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- noun Plural form of
paramilitary .
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Examples
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In 1972, around 120 people were killed by loyalist paramilitaries from the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).
MoD took softer line on loyalist paramilitaries, secret files reveal Owen Bowcott 2010
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The relationship between the IRA and Protestant paramilitaries is an asymmetrical one: the former is a tightly disciplined, highly efficient fighting force with widespread support in the Catholic community; the latter have long been no more than a rabble, without real political objectives and — although guilty of the sporadic and indiscriminate murder of Catholics — mainly occupied with extortion and racketeering, especially around the drug trade.
Police Powers Conor Cruise O'Brien 2001
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The relationship between the IRA and Protestant paramilitaries is an asymmetrical one: the former is a tightly disciplined, highly efficient fighting force with widespread support in the Catholic community; the latter have long been no more than a rabble, without real political objectives and — although guilty of the sporadic and indiscriminate murder of Catholics — mainly occupied with extortion and racketeering, especially around the drug trade.
Police Powers Conor Cruise O'Brien 2001
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So it was that I found myself in the mid-nineteen seventies in another small house, this time in Co. Wicklow south of Dublin, with a young family of my own and a slightly less imposing radio set, listening to the rain in the trees and to the news of bombings closer to home-not only those by the Provisional IRA in Belfast but equally atrocious assaults in Dublin by loyalist paramilitaries from the north.
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Last October, the Iraqi government agreed to assume responsibility for paying the paramilitaries from the Americans.
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Last October, the Iraqi government agreed to assume responsibility for paying the paramilitaries from the Americans.
unknown title 2009
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Last October, the Iraqi government agreed to assume responsibility for paying the paramilitaries from the Americans.
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Last October, the Iraqi government agreed to assume responsibility for paying the paramilitaries from the Americans.
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Last October, the Iraqi government agreed to assume responsibility for paying the paramilitaries from the Americans.
chron.com Chronicle 2009
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Past governments have always had a hard time calling paramilitaries by their real name.
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