paramilitary unit

NOUN
  1. a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops)
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How To Use paramilitary unit In A Sentence

  • Noriega had become increasingly dictatorial, relied on irregular paramilitary units, and was involved in drug trafficking.
  • The group had the feel of a paramilitary unit when it used aggressive tactics to deal with the industrial disputes of the 1970s. Times, Sunday Times
  • Was this a rock group, or a paramilitary unit? Times, Sunday Times
  • Some of the dead wear green Libyan army fatigues, others the camouflage uniform of police paramilitary units. Times, Sunday Times
  • Was this a rock group, or a paramilitary unit? Times, Sunday Times
  • Some of the dead wear green Libyan army fatigues, others the camouflage uniform of police paramilitary units. Times, Sunday Times
  • Stability Unit and paramilitary units in the police force, and bring an end to police 'brutalities' in industrial disputes. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • What we have would be better described as thuggish paramilitary units occupying what they regard as hostile territory. You got served and protected #3: preemptive “reasonable force” in Blackburn, Lancashire
  • He was convoking a secret paramilitary unit called the Third Force.
  • The division's long columns of trucks and Humvee armoured vehicles avoided Iraqi army and paramilitary units as they pushed north on Thursday and Friday.
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