Sentence examples for flying column from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ryan joined the Flying Column of Middle Limerick of the Irish Republican Army, and he recalled blowing up bridges and felling trees to block the path of advancing troops as a teen-ager.

Murphy plays a medical student who joins Flying Column -- a guerrilla band fighting the British, a posse led by his older brother.

Enemies in the Irish Republican Army and others accused him of brutality, among them Tom Barry, leader of the West Cork Flying Column, whose general veracity, however, has been challenged by both colleagues and historians.

21, 1543, by Galawdewos and a flying column.

On the Bulgarian front they crossed the Danube in June 1877, and a flying column seized the Shipka Pass through the Balkan Mountains on July 19.

The idea of complete independence from external sources of supply the hard-hitting, self-contained "flying column"—has always been alluring but has seldom fully materialized.

But western officials say the terrorist group has adapted its tactics, sending flying columns through the Sahara to launch pinpoint attacks in aan attempt to cripple the oil industry.

This is how the government keeps the road open – conscript soldiers and a series of flying columns, open-top trucks mounted with heavy machine guns and soldiers cowled behind scarves to protect them from the desert wind.

The film was shot in the rolling west Cork countryside, where the actual flying columns operated and, though the subject matter is loaded and provocative, the filming, according to Murphy, was anything but fraught.

For this, Mudge formed three flying columns.

Supported by his brother, Tiridates I sent flying columns to raid the Romans far and wide.