guerrilla group

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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group
noun
uk
/ɡruːp/us
/ɡruːp/
a number of people or things that are put together or considered as ...
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There are guerrilla groups that refuse to come into the constitution to pursue their aims democratically.
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The meetings covered such groups' treatment by paramilitary and guerrilla groups.
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In addition, paramilitary or guerrilla groups do attempt to block access by outsiders to some parts of the country, particularly remote rural locations.
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Those groups are not necessarily part of the main forces of either of the major guerrilla groups.
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That is the sad story which is the result of retreating in the face of the urban guerrilla groups.
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Aguerrillagroupmust choose when to protect civilians and when to forsake them to preserve its military advantage, or even survival.
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Aguerrillagroupcould do enormous damage for a small amount of money.
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The responsibility for those outrages was claimed by an urbanguerrillagroup.
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Father himself has spent more than 10 years in resistanceguerrillagroup.
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Rojas had last been seen publicly in a video released by theguerrillagroupin 2003.
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Part-way through the trip, the plane was hijacked by a leftistguerrillagroupand forced to land on an abandoned runway in the jungle.
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The government armed forces only added to the violence by fighting theguerrillagroup.
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Afterward, they retreated to the nearby mountains and formed aguerrillagroup.
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Saor ire was intended as an urbanguerrillagroup.
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They also claimed that he received armed protection from theguerrillagroup.
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The nucleus of hisguerrillagroupwas composed of 70 seasoned and highly experienced warriors, which in case of emergency could become a thousand men strong.
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Theguerrillagroupdid not answer him.
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The first reason is an ideological one : that is, revolutionary guerrilla groups tend to promote egalitarianism.
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Guerrilla groups vary in whether they encourage popular support at all and, if they do, how actively they invite civilian participation.
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The brief discussion of other guerrilla groups above suggests they differ significantly in their approaches to civilian participation.
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