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  • How could we know if they were affiliated with a Taliban militia group or sworn by some tribal blood pact to inform the Taliban leaders of anything suspicious-looking they found in the mountains?†   (source)
  • Fearing a bread riot, city authorities called out the militia.†   (source)
  • Most of them just look like indolent Third World militia the world over.†   (source)
  • They had just laughed it off as one of those militia freaks.†   (source)
  • They shot each other over disagreements in the playground, they threatened the teachers if they received low grades on examinations, and one of them, a third-year student at La Salle Academy and a retired colonel in the militia, shot and killed Brother Juan Eremita, Prefect of the Community, because he said in catechism class that God was a full-fledged member of the Conservative Party.†   (source)
  • After all, my grandfather is head of the militia.†   (source)
  • An aging Mobutu supported Hutu militias in the eastern districts of his country and in Rwanda, militias that ultimately contributed to the Rwandan genocide.†   (source)
  • They decided they had to warn the communities surrounding Boston that the British were on their way, so that local militia could be roused to meet them.†   (source)
  • In Switzerland, every adult male is issued an assault rifle for militia duty and is allowed to keep the gun at home.†   (source)
  • Militias consider it risky to engage in firefights with other gunmen, so instead they assault civilians.†   (source)
  • Enemy militia shot at the helicopters.†   (source)
  • They joined forces with the Northern Alliance in the north of Afghanistan and a ragtag militia in the south led by a Pashtun tribal leader named Hamid Karzai, who would become the first president of Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • The Toyota passed through six militia checkpoints before entering Waziristan proper.†   (source)
  • Wait, wait, 120,000 militia and — SONG.†   (source)
  • The Colonel and his brigade of Confederate soldiers and militia formed an impassable battery a seven guns across the road.†   (source)
  • Bachelli was lost in the memory of boarding his troop ship in Naples in 1934; he was a young officer again in the 230th Legion of the National Fascist Militia, off to fight for Il Duce, off to capture Abyssinia, off to expunge the shame of being defeated at the battle of Adowa by Emperor Menelik in 1896.†   (source)
  • He took a leading part in organizing a militia unit, the Kentish Guards, only to be told that his stiff leg disqualified him from being an officer.†   (source)
  • A volunteer militia trained in the city square with rifles that had no bullets.†   (source)
  • The company went under in six months, and several years later some members of the "people's militia" in Hacker Republic, who did not easily forget an enemy, were still haunting the former CEO.†   (source)
  • Here, on this planet, the Seekers had become practically a… militia–my new brain supplied the term for the unfamiliar concept.†   (source)
  • Native Taliban forces mingle with foreign al Qaeda fighters, while mujahedeen militias also operate in the region.†   (source)
  • They were able to push forward on a broad front, mopping up little bands of our militia here and there, and looting as they liked, and meeting nothing to delay them seriously until they were twenty-five miles or more into civilized parts.†   (source)
  • Many companies of troops and militia were hurrying to their posts, but there also were brawls, untold looters, and some who chose to greet Prusias's arrival with doomed, drunken revelry.†   (source)
  • It seemed possible that it had already been defeated by the Hutu militias and that Bujumbura was even now a graveyard of Tutsis.†   (source)
  • Tens of thousands of Cuban militia have taken up positions to contain the rebel advance.†   (source)
  • These people constitute a national guard, a ready militia of language watchdogs who believe that English teachers are shirking their duty and that newspapers don't set their language standards nearly high enough.†   (source)
  • He was too old to go fight in the War of the Sixties, but they made him a general in the local militia.†   (source)
  • Gedney, Meade, appearing in full dress uniforms, and their lawyer, retired militia general Mark Isham, sat at a table near the far wall.†   (source)
  • Alessandro would have to weave through German, Austrian, and Italian armies, border guards, militia, police, and districts where strangers were both detested and unknown.†   (source)
  • The local militia and Federal troops were called in to quell this unplanned and unrehearsed insurrection.†   (source)
  • Professional, disciplined armies, rather than citizen-armies (militias), are used when there are frequent wars.†   (source)
  • Suddenly a dark-haired man, a member of Ten-Towns' Militia, Regis supposed, entered the alley and spotted the halfling.†   (source)
  • Militia would not stop old Bobby Lee.†   (source)
  • Nobody told them to, nobody led them, nobody gave orders; Finn never had chance to control his half-trained disorderly militia.†   (source)
  • He was a Maronite, a former member of the Lebanese Forces Christian militia, and a longtime contract employee of the Office.†   (source)
  • Militias.†   (source)
  • JUDGE Well—he was made an Honorary Colonel in our State Militia.†   (source)
  • Thus she did not quite believe in the war, not even when Troop C, our militia cavalry, was called out, loaded its horses on a train, and set out for the open world.†   (source)
  • The neighboring yard was used by the workers' militia as an assembly point, something between a Red Cross post and a soup kitchen.†   (source)
  • Joel went, in all, three times to the militia's encampment on the Bayou Pierre, the last time on the day before the trial was to begin.†   (source)
  • "Telephone the governor, call out the militia," cried Teece.†   (source)
  • Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia
  • The state militias contributed greatly to America's success during the Revolutionary War.
  • And when soldiers from a rival militia capture these boys, they torture them.†   (source)
  • They were two Wethersfield men returned from Massachusetts with the detachment of militia.†   (source)
  • A young militia soldier was checking tickets at the bus door.†   (source)
  • I wound up next to a militia boy from Connecticut.†   (source)
  • Like it missed when Aidid's militia massed to attack us at Pasha.†   (source)
  • The local militia leaders weren't alerted.†   (source)
  • A Hutu militia group called FNL, a branch of PALIPEHUTU, had waylaid it.†   (source)
  • General Hill says he expects no opposition but perhaps some local militia, with shotguns and such.†   (source)
  • Riders galloped off to Connecticut and New Jersey to spread the news and "hurry on the militia."†   (source)
  • The militia would fight for their common liberties.†   (source)
  • He talked about the need for money for overcoats for the militia.†   (source)
  • This culture of brutality spread from militia to militia, from tribe to tribe.†   (source)
  • General David Wooster was head of the Connecticut militia.†   (source)
  • Captain Jack Jouett of the Virginia militia had made a wild, forty-mile ride through the night.†   (source)
  • So, what good is a militia if the attack comes at night?†   (source)
  • They worked for a Mafia leader, Arkan, who was running some sort of private fascist militia.†   (source)
  • Entire Connecticut militia units were departing en masse, saying they had had enough.†   (source)
  • Is the militia going to try to stop them?†   (source)
  • All members of the militia must have the same organization and discipline to get the best results.†   (source)
  • Militia members killed her sister but finally let Claudine go.†   (source)
  • He said slowly, "General Hill reports only militia."†   (source)
  • If we capture Atto, we cut off the financial support for Aidid's militia.†   (source)
  • Zacharie had been the militia's main target.†   (source)
  • The militia of Pennsylvania seem to be actuated with a spirit more than Roman.†   (source)
  • Could she have been successful using the militia alone?†   (source)
  • Aidid's militia fired a 106 mm recoilless rifle, blasting the lead Pakistani tank into flames.†   (source)
  • The other had died when rebel militia had attacked his high school.†   (source)
  • As it was, New Jersey militia were not turning out in any numbers that could make a difference.†   (source)
  • Down in New Haven they're ready to fight, and Windham's already marched their militia to Boston."†   (source)
  • Since the escape fromBrooklyn Heights, militia had been deserting in droves.†   (source)
  • Large numbers of militia members came to the house, patiently lining up to rape the women.†   (source)
  • Colonel Read had been head of a whole regiment of militia, but he'd quit the job.†   (source)
  • To place any dependence on militia is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.†   (source)
  • As she was walking home, five Hutu militia members surrounded her.†   (source)
  • Trade, taxes, and the militia are the important subjects of federal legislation.†   (source)
  • Aidid's militia had mistaken the CNN's crew for us.†   (source)
  • And she managed their escape, the day when some neighbors warned them that militia were coming.†   (source)
  • To place any dependence upon militia is, assuredly, resting on a broken staff.†   (source)
  • Militia appeared in the neighborhood, shooting up at the helicopters.†   (source)
  • There was no way of knowing how many militia were there.†   (source)
  • Even if they could be forced, frequently calling up the militia would be expensive.†   (source)
  • Minutes after the turnover, Aidid's militia ambushed and killed the seven Nigerians.†   (source)
  • Something like two dozen proxy armies and militias were still fighting in the Congo.†   (source)
  • Regulating and calling forth the militia has already been discussed and justified.†   (source)
  • Our target was one of Aidid's militia headquarters.†   (source)
  • The comments on taxation apply to the militia.†   (source)
  • I picked up the radio mike and vectored helo fire to the source of Aidid's militia.†   (source)
  • There will be a large body of citizens who are members of the militia.†   (source)
  • At 0500 the next day, Aidid's militia fired more artillery at the Port of Mogadishu checkpoint.†   (source)
  • Congress must first call the militia into service.†   (source)
  • The President will only occasionally command the nation's militia.†   (source)
  • Aidid's militia chose the wrong convoy to fire on that morning.†   (source)
  • We don't know how the national government will regulate the militia.†   (source)
  • I shot militia coming at us from the side streets.†   (source)
  • That night, Aidid's militia used an RPG to shoot down one of the QRF helicopters.†   (source)
  • Within States, Militia Discipline Uniform†   (source)
  • Continuing this assumption, would the militia support the confederate authority?†   (source)
  • Number 29: Militia Not Threat to Liberty†   (source)
  • The militia's valor during the recent war erected eternal monuments to their fame.†   (source)
  • Local governments would lead the militia.†   (source)
  • With a clear plan, a trained militia will be ready whenever the defense of the States requires it.†   (source)
  • The States need a force other than the militia during severe problems.†   (source)
  • And the militia would be ready to serve.†   (source)
  • But the militia would become irritated, march to the seat of the tyrant, and crush him.†   (source)
  • A small revolt in part of a State can be suppressed by the militia from other parts of the State.†   (source)
  • However, if it can't use the militia, it will have to use the army.†   (source)
  • And uniformity requires national regulation of the militia.†   (source)
  • This should remove our fears about a militia under the federal government.†   (source)
  • Spending the time and money to train the entire militia would injure labor and industry.†   (source)
  • Using militia members is impractical and dangerous.†   (source)
  • However, we should adopt a well-formed plan to create a militia as soon as possible.†   (source)
  • And the militia would be loyal to the State governments.†   (source)
  • If a tyrant were going to use the army to take over the country, why would he need a militia?†   (source)
  • And the people are attached to the State governments, which appoint the militia officers.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, the forts must get more military personnel either militia or federal army soldiers.†   (source)
  • It would be impossible to train the entire militia of the United States.†   (source)
  • We are told to fear the militia, if the federal government regulates it.†   (source)
  • The nation will be more secure if the Union directs the militia.†   (source)
  • It only needs a force large enough to hold invaders at bay until the militia can be raised.†   (source)
  • A disciplined militia is the natural defense of a free country.†   (source)
  • If the federal government can command the militia during emergencies, it won't use the army.†   (source)
  • The governor of New York can only command the militia and navy.†   (source)
  • The national government won't have any reason to keep a standing army if it controls the militia.†   (source)
  • Therefore, it should regulate the militia.†   (source)
  • The idea that the militia will endanger liberty is far-fetched.†   (source)
  • Mounted militia and Cossacks were stationed in the village for the occasion.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND Ben, I am resigning my commission in the State Militia.†   (source)
  • By the time it became known that the militia were in the village it was already dark.†   (source)
  • He coasts down to a dead stop in the middle of the channel, makes a scan for militia men and wireheads, and finds none.†   (source)
  • Across the tribal areas people were angry and many joined militant groups or formed lashkars, local militias.†   (source)
  • Another brief was filed on behalf of former child soldiers whose terrifying behavior after being forced into violent African militias made the crimes of our clients seem much less aggravated by comparison.†   (source)
  • The rabidly anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (the city had been named for his father) had been steadily building his militia, the Mahdi Army (known in Arabic as the Jaish al-Mahdi).†   (source)
  • John has enlisted in the militia.†   (source)
  • They were followed by a rough-looking militia unit that was trailed by a group of slaves carrying shovels and pickaxes.†   (source)
  • Mariam heard of women who were killing themselves out of fear of being raped, and of men who, in the name of honor, would kill their wives or daughters if they'd been raped by the militia.†   (source)
  • William was a member of the militia in Hartford, and John had sent word that he must care for two of Dr. Bulkeley's patients while the doctor attended the session.†   (source)
  • Everyone else in New York flowed north and fought against my progress: Continental troops in ragged formation, militia units carrying packs and haversacks, small artillery pieces pulled by horses, and carts weighed down with women and children.†   (source)
  • Adams's youngest brother, Elihu, a captain of militia, camped beside the Charles River at Cambridge, was stricken and died, leaving a wife and three children.†   (source)
  • The jailer, Stanton Pendelton, a state militia officer who insisted on being called "Colonel Pendelton," was a perpetually grumpy man with a limp that seemed to grow more pronounced with stormy weather or his own personal level of aggravation.†   (source)
  • The Americans will increase troops in Vietnam to 170,000 soldiers with 120,000 militia and 11,000 American advisors.†   (source)
  • What the Government did do, from its comfortable situation far, far to the east, was to express sympathy in encouraging phrases, and suggest the formation of a local militia: a suggestion which, as all able-bodied males had as a matter of course been members of a kind of unofficial militia since frontier days, was felt to amount to disregard of the situation.†   (source)
  • The militia of Bryn Shander could defeat the combined forces of any five of the other nine towns combined, and Cassius's officers held a monopoly on connections to the necessary marketplace in the south.†   (source)
  • Mobutu's own army allied with Hutus in those camps, a move that led a broad coalition of Tutsis and other ethnic groups in eastern Zaire to form their own militia and join forces with the governments of Rwanda and Uganda against Mobutu.†   (source)
  • Finn had sent word through his militia that Tycho Under must be evacuated; Prof had repeated it over video.†   (source)
  • And those opium profits, funneled back to the warlords, as they were called in the West, or commandhans, as they were known in Afghanistan, enabled them to recruit and equip formidable private militias, making the feeble central government of Hamid Karzai increasingly irrelevant the farther you traveled from Kabul.†   (source)
  • Some may have doubted the wisdom of confronting a trained, professional army with a homegrown militia.†   (source)
  • Kacanik was one of many towns in southern Kosovo that became battlegrounds in the 1990s in the struggle between the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army of Slobodan Milosevic, which was trying to assert Serbian control over the mostly Albanian-inhabited region, and the Kosovo Liberation Army, the ethnically Albanian militia that was fighting for independence against Milosevic's iron rule.†   (source)
  • The day he was inaugurated, he sent out a call for the Massachusetts Militia, and sent a man to England to see about guns.†   (source)
  • Armed forces—Brody's gunners, Finn's militia, Stilyagi Air Corps—stayed on blue alert throughout period.†   (source)
  • Lincoln sent out a call for militia.†   (source)
  • When he came upon a town, he would have known exactly whose door to knock on, who the local militia leader was, who the key players in town were.†   (source)
  • His incitement to ethnic violence worked and his force grew, in no small part because of boys—some of them orphans whose parents had been killed by Doe, some of them kidnapped from their families by Taylor's own militias—that he armed and drugged into a killing frenzy.†   (source)
  • Rotate guards from Finn's militia above each warren starting when and if cruisers passed around Luna into blind space, Farside—not get caught flat-footed again.†   (source)
  • I thought it was only a few militia.†   (source)
  • As the alarm spread that morning, their numbers were steadily swelled by groups of militia from the surrounding towns.†   (source)
  • Oh, minor problems—start compressing city's air while evacuating people, so as to save it; decompress fully at end to minimize damage; move as much food as was time for; cofferdam accesses to lower farm tunnels; so forth—all things we knew how to do and with stilyagi and militia and municipal maintenance people had organization to do.†   (source)
  • Most of the men will be militia and not the match of our boys, but they will come in thousands, bringing fresh guns.†   (source)
  • As another soldier remembered, there was scarcely a militia man who did not think himself equal to two or three of the British.†   (source)
  • " When Kagame's army defeated the genocidaires, the Hutu militia fled to Congo--but took Claudine and her sister along as well.†   (source)
  • Captain Betts was in the Rebel militia.†   (source)
  • But it started out as a minor scrap with a few militia and the next thing I know I'm tangling with half the Union army.†   (source)
  • On the icy morning of December 13th, Revere rode north through deep snow to warn the local militia that the British were on their way.†   (source)
  • But for days afterward, their enlistments up, hundreds, thousands of troops, New England militia,started for home.†   (source)
  • I came up here to warn the militia.†   (source)
  • All the local residents knew that there were soldiers from the Hutu Interahamwe militia in the area, so Dina was fearful whenever she went out to farm the crops.†   (source)
  • The Connecticut militia, already in disgrace for deserting in such appalling numbers, were tagged now with cowardice.†   (source)
  • Dawes did not awaken the town fathers or militia commanders in the towns of Roxbury, Brookline, Watertown, or Waltham.†   (source)
  • He says it must be militia.†   (source)
  • "But wise men know," hewould write, "that militia sometimes gain victories over regular troops, even by departing from the rules."†   (source)
  • A call for militia.†   (source)
  • One of those watching from the Pennsylvania side was the artist Charles Willson Peale, who had arrived with a Philadelphia militia unit in answer to Washington's call for help.†   (source)
  • She and the boys were hiding in a field of maize the next time the militia came and burned their house again.†   (source)
  • And of course Sam wasn't the only one from Redding who'd joined the militia; there were others, and every once in a while you'd hear about this one or that one having been in a battle and maybe having been killed or wounded.†   (source)
  • Finally the British came upon Lexington Common and the two sides met face-to-face: several hundred British soldiers confronting less than a hundred militia.†   (source)
  • It was the militia, after all, who had humiliated the British regulars at Lexington and Concord, on that earlier April 19.†   (source)
  • "All militias here rape women, to show their strength and to show your weakness," said Julienne Chakupewa, a rape counselor in Goma, Congo.†   (source)
  • "And -- " Suddenly, Deo was laughing loudly, saying, "Well, the number of militia groups may be the same number of different types of minerals!"†   (source)
  • The militia, instead of calling forth their utmost efforts to a brave and manly opposition, in order to repair our losses, are dismayed, intractable, and impatient to return.†   (source)
  • Similarly, after Paul Revere had passed on his news, you can imagine that all of the men in the militia movement gathered around and made plans to confront the British the following morning.†   (source)
  • Executive power would include the veto and the appointment of all judges and justices, as well as militia officers, thus making the executive the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.†   (source)
  • When Nkunda presented some of the prisoners of war whom his soldiers had seized from rival armed militias, we asked them about rape.†   (source)
  • In Darfur, it gradually became clear that the Sudanese-sponsored Janjaweed militias were seeking out and gang-raping women of three African tribes, then cutting off their ears or otherwise mutilating them to mark them forever as rape victims.†   (source)
  • By "they" he meant the contingent of rebel Hutu militia which, on the morning of April 30, 1997, came out of the mountains and descended on the school, like the wolf on the fold.†   (source)
  • In Concord that day, the British were confronted and soundly beaten by the colonial militia, and from that exchange came the war known as the American Revolution.†   (source)
  • "Yonder is the ground we ought to occupy," Charles Lee had reportedly told Washington, but only at the last hour had troops been rushed to defend Chatterton's Hill and these were mainly militia.†   (source)
  • Peale, a new star in the Philadelphia firmament, young, gifted, gregarious, was also a wholehearted patriot who only days earlier had signed on as a common soldierin a company of local militia.†   (source)
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