lns
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The rival guerrilla groups had agreed to stop fighting and settle their differences peaceably.
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Like Grandma, the two guerrillas had taken revolutionary names to bolster their morale and, in the advent of capture, to shield their villages and families from reprisals.
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Our growing military engagement in Guatemala, Cuba, and Vietnam created a counter-insurgency mentality among political and military leaders who hoped to stifle spreading "brushfire" wars through the deployment of counter-guerrilla forces of their own.
A Special Supplement: Anthropology on the Warpath in Thailand
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The attacks demonstrate that the guerrilla war is still being waged fiercely.
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Helicopter gunships strafed the area where the guerrilla group was fleeing.
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We are trained for guerrilla street war.
Times, Sunday Times
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This summer the bombing was more intensive than ever in all the rebel areas, according to what Jean-Pierre heard from the guerrillas.
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Detailed plans for Operation Mayibuye, an outline for guerrilla warfare and foreign intervention, were revealed.
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It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals.
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Pressure for his resignation has been building since Monday, when a government commission blamed Mr. Olmert for what it called his severe failures during Israel's war against Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas last summer.
CNN Transcript May 2, 2007
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Instead, like a guerrilla force, they will have to find ways to catch their powerful opponents off their guard.
Times, Sunday Times
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The guerrillas and other forces are rejecting such participation, and the question is whether they can win over the generality to their rejectionist point of view.
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Jobless idlers are easy targets for guerrilla leaders who want to add to their numbers.
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Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.
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Their aim was to block guerrilla supply lines.
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The guerrillas are continuing to recruit minors, and they carry out the death penalty.
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He wasn't a rabble-rouser, he wasn't a fiery speaker, he wasn't a mobiliser of large crowds, and he certainly wasn't a guerrilla.
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The greater likelihood is that in a war the Islamists would fight asymmetrically, with guerrilla tactics.
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The army and Marine Corps began to form and train units for irregular or guerrilla war operations.
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The guerrilla war will be fought by oldfashioned rent-a-mob 'protesters'.
The Sun
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The growth in guerrilla attack frequency and effectiveness slows down repairs, training, and population support.
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Guerrillas fired five rockets at the capital yesterday, killing 23 people.
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I was not satisfied that any general political opinion could be imputed to him on the lines of his being on the side of law and order and against the ‘dark forces’ of guerrillas and criminal gangs.
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The guerrillas still numbered in the hundreds, not thousands as they claim, he added.
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For many years, my husband and my cleaner have conducted guerrilla warfare against me about our old brick kitchen floor.
Times, Sunday Times
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But these options may not obtain and a colonial general will often have to cope as best he can with a variety of guerrilla warfare.
Warfare in the Twentieth Century
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Moderate Kosovan leaders such as Ibrahim Rugova have condemned the guerrillas for damaging the quest for independence.
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He was a man loyal to his nation who takes the weapons in his hands and dies at the hands of the antiguerrilla troops trained by the Pentagon.
UNIVERSITY SPEECH BLASTS CPR BETRAYAL
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There are two types: the former guerrilla fighters, known as the mujahedin, who battled the Soviets in the 1980s from the mountain hide-outs, and the Afghans who were sent after their brethren as soldiers in the old Soviet-backed Afghanistan army.
Marine Corps Times - News
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He has set up a culinary institute to train former guerrillas, wounded soldiers and displaced rural Colombians.
Times, Sunday Times
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Guerrilla groups have accepted the government's offer of amnesty and have begun demobilizing.
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Why his demential obsession for this guerrilla organization?
Is The FARC A terrorist organisation ?
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They put up an effective defence against the guerrilla forces.
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As a guerrilla force, the Vietminh enjoyed the edge in motivation and in knowledge of terrain.
The French Connection
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The evidence pointed to a sharp decline in guerrilla prowess.
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So some guerrillas came and ped a bench outside this small shack.
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Until five years ago nobody would come here because of the guerrillas, " said Michael McMurdo, a New York City-trained chef who recently opened a Mexican restaurant, Agave Azul, in Santa Marta.
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The guerrillas were said to be operating from bases inside the war zone.
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Four Western tourists held by armed guerrillas in Kashmir began their seventh month in captivity today.
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Guerrillas fired five rockets at the capital yesterday, killing 23 people.
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But rural development has long been a staple of counterinsurgency efforts in predominantly agricultural economies facing guerrilla wars.
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But the hole had its dangers; if the pot broke or cracked, the guerrilla could be attacked by poisonous spiders or snakes.
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In the streets of the steamy capital, lifelike effigies of the 62-year-old former guerrilla leader are paraded around by supporters seeking votes.
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Russian news agencies said the gunships pounded guerrilla hideouts in the region's mountainous south, killing at least a dozen people.
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Bushwhacking was a form of guerrilla warfare during the American Civil War that was particularly prevalent in rural areas where there were sharp divisions between those favoring the Union and Confederacy in the conflict.
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Three other guards at the prison near Baghdad were arraigned on more serious charges as the abuse scandal and guerrilla violence increased pressure on Washington to hand over real power to Iraqis on June 30.
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A small band of guerrillas has blown up a train in the mountains.
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The guerrilla campaign for union with Greece had its share of shameful episodes on both sides.
Times, Sunday Times
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In November, the Indian government announced that military operations against the guerrilla groups were unilaterally halted.
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Here was a repeat of the French-Algerian War, which inevitably led to torture and crimes by both the French and the Algerian guerrillas.
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Of course the Résistance was militarily ineffectual from a conventional standpoint: It was a guerrilla movement, with a large civil component that emphasised civil desobedience and sabotage.
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Here's one for luck, a deadly nicotine tea used for the mass destruction of aphids by guerrilla gardeners.
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While in the open desert the tank is king, in the confines of city streets the guerrilla fighter comes into his own.
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We can imagine it as the creation of one of the psychiatric patients in The Atrocity Exhibition, the future image guerrillas of this Third World War: ‘these bizarre images, with their fusion of Eniwetok and Luna Park, Freud and Elizabeth Taylor’ (AT 7).
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He had been held a prisoner by the guerrillas.
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The arched corridor contained hidden tunnels dug by rebels from the second century AD as they waged guerrilla warfare against the Romans.
Times, Sunday Times
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Maoist guerrilla-based insurgency [Pushpa Kamal DAHAL, also known as PRAHANDA, chairman; Dr. Baburam BHATTARAI, from Communist Party of Nepal/Maoist, chief negotiator]; numerous small, left-leaning student groups in the capital; several small, radical Nepalese antimonarchist groups
The 2005 CIA World Factbook
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He briefly dissolved Congress in 1992 to successfully fight two guerrilla insurgencies that had thrown the country into chaos.
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The third tale speaks of El Chivo, a bitter ex-guerrilla-turned-hit man, who is given a contract to kill a wealthy businessman.
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As the police visibly tighten the noose around the mansion, the guerrillas respond with rhetoric and warning bursts of gunfire.
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That year, it ambushed an elite antiguerrilla battalion, capturing or killing most of its 154 men.
Rebels Flail in Colombia
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Again, there is not very much wrong with that - the police have primacy to enforce the law while the army, backed by the air force, flush the guerrillas out into the open.
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The three were captured after their plane crash-landed in a guerrilla-controlled region.
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This conflict pitted guerrilla forces against the national government.
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They want to flush out the Resistance workers and the guerrillas - as well as the deserters from their own army.
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Guerrillas fired five rockets at the capital yesterday, killing 23 people.
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Guerrillas dynamited the mayor's mansion in Ramadi.
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After about three months of heavy training we were a disciplined force of guerrilla fighters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Guerrillas can lose battle after battle and yet still win the war, because guerrilla warfare is a form of attrition.
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Now, as an Al Qaeda field commander sporting a bandolier of bullets, he is threatening the United States and has been hailed by a militant Web site as a veteran guerrilla and "a fomenter of war.
News about one freed Guantanamo Bay prisoner that you won't find reported on the BBC
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A U. N.-backed war-crimes tribunal is now going after alleged war criminals -- most recently Taylor himself, indicted last month on charges that he'd backed drug-crazed guerrillas in return for access to rebel-dug Sierra Leonean diamonds.
Days Of Hope, Days Of Fear
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The division of the four-hour subtitled colossus into two feature length halves, sees the first part deal with Che and the Castro brothers 'successful guerrilla campaign to overthrow the Cuban dictatorship in the early' 60s.
Queen's Journal: Latest stories
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Mr. Santos's decision to comply with FARC's demands for the hostage releases was fustigated by his predecessor, former President Alvaro Uribe, who said that giving the guerrillas room would help them reinforce their operations.
Colombia's FARC Releases Hostages
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The second part is outright guerrilla warfare.
Times, Sunday Times
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A guerrilla soldier clung stubbornly to our clothesline pole, his foot trapped in the maw of my father's security dog, a Ridgeback.
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Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.
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Your Money columnist Peter Siris is an investment manager at Guerrilla Capital in Manhattan.
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By their guerrilla activities they hoped to generate a revolt against Rome, thereby hastening the coming of the Kingdom.
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The guerrillas released a hostage on Monday and promised that two more would be released before the talks.
Times, Sunday Times
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George Washington Carver was born into slavery during the Civil War, in the midst of bloody guerrilla warfare in Missouri .
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For example, in two communications, one targeting potential insurgent recruits and one active guerrillas, both should discourage resistance.
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Years of military operations in Iraq have led many in the Pentagon to see antiguerrilla operations and smaller conflicts as the fights of the future.
Defense Firms Press for Arms Investment
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That's all the stuff you need in an open country when you are faced with a guerrilla army.
The Sun
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One can only surmise it reflects a continuation of interventionist policies in foreign conflicts, where their presence will be of questionable value as guerrilla warfare becomes commonplace.
Times, Sunday Times
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Garibaldi was always or almost always victorious (in reality he fought brilliant guerrilla skirmishes which piety later turned into vast and tidy battles); he was the first to be called Il Duce, a pompous nineteenth-century opera libretto title, by antonomasia (Mussolini had been called Il Duce by his socialist followers before 1914 and took the title with him to the Fascist party).
The Not So Great Dictator
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The struggle in Chocó is but one stage on which the guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries are fighting their war.
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The guerrillas would foray into Algeria, then flee back into Tunisia.
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And guerrilla wars are notoriously hard to win.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the face behind the mask resembles a gangster as much as a guerrilla, Jesse James as much as Robin Hood.
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Once those helicopters got into the air, they would be able to strafe the guerrillas almost at leisure.
KARA KUSH
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It was not examined seriously at West Point or the Army War College, and the U.S. military jettisoned just about anything to do with counterinsurgency—all those counterguerrilla, “little-war” tactics and doctrines so romantically invoked during the Kennedy years.
Magic and Mayhem
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Thus, the guerrillas would prove a catalyst of revolutionary dissolution and the regime would crumble.
Warfare in the Twentieth Century
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His guerrillas defeated the colonial army in 1954.
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Did those words imply a halt to recruiting and training guerrillas, as well as to shooting and bombing?
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One of the important documents of the intraparty debate on renovation vs. orthodoxy that finally split the PCV was a short book on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia by a former guerrilla leader, Teodoro Petkoff, who was denounced in Pravda just before the PCV split and later by Leonid Brezhnev, in his speech to the Twenty-fourth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, for "nationalist tendencies [with] an anti-soviet character.
Carnival in Caracas
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We are idealists, anarchists, guerrilla tacticians, pranksters, neo-Luddites, poets, philosophers and punks.
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As long as populations are menaced by banditry, civil war, guerrilla campaigns, and counter-insurgency by beleaguered governments, they cannot be secure.
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Rebels have been warning of a turn to guerrilla warfare.
Times, Sunday Times
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The guerrillas would fight to the bitter end, he said, in order to achieve their main goal.
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They were abducted by the secessionist guerrilla group they went to interview.
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Last night Aída had grilled them over the fire in the hut, and the guerrillas ate most of them.
A KING'S RANSOM
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MUJAHEDIN: Different groups of mujahedin - Muslim guerrilla fighters - were supported by among others the United States, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to fight against the USSR in Afghanistan
The Cutting Edge
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MUJAHEDIN: Different groups of mujahedin - Muslim guerrilla fighters - were supported by among others the United States, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to fight against the USSR in Afghanistan (1979-89).
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Mr. Cano's death could pose serious succession problems for the guerrillas, who are grouped in dozens of semi-independent "fronts," or units, throughout the country.
Colombia Officials Say Top FARC Leader Is Killed in Bombing
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These base camps were used by the PKK guerrillas to make forays into Turkey.
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Although fierce warriors, they were untutored in guerrilla warfare and fought from fixed fortresses, which American artillery and infantry invariably overwhelmed.
An Insurgency and Its Lessons
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It was a time of guerrilla war, when the local conflicts over land and water resources that emerge in any rural setting threatened to brand villagers as rabble-rousers.
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As against these, the stupendous increase in the destructiveness of air power has been of limited utility in guerrilla war.
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They have been selected on the basis of higher educational ability and physical toughness, and their regime includes hostage release operations, urban and guerrilla warfare.
Times, Sunday Times
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But they also learn the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare.
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Even so, some fear that the situation might degenerate into a quagmire in which the rebels resort to protracted guerrilla warfare.
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The rally had been organized to mourn the guerrillas killed on the border on May 5.
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The guerrillas inflicted heavy casualties on the local population.
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The government's objective is to pacify violent regions and put Colombia on a path to peace by blunting the appeal of a guerrilla group that uses the banner of land reform to justify its struggle.
Colombia hoping land reform efforts will help sow peace
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Guerrillas struck a U.N. camp, killing 75.
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The Silures took a lot longer to defeat - there was a 25-year guerrilla war including the defeat of a legion.'
Early Welsh warriors in red who once defeated the mighty Romans
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In Tikrit, guerrillas detonated two car bombs in an attack on a police checkpoint.
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Several years of counter-insurgency drives destroyed the remaining guerrilla bases.
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Vast, mountainous, woody, and lightly populated, Algeria offered terrain favorable to guerrilla warfare.
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Somehow news correspondents covering the administration, including me, never grasped the full extent of the guerrilla war within the administration.
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Cosmonautic flight group at the famous railroad guerrilla force hometown - Shandong Zaozhuang.
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Students, former guerrilla fighters, police and soldiers took to the streets in a jubilant parade.
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The final several months of the Pacific war saw American regulars and Filipino guerrillas steadily reducing the area controlled by the Japanese.
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Instead, terrorist and guerrilla killings follow an L-shaped power law curve.
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When troops stormed the building, 129 hostages and 41 guerrillas were killed.
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These include 22 mobile "antiguerrilla" brigades of 2,000 men each, a helicopter aviation brigade, and an elite 1,200-strong Special Forces unit, modeled on the U.S. military.
Rebels Flail in Colombia
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Whether as collective green graffiti or as an attempt to reclaim the neighborhood and make improvements for all, guerrilla gardening is a form of eco-activism that is catching on despite its controversial methods.
GUERILLA GARDENING: Strategies for Greening the Hood | Inhabitat
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Like the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Palestinian militants and the forces of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, many of these groups underwent guerrilla training in camps in Libya.
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If you use terms like militants, insurgents, guerrillas, you are not saying these people are evil.
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The guerrilla army has been fighting since 1975 for independence for Cabinda, which is wedged between Zaire and Congo and is rich in petroleum and other natural resources.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Although the Hmong were effective at guerrilla-style hit-and-run actions, they were ill prepared to conduct a static defense against overwhelming odds.
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First, he allowed Palestinians in Gaza to organize irregular guerrilla units called fedayeen—“self-sacrificers.”
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
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Palestinian guerrillas
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The death squad units utilised turned African National Congress guerrillas, known as "askaris".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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At present guerrilla activity was reported in Kyongji province, north and south Chungchong provinces and on the island of Cheju.
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In February 1947, following the Battle of Hanoi, France reoccupied Hanoi and the Viet Minh once again assumed the position of guerrillas, fighting in the mountains.
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They were protected by armed guerrillas and camouflaged beneath tropical leaves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.
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According to Canadian deputy commander Colonel Fred Lewis, the Taliban appear to be concentrating forces and digging in defences - moving to what he called "semi-conventional" combat, compared to guerrilla-style tactics employed before.
The challenge of reality
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The latter returned fire, inflicting some casualties on the guerrillas.
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In a separate incident, guerrillas killed a police lieutenant in the same city.
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But it can also be argued, as Radosh does not, that the guerrillas were simply too factionalized and ideologically divided to animate a mass movement.
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Delegates also discussed transforming them from a guerrilla force into a regular army.
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Historically the territory of bullfighters, bandits, guerrillas and smugglers, this rocky region was doubtless seen by Welles as more akin to his buccaneering spirit than some genteel churchyard.
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The Fat Underground then planned several guerrilla theater actions against the diet industry.
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Somehow news correspondents covering the administration, including me, never grasped the full extent of the guerrilla war within the administration.
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The hapless milquetoast is wanted for being an" alien" and he is captured by a band of guerrillas who want to recruit him to their cause.
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The relative decline in guerrilla and terror activity has been achieved by curfews and closures, by imprisoning more than two million people in their homes without work or food for protracted periods of time.
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In an interview before leaving the U.S., Mr. Sangay revealed that his father left the monkhood to join Tibetan guerrillas fighting Chinese troops who entered Tibet in 1950, and was shot in the leg while helping to provide security for the escaping Dalai Lama.
Tibetan Exiles Swear In New Leader
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The guerrillas shot down one aeroplane and captured the pilot.
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Apparently, this is equally true among guerrillas and other irregulars.
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Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has more than just extended amnesty for "demobilized" guerrillas; he's also given them jobs in the army.
There Is a Military Solution to Terror
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Chief Yang. You did deserve to be called the crack shot in the guerrilla warfare days.
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For many years, my husband and my cleaner have conducted guerrilla warfare against me about our old brick kitchen floor.
Times, Sunday Times
