guerrilla attacks

collocation in English

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guerrilla
noun[C]
uk
/ɡəˈrɪl.ə/us
/ɡəˈrɪl.ə/
a member of an unofficial military group that is trying to change the government by making sudden, unexpected attacks on the official ...
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attack
noun
uk
/əˈtæk/us
/əˈtæk/
a violent act intended to hurt or damage someone ...
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Coffee growers also suffered from guerrilla attacks, extortion, and the imposition of so-called war taxes during the 1980s.
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Thousands of deaths may be attributed to various guerrilla attacks and assassinations.
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There were continued raids, skirmishes and guerrilla attacks, but through most of the rest of the year each side withdrew to prepare itself for larger operations.
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Chava is next in turn, but at the last moment he is saved by aguerrillaattack.
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It is partly, of course, because of the guerrilla attacks.
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But we are very concerned with the continuing guerrilla attacks and the horrible destruction by all sides of innocent civilians in reaching a settlement.
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Conventional forces and conventional defences are not going to be enough against guerrilla attacks.
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In 1964, there were around 280 guerrilla attacks and over 500 in 1965.
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To balance the unpopular decision, he also pardoned some of the insurgents convicted of guerrilla attacks in the 1970s.
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The royalist army of 5,400 men, with newly arrived reinforcements, was met with a scorched earth retreat combined with continuous guerrilla attacks.
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Confederate uprisings and guerrilla attacks continued sporadically in the city.
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They began guerrilla attacks that included urban and rural warfare, mainly against the military and some of the civilian supporters of the army.
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Many difficulties stood in his troops' way: in some counties guerrilla attacks stopped them for many days.
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Radicals attempted to halt planned expansion of the airport by staging guerrilla attacks on those directly or indirectly involved in promoting the plan.
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After 1979, however, government policies, guerrilla attacks, and natural disasters reduced investment, impeding the coffee industry's growth.
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The frequency of guerrilla attacks rose as the insurgency gathered steam.
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