Sentence examples for guerilla from inspiring English sources

'guerilla' is a correct and usable word in written English.
Usually, it is used to describe a person or group that engages in unconventional warfare, characterized by the use of ambush and sabotage. Example: The guerilla fighters used guerrilla tactics to disrupt enemy movements.

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guerilla

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Alternative spelling of guerrilla

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Since Monday, more than 21m people have viewed this film – made by an American charity called Invisible Children – about the plight of children in Uganda at the hands of the warlord Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lords Resistance Army LRAA) guerilla group.

A fantasy figure of guerilla violence for an age that preferred its politics drugged up with romantic fantasy.

Lobbyists see their battles with opposition activists as "guerilla warfare".

Most of the seized goods were made by Norinco, China's largest state-owned arms manufacturer.The consignment was ideally suited to guerilla warfare: it included more than 1,000 assault rifles, submachine guns with silencers, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, over 25,000 hand grenades, and 1.8m rounds of rifle ammunition.

The first thing to note, in the case of the rather implausible thought-experiment of the reporter embedded with a guerilla group, is that Mr Danziger does not even appear to consider whether there might be some valid case for "neutrality" in such circumstances.

It covered Satan's strategies for "guerilla warfare": the demons systematically invade the populace, disguising themselves as innocents.

The president ordered the arrest of guerilla leaders even as the air force began to bomb and strafe FARC camps and other targets, such as landing strips, in the zone.

"We don't have heavy weapons and the Yazidis don't have much military experience, so we have been training them in guerilla warfare," said the director of training, a petite woman with a prosthetic hand who goes by the nom de guerre Berivan Lalesh.Both Syria and Iraq's Kurds say their limited arsenal has been an obstacle in their fight against IS.

THE winner of the May 25th election will attempt to end one of the world's longest running guerilla wars.

The history of the Spanish war shows conclusively that the guerilla resistance of the nation would have been useless without the regular resistance of the English army under the Duke of Wellington; the Spaniards enabled him to effect more with fewer troops, but they did little themselves.

We cannot expect a protracted guerilla resistance from a nation which has neither an inaccessible territory, nor a regular army, nor an attached peasant population.But if the Confederacy cannot long defend itself, if the civil war must soon come to an end, what will be its effect on us?

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