How to Use militia in a Sentence
militia
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Millions of Arabs whose lives have been shattered by the militia want a different future.
— Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024 -
At the time the extremist group was a small militia, employing suicide bombs as its most powerful weapon.
— Ibrahim Al-Marashi / Made By History, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024 -
That rapid decapitation of the militia’s leadership is the result of years of preparation.
— Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2024 -
The search ends with a lynching on a country road, a procession to the heart of the Black business district and a riotous bonfire quelled when the governor calls the militia.
— arkansasonline.com, 5 Oct. 2024 -
Protests have broken out in districts of Tehran that traditionally produce the militia relied upon to put down protests—not generate them.
— Karl Vick, Time, 28 Oct. 2022 -
Left-leaning groups have filed two lawsuits against groups organizing watch parties, including one with ties to the Oath Keepers militia.
— Chris Megerian, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022 -
The militia has won the admiration of many young Palestinians by posting videos on social media of its attacks on Israelis in real-time.
— Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022 -
The newspaper said the governor has exclusive authority under the state Constitution to call on the militia to keep the public peace.
— From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022 -
Iran has previously provided the same missiles to proxy militia groups in the Middle East, most notably Houthi fighters in Yemen.
— Shane Harris, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022 -
Iran’s armed forces consist of parallel layers that include the army, the security forces in charge of domestic policing and the Guard and its plainclothes Basij militia.
— Ben Hubbard, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2022 -
Rebels and militias crisscross the desert shared by the two nations.
— Katharine Houreld and Bryan Pietsch, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2023 -
All belonged to the Oath Keepers militia or the rightwing Proud Boys.
— Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 13 June 2023 -
But as the ranks of the civilian militias have swelled over the past 18 months, so have reports of mass killings.
— Christiaan Triebert, New York Times, 11 May 2024 -
For the past month or so, those militia attacks have stopped.
— Greg Myre, NPR, 6 Apr. 2024 -
Those groups include both the Houthis in Yemen and militias in Iraq and Syria.
— Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023 -
There are thoughts that was in a local militia and never left the city.
— al, 19 Feb. 2023 -
The most likely outcome, experts say, is that the militias will pause — but not for long.
— Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024 -
Both Israel and the militias avoided causing the kind of damage that could lead to all-out war.
— Patrick Kingsley and Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023 -
The militia has said the attacks are in response to an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
— Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2024 -
Hemedti joined the Janjaweed, a pro-government militia that fought against the Darfur rebels.
— Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023 -
When Russian forces floundered, the private militia known as the Wagner Group took over the fight.
— Peter Weber, The Week, 25 Aug. 2023 -
An armed militia fires at will to shut down a TV news network in Washington.
— Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023 -
At least a dozen Hezbollah fighters have been killed by Israeli shelling, the militia group announced.
— Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023 -
Five died in skirmishes, and badly outgunned, the militia on 25 March agreed to a Russian demand to leave the city.
— Byrichard Stone, science.org, 8 Dec. 2022 -
Hezbollah is one of Iran’s proxy militias and has threatened to open a second front against Israel.
— The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023 -
In 2022, Ma Htet Htet joined a militia fighting in central Myanmar.
— Paul Mozur Adam Ferguson, New York Times, 4 May 2024 -
The police in the West Bank are almost completely settlers and militia.
— Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024 -
The time from his arrest to execution, on charges of killing two plainclothes Basij militia, spanned less than a month.
— Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022 -
Group that grew from infamous Janjaweed militia blamed for killing of about 800 people in refugee camp.
— Nicholas Bariyo and Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2023 -
Jason van Tatenhove was once the media spokesman for the militia group known as the Oath Keepers, which played a crucial role in the uprising.
— David Remnick, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
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