The word 'warlord' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a military leader who has control over a specific area or group of people and often engages in acts of aggression and violence. Examples: 1. The country was torn apart by war as multiple warlords fought for control and power. 2. The king's army was no match for the ruthless tactics of the warlord who had been terrorizing the neighboring villages. 3. The government was overthrown by a warlord who promised to bring stability and order to the country. 4. The warlord's reign of terror finally came to an end when a coalition of nations joined forces to defeat him. 5. The country was in chaos as rival warlords battled for control in a bloody civil war.
Since Monday, more than 21m people have viewed this film – made by an American charity called Invisible Children – about the plight of children in Uganda at the hands of the warlord Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lords Resistance Army LRAA) guerilla group.
After 12 years in existence and costing a billion dollars, the ICC has, because of bureaucracy and delays, secured just a single conviction, that of Congolese warlord Germain Katanga.
But Prowse had later had a successful stint as the satanic starship warlord, and even though he was now struggling with a dodgy hip and was lurching alarmingly back and forth along the corridor, he provided some much-needed credibility.
Acaye's home region around the town of Gulu is now relatively peaceful, and the Lord's Resistance Army LRAA), which kidnapped him and killed his brother in 2002, has been driven out of northern Uganda along with its warlord leader, Joseph Kony, who has melted into the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.
The duke could do many things but playing a 13th century Mongol warlord was not one of them.
Take Primal Scream and their unedifying habit at the start of this century of dedicating songs to the Serbian warlord Arkan, who carried out unimaginable crimes of ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian war.
Alexander, who ostentatiously and frequently broke his vow of celibacy, ensured Cesare became a bishop when he was just 15 and a cardinal when he was 18. Cesare became a politician and a warlord, and was suspected of the murders of several members of his own family.
He was a military commander in the days of the Soviet-backed government that fell to the Taliban in 1994 and a warlord with a fearsome reputation.
A UN official reports that commanders associated with an exiled warlord, Gulbuddin Hikmetyar, have returned to their earlier positions on the road to Kabul through the eastern province of Laghman.
Each summer, as the weather gets hotter, the political temperature rises in the enclaves.This year's drama has included the Georgian government's operation last week to disarm a renegade warlord in the remote Kodori gorge, the only bit of Abkhazia at least nominally controlled by the Tbilisi authorities.
"We control most of the north coast, the Magdalena Medio in the centre of the country, and in the south, Nariño and Putumayo," brags "Jorge 40", a warlord who commands the AUC's northern block.
