Sentence examples for irregular armies from inspiring English sources

There are thousands in irregular armies.

That amounts to more than half of the three irregular armies' estimated total strengths.

The well-equipped irregular armies are steadily swelling: the guerrillas now number some 20,000, the paramilitaries perhaps 4,500.

And we must really pause and think, Where do they get their food from, after all, to feed and look after irregular armies that have thousands of people?

Assistant Secretary General Ibrahima Fall told the Security Council that irregular armies in the entire area, not only Sierra Leone, had to be disarmed.

In the Afghanistan scenes, the filmmakers' handheld shooting successfully catches the disorder and the confusion of a war fought by irregular armies.

Omarska, they tell us, is an 'investigation centre' for men suspected of being in the Muslim irregular army.

Many appear to rely on Chinese freelancers and an irregular army of "patriotic hackers" who operate with the support of civilian or military authorities, but not directly under their day-to-day control, the cables and interviews suggest.

Mr. Rubin said the ensuing accord and the gratitude of Kosovo Albanians was among his most "emotionally satisfying experiences," though some have criticized the agreement as deferring too much to a ruthless, irregular army and giving it too much of a role in settling the conflict.

According to Israeli intelligence sources, Hizbullah is also working to forge militias loyal to the regime in Syria into a 100,000-strong irregular army to fight alongside Mr Assad's conventional forces.In this section More than minerals Addled in Addis On to the polls Let's try a less awkward embrace What happened to reform?

Witnesses said thousands of members of this irregular army were massing on roads to the capital, Tripoli, where one resident described scenes evocative of anarchic Somalia: clusters of heavily armed men in mismatched uniforms clutching machine guns and willing to carry out orders to kill Libyans that other police and military units, and even fighter pilots, have refused.