Sentence examples for clandestine force from inspiring English sources

The forces that drove the Islamic State from its lands were equipped to liberate occupied cities, not fight a dispersed, clandestine force.

A clandestine force, the Special Collection Service, built special permeable walls to listen to all manner of communication — "cellular signals, wireless networks and satellite communication".

No such orders were given, however, to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), a clandestine force composed of elite fighters from several branches of the U.S. armed forces.

A United States senator, campaigning for the presidency, becomes the target of dangerous clandestine forces.

Frustrated by the lead role taken by the C.I.A., Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld urged the Pentagon's clandestine forces, under the Joint Special Operations Command, to add terrorist hunting to their specialties.

A bit of research revealed that this was an SS idea to set up clandestine forces to harass and sabotage the Allied armies when they entered Germany and to punish Germans who cooperated.

What hope can there be for peace and trust in Northern Ireland when unaccountable, clandestine forces of a supposed democratic government can murder their own citizens under the guise of preserving "law and order"?

Surprise is a key ingredient in maskirovka and the clandestine forces which occupied Crimea last February certainly delivered that.

The clandestine sabotage force was set up on the command of Winston Churchill to "set Europe ablaze".

But this wide-ranging strategy — relying on often unreliable allies, sometimes sketchy intelligence and a clandestine American force already strained by a decade of secretive wars — has its limitations, American officials have said in recent days.

Shiite militias, largely dormant in recent years, have remobilized for the fight in Syria, and there are many signs that they receive funding and direction from Iran's clandestine Quds Force.