Sentence examples for Fierce guerrilla from inspiring English sources

Fierce guerrilla attacks on two northern fishing towns killed at least 30 people during the weekend, including 24 police officers, a mayor, and two children, officials said.

Wounded in battle at least three times, he built a fierce guerrilla force and a formidable reputation as a warrior.

Meanwhile, Muqtadā al-Ṣadr, a young militant cleric, waged a fierce guerrilla battle against U.S. and Iraqi forces in Al-Najaf.

Jonas Savimbi, 67, a charismatic and fierce guerrilla fighter who fought one of Africa's longest-running civil wars, was reported killed in a predawn ambush by Angolan troops.

It also comes as a shock to be reminded that the British, French and Russians who leapt on the American bandwagon were met with fierce guerrilla resistance by samurai warriors.

Few of the tourists visiting Sharm el-Sheikh will have taken on board that there is a fierce guerrilla war going on in other parts of Sinai, but these cannot be kept entirely separate from the sanitised tourist resorts of the Red Sea.

They staged a historic sit-in and sang "When Will The Sky Be Clear Again," a traditional rebel song from Crete, where fierce guerrillas have fought occupying forces dating back to the Ottoman Turks.

Moran, a fighter in the civil war of the 1920s, and a fierce former guerrilla commander, is presented as a typically obdurate kind of Irish father.

In early 1981, Santa Ana was at the centre of a fierce attack by guerrilla units of the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional; FMLN).

Amid fierce fighting between the guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries, thousands of residents have fled across the border to Ecuador.

He moved to the Pakistani border town of Peshawar in 1984, by which time Soviet forces were encountering fierce opposition from Afghan guerrillas.