Sentence examples for a guerrilla band from inspiring English sources

The following year he escaped and for several years led a guerrilla band.

Nearly two years would pass before the war caught up with him, when Gilbert's family was set upon by what he identified as a "guerrilla band".

RED DAWN Dan Bradley directed this remake of John Milius's 1984 film about high school students who form themselves into a guerrilla band when the United States is invaded by foreign forces — in this version, from North Korea.

Set during the Spanish Civil War, it tells of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer who is sent to join a guerrilla band behind the Nationalist lines in the Guadarrama Mountains.

Staurowsky was talking to me last month in Colorado Springs at a meeting of the Drake Group, which had some of the feeling of a guerrilla band in the hills waiting for a popular uprising to sweep it into power.

In fact, Mr Heyer is one of a guerrilla band of executives parachuted into the world's biggest media company with the hazardous mission of making Time Warner make sense.This mission matters every bit as much to Mr Turner as to Gerald Levin, Time Warner's embattled boss.

The two westerns that Ride With the Devil most immediately brings to mind are Robert Benton's Bad Company, in which a group of teenage outlaws makes common cause in the West after crossing the Mississippi to avoid being drafted in the Civil War, and Clint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales, where a Missouri farmer is driven into joining a Confederate guerrilla band as a result of a Union massacre.

History remembers him for leading a murderous guerrilla band dedicated to preventing Kansas from becoming a slave state and for his seizure of the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va., where he was captured by Col. Robert E. Lee, tried for treason and hanged.

And from the safety of the United States, he watched a tiny guerrilla band recruit Tamils from refugee camps "because they had lost their homes and their hope".

Ultra-right paramilitaries had killed more than 20 people, punishing the villagers for giving food to an insistent Marxist guerrilla band who had been roaming the northern province of Antioquia.

Jeff Bridges's Rooster is a wily, duplicitous, self-centred man and, as they journey west, he's revealed to have had a terrible domestic life and a dodgy professional one, first as a member of Quantrill's murderous guerrilla band during the civil war, later as an outlaw.