Sentence examples for professional guerrilla from inspiring English sources

For Carlos, life as professional guerrilla stems from experience and an inner torment that distinguishes him from the garden variety soldier of fortune, though soldier of fortune is what he is.

These sunbathing tourists became professional guerrillas soon enough back home, where, by 1977, they and successive iterations of the faction ended up killing almost 30 people.

The government, made up of professionals and former guerrillas and political prisoners, emerged from a United Nations-led process intended to give it enough credibility to guide Iraq through the rough days expected before elections in January.

As a professional soldier, Sherman would have found any sort of guerrilla activity angering, but he was particularly incensed by boats' being fired on from the shores of the Mississippi.

Clarridge describes the Argentine military as knowing a lot about urban guerrilla warfare because of their "successful and professional" operations against terrorists in their country.

According to the authors of Guerrilla Marketing for Job-Hunters, many technical professionals, scientists, and engineers have difficulty seeing themselves as anything more than a commodity.

"In a guerrilla situation," he warned, "the guerrilla is the professional, the newcomer the amateur".

Now it is an asymmetric guerrilla conflict fought on the streets by civilians as well as professional combatants.

The record of these organizations is mixed; though they have strong professional leadership, they have been blamed for atrocities against civilians and suspected guerrillas.

He put intelligence to a use that Vann and Drummond had not foreseen when they took such pains to develop a professional system for him: he used the information to go where there were no guerrillas.

The professional soldiers have all been called away to the front, leaving conscripts behind to deal with the rising guerrilla attacks in the city streets.