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  • One of them, a tall and slender man, was clad in white ducks that fitted him like a semi-military uniform.

    Chapter 14 2010

  • Forrest lifted his right hand, the quirt dangling from wrist, the straight forefinger touching the rim of his Baden Powell in semi-military salute.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • This book, this project, is hard semi-military sci-fi and my vocabulary in this genre isn't extensive.

    Sloths do move... 2010

  • This book, this project, is hard semi-military sci-fi and my vocabulary in this genre isn't extensive.

    Sloths do move... 2010

  • Much of this transformation can be attributed to the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), a semi-military organization of settlers that has built farms, towns, and cities over scattered parts of Xinjiang.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Stalin was wearing his eternal semi-military suit.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • The semi-military role Sarah carved for herself in the underground, her activity and her voluntary death made her an icon and a model of a new “Hebrew” femininity, a model especially cultivated within the so-called civic sector of the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine (defined as distinct from the socialist labor sector, dominant throughout the period before the late 1970s).

    Sarah Aaronsohn. 2009

  • In August 15, 1975 mutineer killed Banghabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of the nation, and from then military and semi-military rule began to rule gripping people's will for a democratic practice.

    Political development in Bangladesh 2009

  • I found also that Communities living under the restrictions of occupation turned by time into a semi-military societies, many families have weapons that can be used in incidents of violence against women by husbands.

    free spaces: Arab Women & Blogging Ehab hamdi 2009

  • In the post independence era, decades-long struggle for democracy against military or semi-military rule were also led by the student unions.

    Campus violence a socio-political problem in Bangladesh 2009

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