Sentence examples for local guerrillas from inspiring English sources

More specifically, if a particular locality had established local guerrillas, local officials were motivated to protect local economic interests and facilitate economic development for the sake of political survival.

They were local guerrillas, young farmers in black shirts and work shorts.

But there is a wild card: No one yet knows how the local guerrillas will react.

A squad of 11, including Thompson, detached to seek out local guerrillas.

Drummond estimated that there were about ten thousand local guerrillas in the 7th Division's area.

These part-time local guerrillas would "fade back into the woodwork," Vann reasoned, and become peaceful full-time farmers again.

Five local guerrilla commanders were killed, and four more captured.

But the brief occupation of Vietnam was met with determined local guerrilla resistance, and the Ming government quickly decided to restore the boundary to its original line.

For one thing, the insurgency is highly fractured, though some American and Iraqi commanders believe there is scope for deals with local guerrilla leaders and tribal sheikhs that might lead to wider ceasefires.

But then Maggie and Carson's cook, the almost mystically well-connected Dona Fortunata, persuades the local guerrilla-in-hiding, Vicente, to bring his infant daughter in for treatment.

"That's likely why we don't provide services".Like many of the Sunnis in Adhamiya, who were once adamantly hostile to the American occupation, they now beg the Americans to stay to protect them against their Shia neighbours at the same time as continuing to harbour a local guerrilla network.