guerrilla movement

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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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movement
noun
uk
/ˈmuːv.mənt/us
/ˈmuːv.mənt/
a change ...
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These discussions ranged across the whole gamut of problems besetting the country - lack of justice, the economic situation, drug trafficking, public order, the guerrilla movements, the peace process.
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Many guerrilla movements even prefer child soldiers to fully-grown combatants.
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By comparison with this, the victory or defeat of one or other of the independent guerrilla movements was relatively unimportant.
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There is no doubt about who are behind the guerrilla movements.
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They have armed, financed and equipped the guerrilla movements.
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With the emergence of aguerrillamovementin 1971, both prison life and the composition of the prisoners changed.
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They have had the support of the black population in crushing theguerrillamovement.
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That is not the way to deal with aguerrillamovement.
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At that time there was noguerrillamovement.
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The highly dramatic film is about the organization of aguerrillamovementand the methods used by the colonial power to contain it.
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The brutality of these reprisals led to a collapse of the earlyguerrillamovement.
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In 1993, the divisions within theguerrillamovementbecame more distinct.
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Food and other resources continued to be readily available and the local people supported theguerrillamovement.
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During the independence war, the rebels play a bigger role in theguerrillamovement.
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The guerrillas saw in the illegal drug trade a form of financing theirguerrillamovement.
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Morazn was a major stronghold of theguerrillamovementduring the 1979-1992 civil war.
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The guerrilla movements' own political understanding of the situation is that they enjoy support - or that they can garner it, with sufficient political work.
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It never had to face all the problems of the relations with the local population, which are the daily fare of practically all guerrilla movements.
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The divergent fortunes or misfortunes of guerrilla movements in the modern world suggest that no counterinsurgency strategy could predictably have the same results in all places and at all times.
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