private militia
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprivateandmilitia
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private
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.vət/us/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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militia
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/mɪˈlɪʃ.ə/us/məˈlɪʃ.ə/
a military force whose members are trained soldiers but who often have ...
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(Definition ofprivateandmilitiafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Only those with funds and aprivatemilitiawere able, and allowed, to take part, which begs the question of where the money came from all of a sudden.
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Some early private investigators provided armed guards to act as aprivatemilitia.
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The organization was disbanded in 1983, when a large portion of its members were convicted for being part of aprivatemilitia.
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In 792 universal conscription was abandoned, and district heads were allowed to establishprivatemilitiaforces for local police work.
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Theseprivatemilitiagroups however, are not linked with state or federal government organizations or military forces, but that does not necessarily make them illegal.
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In cities across the new country, citizens organized themselves intoprivatemilitiagroups.
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Furthermore, a controversial statute was attached to the bill which stipulated that all private militias not officially recognized by the governor would henceforth be prohibited.
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City directories of the 1910s and 1920s confirm this fact, though there are notably fewer private militias than before the turn of the century.
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Both criminal elements and ethnic activists contributed to the ever-increasing fragmentation of urban space in the city, and to the multiplication of ethnic enclaves controlled by private militias.
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The private militias on both sides must clearly be brought under political control and demobilized.
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We call on the government, we demand that it immediately stop such occurrences, disband the private militias and finally put an end to impunity.
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Emergence of state-sponsored or state-supported private militias that terrorize political opponents, suspected enemies, or civilians seen to be sympathetic to the opposition.
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The private militias... purport to enforce religious law through illegal courts.
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Some farmers formed their own private militias with a number of heavily armed jagunos.
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