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a unit that is part of some military service
he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men
How To Use military group In A Sentence
- They downplay, or justify, the proliferation of white supremacist - tinged paramilitary groups, police violence, and racial profiling.
- Then I realized it wasn't Gantry of whom I was reminded so much as another Lewis character, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, the politician who poses as a populist, then once elected president turns the United States into a fascist dictatorship, aided by an angry, unknowing electorate and a paramilitary group called the Minute Men. Michael Winship: The Awful Price for Teaching Less Than We Know
- And another thing - again, suggested by the term 'Gauleiter', that role of 'community leadership' seems very close to the outrageously-named community representatives that proliferate in Northern Ireland - often surrogates for paramilitary groups. Never Trust a Hippy
- The troika had achieved something that no international-relief agency, no high-tech software company, no bent-for-leather military group had accomplished.
- The presence of McDonald - the so-called brigadier of the South Belfast wing of the loyalist paramilitary group - and other loyalist leaders is considered to be a significant step in building relations with republican and nationalist communities. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
- The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States. Eschaton
- The arms had been sold to a businessman; he sold them on to paramilitary groups.
- The second-largest party — a pro-military group, the National Unity Party, loyal to late strongman General Ne Win — has joined in the criticism despite being viewed as being broadly pro-establishment. Frustrations Increase After Myanmar Vote
- This policy has signified greater insecurity for women, because the so-called demobilisation of the paramilitary groups, who continue to control many regions of the country, has particularly affected women and girls," María Eugenia Ramírez of the Bogota-based Latin American Institute for Alternative Rights told IPS. AWID RSS Feed
- Death threats, allegedly from a Loyalist paramilitary group, forced Northern Ireland soccer star Neil Lennon, a Catholic, to withdraw from the international team.