Sentence examples for formidable guerrilla from inspiring English sources
(Starting in 1954, Guatemala's government faced formidable guerrilla opposition that sparked civil war).
But questions remain about the ability of Afghan soldiers to use their weapons against a formidable guerrilla force.
Although routed in the cities and much less capable of waging conventional war, Unita remains a formidable guerrilla force.
Some officials recall that the Soviet forces who invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 faced a similar pattern of poorly coordinated and clumsily executed attacks, but they note that it was not long before Moscow faced a formidable guerrilla movement.
But the film still leaves Cambodia-watchers pondering the fate of Pol Pot and the remnants of his once formidable guerrilla army.As with every other detail of the Khmers Rouges' contact with the outside world, Mr Thayer's journey with a cameraman from the Thai border to Anlong Veng was not a matter of chance.
No man has made himself more Israel's enemy in recent years than Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the portly, bespectacled Shiite Muslim cleric who leads Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based, Iran-backed Party of God thas has evolved into a formidable guerrilla movement and political party from the umbrella organization that once directed the Middle East's most brutal Islamic terrorists.
Wounded in battle at least three times, he built a fierce guerrilla force and a formidable reputation as a warrior.
Brian Keenan, who has died of cancer aged 66, was one of the leading Irish republicans of his generation, a fiercely committed guerrilla strategist, and a formidable foe of the British state.
By mid century the western Xhosa were formidable foes who used firearms and adopted guerrilla tactics.
He organized anti-French guerrilla forces and became a formidable threat to the European colonialists, who spread exaggerated stories about his ferocity and ruthlessness.
EVEN after the capture of Saddam Hussein in December, Iraq remains mired in a guerrilla war and facing a formidable process to repair and secure its oil infrastructure, leaving its role ahead unclear.
