irregulars

  Healthy male ex-slaves were armed and assigned to training companies, which we called the irregulars, because we didn’t have uniforms for them.

Lord Conrads Crusade Frankowski, Leo 2005

Very improbably, "irregulars" -- wildcat supporters with their own phone bank, calling lists and scripts.

Hillary Campaign Supplies Person Who Claims To Have Received "Dirty Tricks" Call From Obama 2009

They did not expect to have this amount of resistance, A, from the so-called irregulars, the Saddam Fedayeen that we've been talking about, those special militias that were created by the regime to control internal, to enforce internal repression and to control internal dissent.

CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2003 2003

QUESTION: Sir, are you worried that you're being dragged into a war of attrition by the so-called irregulars?

CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003 2003

The leader of the irregulars was a big, hard-faced, burly man.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

Some of them stayed because they were afraid they would be arrested when they went outside, or shot at, because they are part of the Palestinian police or had been part of what we could call irregulars, fighting militia brigades.

CNN Transcript May 10, 2002 2002

French soldiers, both regulars and irregulars, that is Francs-tireurs, located in the district, he deemed it best to retire on Toury and

My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887

The dissidents (in 1922 they were called irregulars) are on the other.

Signs of the Times 2009

It's not the full frontal assault that's no longer possible as it was before, but the sneak flanking attack by subversive 'irregulars', some, yes Paid, some volunteers '!?

Heads up staffers, tips to avoid a Health Care "Town Hell" (Blog for Democracy) 2009

Whatever happened to the idea that we would express our grave concerns about the occupancy of a portion of those territories by Al Qaeda and Taliban 'irregulars' and our continued support to the Pakistani efforts to hunt down and capture them, or push them back into Afghanistan were we are legitimately engaged in actions against them?

Election Central Morning Roundup 2009