Sentence examples for try to demobilize from inspiring English sources

"He has in his hands a repressive weapon to try to demobilize the resistance," Rafael Alegría, the leader of the farmworkers' union, said of Mr. Micheletti in an interview with Radio Globo on Friday.

American and Iraqi officials said they were trying to demobilize a large number of the fighters.

The defense maintains that Mr. Lubanga was only a political leader who did no military recruiting and instead tried to demobilize children fighting in his group.

The $150 million "Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration" program, run by the United Nations, plans to demobilize 100,000 men over the next three years, to try to rid the country of its warring factions and replace them with a new national army and police force.

After the ban in 2002, the United States and Britain tried to persuade Pakistan to demobilize the fighters but failed to do so, the experts said.

"One of the reasons the world is safer now is that we are going out and trying to find our enemies and demobilizing them," he said.

Those who demobilized on Tuesday did so under the framework of earlier legislation allowing insurgent groups to demobilize and members to be reincorporated into society.

The paramilitary groups that earned Colombia its violent reputation began to demobilize in 2004.

Furthermore, both the southern and northern armies have failed to demobilize tens of thousands of soldiers.

Its rebel faction had promised to demobilize its troops and to help reunify the country.

United Nations officials say they have offered the Somali government specific plans to demobilize the children.