Sentence examples for off the militia from inspiring English sources

In a furious rear-guard action the raiders fought off the militia (killing Ayer in the action), but lost nine killed, including Hertel de Rouville's brother, and 18 wounded.

Those wrenching images of this girl, whose arm was amputated after she was shot, and other children whose limbs were hacked off by the militia built the global political will to intervene and end Sierra Leone's civil war (Britain did the heavy lifting).

The measure is aimed at cutting off the brutal militia groups that have often taken over the mining and sale of so-called conflict minerals to finance their military aims.

At the camp, the warriors then set up a skirmish line in order to fend off the pending militia attack.

Their protest generated national and international attention, and the Government of Southern Sudan, or GoSS, pledged to send additional troops to fend off the predatory militia and defend the local population.

Harney County sheriff Dave Ward last week offered to peacefully escort Bundy and the rest of the militia off the refuge and out of state.

Well off the main road, the militia training camps are hidden from view near this bustling river port city, a major shipment point for relief supplies to the famished populations of the Islamist-occupied north.

And it is trying to get the militias off the streets and to integrate them into a revamped police force and army.

He said that he planned to institute a program to get members of the militias off the street and into paying jobs.

It took the Americans and the Iraqis' own surge to get the militias off the streets in April last year in the operation known as "the Charge of the Knights", according to the hawks and neocons' oversimplistic narrative.

To a certain extent, it is true that the Iraqi army, plus the Americans, plus belatedly some British forces, have got the militias off the streets in Iraq's southern oil capital through their Charge of the Knights offensive.