Example sentences for: paramilitaries

How can you use “paramilitaries” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the meantime, Albright had promoted the United Nations' disastrous "Safe Havens" policy, which placed masses of unarmed Bosnian civilians under the "protection" of minuscule numbers of U.N. (but no U.S.) troops--that is, left them at the mercy of Serb paramilitaries, who systematically set about driving them from their homes and killing them.

  • The brutal reality is that the only concrete changes are the weakening of the forces of law and order and the simultaneous strengthening of the paramilitaries whose ranks are now swollen by a number of former prisoners."

  • If he fails to insist on the decommissioning of weapons before paramilitaries could hold office in the new Northern Ireland assembly, democrats will "be entitled to walk away from an agreement which Mr. Blair had dishonoured."

  • The Kosovo story details a massacre in which local nationalist Serbs and paramilitaries murdered at least 21 members of one family.

  • Let the government, FARC, ELN [the country's two largest leftist rebel groups], the paramilitaries, and the extreme right end their deafness and understand that we are not afraid."


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