What's the difference between guerilla and militant?

Guerilla


Definition:

  • (a.) See Guerrilla.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Militant


Definition:

  • (a.) Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It said 70 of the killed militants were from Isis, while the other 50 it described as being aligned with the Nusra Front, the parent organisation of the Khorasan cell and al-Qaida’s preferred affiliate in Syria.
  • (2) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
  • (3) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
  • (4) But Abaaoud, the man thought to be a key planner for the group behind the Paris attacks, boasted to a niece that he had brought around 90 militants back to Europe with him.
  • (5) Although the intraoperative cytologic examination showed a picture suggestive of malignancy, including giant cells and atypical mitotic figures, the clinical and radiologic history militated against a malignant nature for the lesion, which was thus classified as a low-grade giant-cell astrocytoma.
  • (6) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
  • (7) The clash is the latest in a deadly stream of attacks since July, which officials said had already claimed the lives of at least 70 members of the security services and hundreds of PKK militants.
  • (8) Kurdish forces are also working to sever the militants’ supply lines between Syria and Iraq.
  • (9) In the clip – believed to be the first footage of a Briton fighting for the militants in Iraq rather than Syria – he urges others to take up arms and join the growing ranks of foreign fighters.
  • (10) Last week, Cohen estimated the militants were still earning “several million dollars per week from the sale of stolen and smuggled energy resources” – down on what they pulled in before the coalition air strikes, but still a substantial amount.
  • (11) Last week Isis bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud , also near Mosul, which the militant group conquered in a lightning advance last summer.
  • (12) It is one of the largest cities held by Islamic State militants and lies on the road connecting Baghdad to Mosul.
  • (13) Isis recently threatened to kill American hostages to avenge the crushing airstrikes in Iraq against militants advancing on Mount Sinjar and the Kurdish capital of Irbil.
  • (14) The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu , has vowed the militant Islamist group Hamas, blamed by Israel for the kidnapping, will "pay a heavy price".
  • (15) The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.
  • (16) Mullen said earlier this week there is a "proxy connection" between Pakistani intelligence services and the Haqqanis, meaning the militants are secretly doing the Pakistanis' bidding.
  • (17) Speaking in Washington on Thursday, the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, said the offensive underscored the growing threat posed by Isis militants – whom he referred to using the group’s Arabic acronym “Daesh”.
  • (18) Islamist militants have attacked Iraq's largest oil refinery in the city of Baiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, as Iran raised the prospect of direct military intervention to protect Shia holy sites.
  • (19) The dramatic rise of Islamic State (Isis) in Syria and Iraq is helping to tear apart the Pakistani Taliban, the beleaguered militant group beset by infighting and splits.
  • (20) A year after the establishment of the so-called caliphate by Islamic State , western governments are struggling for strategies to challenge sympathy among their citizens towards the militants.

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