paramilitary in English

adjective
1
(of an unofficial force) organized similarly to a military force.
soldiers and police have been killed in conflicts with the drug cartels and their paramilitary allies
noun
1
a member of an unofficial paramilitary organization.
The struggle in Chocó is but one stage on which the guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries are fighting their war.
noun
    paramilitary unit

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1. Has he had paramilitary training?

2. AirMerica crash, two helicopters, some paramilitary operation.

3. Michael eventually became disillusioned with the paramilitary struggle, disturbed, for example, by the bitter feuding that was carried on among different paramilitary groups.

4. I'm an elite agent of an intergalactic paramilitary force.

5. It is the country with the highest number of military and paramilitary personnel, with a total of 9,495,000 active, reserve, and paramilitary personnel.

6. They were removed from the walls by the paramilitary Basij forces.

7. Oman also maintains a modestly sized paramilitary force of 4,400 men.

8. The principal parties were Hezbollah paramilitary forces and the Israeli military.

9. The paramilitary struggle has been idealized in murals throughout Northern Ireland

10. “Some of my relatives have been involved in paramilitary activities.

11. The CIA has increasingly expanded its role, including covert paramilitary operations.

12. The local priest and some paramilitary leaders had conspired to kill him.

13. * Teresa admits: “This got me involved in the support of paramilitary activity.

14. 4 The Good Friday agreement was equivocal on decommissioning of paramilitary weapons.

15. A paramilitary group attempted to commandeer the bus and take it to Madrid.

16. It alleges that Tamil paramilitary groups affiliated to the government have unfettered access.

17. • A paramilitary group attempted to Commandeer the bus and take it to Madrid

18. Fighting has been conducted by regular armies, paramilitary groups, terror cells, and individuals.

19. “Red Guard” student paramilitary groups quickly cropped up across the country to advance Mao’s will.

20. The Royal Gendarmerie of Cambodia is a paramilitary unit with 10,000 soldiers deployed in all provinces.

21. Prime Minister Major favors elections as a path to talks since paramilitary groups have refused to disarm.

22. The MP 18 served with German police and paramilitary forces after the end of the war.

23. In modern context, the OMON are used more like riot police, or as a gendarmerie-like paramilitary force.

24. 10 They downplay, or justify, the proliferation of white supremacist - tinged paramilitary groups, police violence, and racial profiling.

25. Before the establishment of the state of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist paramilitary group Lehi.

26. To this end he became a member of a terrorist organization that gave him paramilitary training in France.

27. They downplay, or justify, the proliferation of white supremacist - tinged paramilitary groups, police violence, and racial profiling.

28. 19 They downplay, or justify, the proliferation of white supremacist - tinged paramilitary groups, police violence, and racial profiling.

29. The plot unfolds mostly on board of the prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.

30. The Minister of the Interior is responsible for the national police force, paramilitary force (gendarmerie) and the secret police.

31. Although he was not successful, he was able to extend his involvement in the paramilitary scene in Munich.

32. Blackshirt (plural Blackshirts) ( historical , chiefly in the plural ) A uniformed member of a paramilitary wing of the Italian Fascist Party

33. Throughout the 1860 election, the Wide Awakes, a novel paramilitary-style organization, held mass rallies, marches, and demonstrations to combat slave power

34. In the mid to late 1870s, white Democrats used paramilitary groups such as the Red Shirts to intimidate and terrorize black voters.

35. The explosion which killed members of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Bara was the third such attack in the past week .

36. Police and paramilitary forces used tear gas shelling in Sector 3, Panchkula, to control Dera supporters which led to clashes.

37. "The paramilitary demobilization process -- by which over 31,000 members of paramilitary groups supposedly demobilized -- and the legal framework that has accompanied it, has been a complete sham which has abjectly failed both to dismantle paramilitarism in Colombia and to respect the right of victims to truth, justice and reparation.

38. The VPA has an active manpower of around 450,000, but its total strength, including paramilitary forces, may be as high as 5,000,000.

39. The escalation of the Portland protests came as unidentified federal officers in paramilitary uniforms were caught on tape Abducting protesters and as …

40. Counterinsurgency Is defined as ? Is those military, paramilitary, economic, psychological and civil action taken by a government to defeat an insurgency

41. I had borrowed one of Norris's big paramilitary-style fawn shirts to wear as a jacket over my anti Poll Tax T-shirt.

42. Translated as "storm division, " the SA was the paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party, which played a key role in Hitler's rise to power.

43. Have you ever served in, been a member of, or been involved with a paramilitary unit, vigilante unit, rebel group, guerrilla group, or insurgent organization?

44. This paramilitary would come to be known informally as the “Brownshirts” as they were clad in brown uniforms similar to the fascist “Blackshirts” of Italy.

45. 25 I had borrowed one of Norris's big paramilitary-style fawn shirts to wear as a jacket over my anti Poll Tax T-shirt.

46. The Byelorussian Auxiliary Police (Belarusian language: Беларуская дапаможная паліцыя; German language: Weißruthenische Schutzmannschaften, or Hilfspolizei) was a collaborationist paramilitary force established in July 1941

47. Bangladesh bought phone-hacking tools from Israel, documents show The country’s notorious paramilitary force, RAB, was among those trained to extract data from mobile phones

48. Just before, and during World War II, these sentiments led to the appearance of a number of pro-Nazi Afrikaner nationalistic organisations, such as the Ossewabrandwag and its paramilitary wing Stormjaers.

49. Between 1962 and 1971, the United States provided Laos with an estimated US$500 million in military assistance, not including the cost of equipping and training irregular and paramilitary forces.

50. The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging ([afriˈkɑːnər ˌviərstants.bəˈviəχəŋ]), meaning Afrikaner Resistance Movement, commonly known by its abbreviation AWB, is an Afrikaner nationalist, neo-Nazi, and white supremacist political party and paramilitary organisation active in South Africa