Sentence examples for guerrilla against from inspiring English sources

They are playing for time," Lhasang Tsering, an outspoken Tibetan exile who fought as a guerrilla against China in the early seventies, told me.

Mr Ivanov, now 79, was 16 when he fought as a guerrilla against the Nazi occupation of his home Smolensk region, sabotaging trainloads of arms, supplies and troops.

Its candidate for governor in Sao Paulo, Jose Genoino (who fought as a guerrilla against Brazil's military dictatorship but is now a leading party "moderniser"), wants life sentences for kidnappers.

Mullah Saduddin Burhany, the current chief judge of Kunduz, said that Mullah Akka was educated and articulate, and achieved social status when he fought as a guerrilla against the Soviet Union during the 1980's.

Spadafora was a dashingly handsome man, a former medical doctor from a prominent Panamanian-Italian family, who had previously fought as a guerrilla against the colonial Portuguese in Africa and then with the Sandinistas, in Nicaragua.

"Squabbling over political differences takes a back seat to the daily struggle for security, jobs, basic freedoms and all the rights the U.N. is chartered to uphold," said Mr. Zebari, a blunt-spoken Kurd with a history of fighting as a mountain guerrilla against Mr. Hussein.

Ten years ago, Macedonia teetered on the brink of an all-out civil war pitting ethnic Albanian guerrillas against the security forces.

Laotian Hmong general who commanded Hmong guerrillas against communist forces in Laos as an ally of U.S. troops during the Vietnam War.

In 1963 he was sent back to the south, where he led Viet Cong guerrillas against U.S. and South Vietnamese forces.

"We are breaking with the terrorist politics that Álvaro Uribe's government is employing," said Mr. Ortega, who once led the Sandinista guerrillas against American-backed forces in Nicaragua.

NN (Peru) Between 1980 and 2000, Peru was beset by a horrible civil war that pitted Maoist guerrillas against government troops.