Sentence examples for illegal forces from inspiring English sources

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Some Colombians might indeed be content to see the two main illegal forces killing each other.

"The Yugoslav Army has not defined which illegal forces they have in mind". Janez Jansa, the Slovenia minister in charge of militia units, said by telephone.

This year the issue has reached a head, as those illegal forces clash with conservationists who are trying to draw attention to the eels' fate – especially along the waterways of France.

Though the official policy is to combat the irregular and illegal forces of both right and left, in practice there is much evidence that army commanders in the field turn a blind eye to the paramilitaries, and sometimes operate in collusion with them, against what they see as a common enemy.

When a black student named James Meredith obtained a court order to enroll at the University of Mississippi, Gov. Ross Barnett went on television to say he would "not surrender to the evil and illegal forces of tyranny".

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The United States, Viereck wrote, should "everywhere answer illegal force with force-in-law, returning words for words and bullets for bullets".

The department presented its confidential proposal to the city in March, after finding that the police regularly used illegal force, often for minor offenses.

Last August, the Indian supreme court ruled that more than 200 mining licences awarded by governments before 2010 were illegal, forcing the cancellation of numerous planned projects.

Since informal talks began more than a year ago, the paramilitaries have tried to cast themselves as a legitimate, though illegal, force that has defended lives and property.

Recent deaths at the hands of police in Ferguson, Mo., and on Staten Island, N.Y., have rightly raised questions about illegal force and racial bias in law enforcement.

But there has also been anger from those who see the incident not as an escalation of a local dispute, but as an example of illegal force being used to further a political goal.

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