(1) Welcome to Calabria #gestapo#ss#army#military#guerilla#warrior.” “It was not my intention to offend anyone,” he inevitably added later.
(2) Justice Department representatives told one congressional aide that Swartz' Guerilla Open Access Manifesto was being used to establish "malicious intent" to illegally download large amounts of documents.
(3) • Cables from the US ambassador in Kenya sent in 2008 show that the Bush administration was consulted regularly over Nairobi's arming of the Sudanese guerillas, the SPLA .
(4) There has been little public debate on how the legislative programme would work, without imposing a huge load on the Commons timetable for years, and reports last week suggested that pro-European MPs in the Commons might, in the event of a Brexit vote, seek to run a “guerilla campaign” to minimise the number of EU laws from which the UK would withdraw.
(5) In the United States, in 1999, a woman known to her friends and neighbours as Sara Jane Olson living with her family in Minnesota, suddenly found herself arrested for being a member nearly 30 years earlier of the urban guerilla group, the Symbionese Liberation Army – the crew that kidnapped Patty Hearst.
(6) Neutralise the opposition Lobbyists see their battles with opposition activists as "guerilla warfare".
(7) The Bitcoin network is structured like a guerilla movement: it is decentralised, controlled by its users rather than governments.
(8) There were still many problems, not least the poverty affecting half the population, acute degrees of inequality, lingering guerilla conflicts, and a worrying number of kidnappings.
(9) It surely ruined several Valentine's Day plans, but for the few hundred people who somehow found themselves at the latest of Prince's London guerilla gigs, it was worth sacrificing the possible loss of a future spouse for something much more important.
(10) But the US government is suspicious that some of his donations, ostensibly for the rehabilitation of former guerilla fighters, may have found their way to the Tamil Tigers.
(11) The report quotes a source as saying the intention would be to avoid embroiling Lebanon in any military action taken by the Shia group, which has sent guerillas to fight alongside government forces in Syria.
(12) Senior generals have vowed their allegiance to him and have refused to salute Tsvangirai since he became prime minister in 2009, arguing he did not take part in the guerilla war that ended colonial rule and gave Mugabe power in 1980.
(13) The areas of Aleppo controlled by rebel forces The battle for the central city is symbolically important for the guerilla force, which now claims to be in effective control of more than 60% of Aleppo.
(14) Free Syria Army officials in southern Turkey say there are at least four groups not aligned to them who are fighting regime forces, a Libyan guerilla brigade among them, although the actual number is likely to be higher.
(15) Aleppo is now in virtual lockdown ahead of what is expected to be an imminent showdown between loyalist forces and opposition guerillas.
(16) Fighting continued in Syria's two biggest cities, with suburbs of Aleppo again seeing pitched battles between regime forces backed by heavy artillery in the west of the city and guerilla forces in the east.
(17) It is not to be confused with a guerilla war of national liberation.
(18) There are far fewer Yazidis on Mount Sinjar than previously feared,” Kirby said, crediting “the success of the humanitarian air drops, air strikes on [Isis] targets, the efforts of the Peshmerga [Kurdish guerillas] and the ability of thousands of Yazidis to evacuate from the mountain each night over the last several days”.
(19) Matorga Mission is in the Beira Corridor and is guarded by Zimbabwean soldiers as there are dangers of Renamo guerilla raids.
(20) Although some were Mau Mau guerillas, many were victims of collective punishment that colonial authorities imposed on large areas of the country.
Guerrilla
Definition:
(n.) An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.
(n.) One who carries on, or assists in carrying on, irregular warfare; especially, a member of an independent band engaged in predatory excursions in war time.
(a.) Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare.
Example Sentences:
(1) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(2) Their brief was to eradicate cross-border raids by Palestinian fedayeen (guerrillas), yet many felt the overzealous Sharon was becoming a law unto himself.
(3) His political activism earned him a 10-year jail term for "subversive speech", after which he fled to neighbouring Mozambique to lead guerrilla forces in a protracted war against Ian Smith's government that left 27,000 dead.
(4) Dubbed the Switzerland of South America for its relative wealth and stability, its image would be shaken up with a former guerrilla and self-described "hot head" in charge.
(5) One of the employees, Lucía Topolansky, had tipped off the “Tupas” that the bank was doing illegal currency deals; her twin sister, Maria Elia, was one of the guerrillas who conducted the raid.
(6) The jailed Kurdish guerrillas' leader, Abdullah Öcalan , has used the Kurdish new year celebrations to call a ceasefire in the 30-year war with the Turkish state in the biggest boost to an incipient peace process in years.
(7) He travelled to China and wrote a book about his adventures, and he also visited Guatemala and wrote about the guerrillas, in Guatemala, País Ocupado (1967).
(8) Neither the guerrillas nor the army are saints here, but both had actually bent from their initial positions.
(9) This project in Ciudad Bolívar is run by the mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, who was also a guerrilla with M-19 and was then elected, in 2011, as the representative of a leftwing alliance called Progresistas.
(10) This time, however, her home was not under threat from Khmer Rouge guerrillas, but was instead demolished by armed construction workers, hired by a land development corporation to carry out one of the capital's most ambitious new property developments.
(11) The title came from an incident in 1975 when, as a young housewife in Salisbury, the capital of white-run Rhodesia, she made dinner at her home for a white liberal friend and Mugabe, then a fugitive guerrilla leader.
(12) The veteran had made his name in El Salvador almost 20 years earlier as head of a US group of special forces advisers who were training and funding the Salvadoran military to fight the FNLM guerrilla insurgency.
(13) The Conservatives last week turned to M&C Saatchi to reinvigorate their election campaign after two much- lampooned and spoofed efforts, while the launch of a guerrilla ad campaign, positioning Labour and the Tories as failed political facsimiles, is thought to have helped the Lib Dems.
(14) In a statement read after the deal was announced Uribe said it would “generate new violence” in the country and criticized the fact that it puts the guerrillas and army soldiers on the same level.
(15) Though he admits being involved in some "action" on the streets back in the UK, in Syria Abu Jamal's weapon of choice is a "Klash", the AK-47 assault rifle favoured by guerrilla groups around the world.
(16) The agents were waiting for the arrival of a flight from San Vicente del Caguán, a cattle-ranching town in the sweltering southern lowlands, the largest town in a region dominated by the country's most powerful guerrilla army - the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).
(17) Its campaign would take two main forms: guerrilla wars such as that in Afghanistan and a series of spectacular and violent actions that would radicalise and mobilise all those who had hitherto shunned the call to arms, eventually provoking a mass uprising that would lead to a new era for the world's Muslims.
(18) But on the morning of 26 March 1996, as his team was preparing to start clearance work in a village in the province of Siem Reap, a group of 30 armed Khmer Rouge guerrillas emerged from the nearby forest.
(19) Forced to retreat, Kabila and his friends turned to the Cubans, and Che Guevara arrived on the Tanzanian-Congo border with a small contingent of guerrilla fighters in April 1965; Guevara recorded that Kabila "made an excellent impression", though he subsequently reconsidered this view.
(20) 2 January 2009: The military says Sri Lankan forces have entered the guerrillas' de facto capital, Kilinochchi, predicting it will fall within hours.