Sentence examples for militia line from inspiring English sources

While Simcoe moved, Phillips made two assaults on the second militia line, both of which were repulsed.

The British artillery, and the strength of numbers that threatened to flank their position convinced the first militia line to retreat to the second after half an hour of resistance.

But the second, described as a "massacre" by rebel witnesses, took aim at a group of unarmed protesters who attempted to march through the militia lines toward the capital.

Wherever Mr. Kim traveled, militia lined the streets, sidewalk cafes abruptly declared "sanitary hour" -- a break ostensibly to clean up -- and officials of the domestic security agency, the Federal Security Service, popped up to keep a watch on journalists and other unwanted hangers-on.

Back in Budapest at a Jobbik rally against the World Jewish Congress, militias lined up in military formation.

Members of militia groups line the main roads.

I'd add "while serving in the militia" to line three.

The fighting this week is said to have split the Soviet-trained army and the heavily armed party militia along lines of personal, ideological and tribal loyalties.

"Militia snipers lined the hilltops and overpasses with scopes trained on federal agents," SPLC noted.

At the first sign of the British approach, the Patriots attempted to organize a defense under the ad-hoc command of Captain Nathaniel M. Martin, who tried to rally the militia to a line behind a nearby rail fence.

Why the militias crossed a line this past weekend is not entirely clear.