Sentence examples for militias about from inspiring English sources

Stuff like that only appeared among the militias about three days after I left.

Sunni Arab militias, about 80,000 members strong throughout Iraq, have brought relative calm to many areas in western Anbar Province and Baghdad that had long resisted security operations by American and Iraqi forces.

Stories abound of bank staff tipping off militias about certain clients' wealth for kidnapping and extortion, militias laundering cash through real estate deals made under false names, and businessmen scamming government funds through false deals involving letters of credit.

Five major parties with militias contributed about 100 people each to the formation of the 36th Battalion of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps last month.

Whether the SPLC agrees or not, militias are about as American as apple pie and handguns, and they appear throughout modern US history.

The rebels, with an estimated 4,000 hard-core fighters, a militia of about 15,000 -- though the Maoists claim 100,000 -- and unsophisticated weaponry, can inflict terror in Katmandu, but would have a hard time taking it.

A rebel militia, about 1,000 strong, under Colonels Alexander Lillington and Richard Caswell, was assembled and positioned at Moore's Creek Bridge, 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Wilmington.

Abdul Kader (he wanted only his first name to be used, for obvious reasons) joined his first militia about six years ago, when he was 20.

They suggested the espionage accusations reflected a misunderstanding by the Zintani militia about the role and prerogatives of a western-style defence lawyer.

Connecticut's mounted militia (about 100 active troopers) has two units: The Second Company Governor's Horse Guard, which does this weekly Sunday morning drill and was established in 1808, and the First Company Governor's Horse Guards based in Avon, which drills at night and was chartered in 1788, making it the oldest continuously operating horse guard in the nation.

It's a reference to Paul Revere's warning to the American revolutionary militia about the approach of British forces in Massachusetts with the cry: "The British are coming, the British are coming".* The article begins: "President Obama's attempts to form a coalition of nations willing to attack Syria appear to be splintering.