Example sentences for: paramilitaries

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

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

  • According to the NYT , the IRA cease-fire "announcement came after British Prime Minister Tony Blair had made several important concessions to [the IRA's political arm] Sinn Fein to obtain the new cease-fire, notably saying that disarmament of [IRA and Protestant] paramilitaries would not have to start before the September talks."

  • A senior French commander acknowledged that peacekeeping officials suspect Serbian paramilitaries are permeating northern Kosovo and stirring up unrest.

  • 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."

  • 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.


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