Sentence examples for fierce guerrilla from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Piecing together what happened, from surviving family members, ethnic Albanian separatist forces and official Serbian information, a story emerges of fierce guerrilla resistance to an onslaught by Serbian tanks, artillery and infantry.

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.

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).

The revolutionaries went on to engage in a fierce and successful guerrilla war against government troops.

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