Sentence examples for a militant force from inspiring English sources

Mr. Chartrand's personal trajectory mirrored that of Quebec's labor unions, from dutiful allies of the Roman Catholic Church to a militant force that supported Quebec's independence.

But what they soon discovered on that remote, snowy hilltop was that they were vastly outnumbered by a militant force of hundreds of fighters.

In Tulkarm on the West Bank in northern Israel, a Palestinian, Maher Sakalla, 18, died after having been caught in a firefight between Israeli special operations forces and members of the Aksa Martyrs Brigade, a militant force, in a crowded market.

The community galvanized itself into a militant force of opposition.

Specifically, Mr. Schmitt and Ms. Rubin take up the role of the Haqqani Taliban network, which appears to be changing from a crime mob into a leading militant force.

The hole in Upshaw's legacy has been his failure -- or reluctance -- to galvanize players to become a more militant force in the mentoring, hiring and promotion of former athletes.

South of the border, it is acquiring precisely the caricatured significance of the "loony left" in the 80s: a supposedly militant force that Miliband cannot control and would (the argument continues) control him if he depended on its votes to govern.

Video images of Iraqi forces in Humvees in full-throttle withdrawal from Ramadi while a much smaller militant force swept through the city rekindled memories of the battlefield debacle last June, when Iraqi troops retreated ignominiously from the northern city of Mosul and elsewhere.

THE assassination on January 4th of Salman Taseer by Malik Mumtaz Qadri, a commando in his security detail, contained a chilling message: the Barelvi sect of Islam has become a militant new force in Pakistani politics.

Despite a 35-hour workweek that has recently been softened, high payroll taxes and a militant work force, France is the fifth-largest economy in the world and has one of the highest inflows of foreign direct investment in all of Europe.

An army of conservative grassroots groups has mobilised middle-class discontent with government into a militant political force, reaching for an idealised past with the tools of the onrushing future: fax machines, computer bulletin boards, and the shrill buzz of talk radio.