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guerrilla troops
noun as in special forces
Example Sentences
Bands of heavily armed guerrilla troops will soon be sweeping through several counties in rural North Carolina in their regular campaign against the forces of a fictional country known as “Pineland.”
In his typical military metaphor, Ren, who spent his early years as a Chinese army engineer, told a Huawei working group in the April speech that the changes would help the company advance from “guerrilla troops” to a “regular army.”
“You have to walk a very careful line between demobilizing guerrilla troops, and just saying ‘go home,'” says Robinson.
During the 1990s, China saw the appearance of tens of thousands of “extra-birth guerrilla troops”—couples from one-child areas who live in a legal limbo, shifting shift restlessly from city to city in order to shield their two or three children from the authorities’ baleful eye.
He also says the popular idea of skimming billions off the defense % budget is not likely to work if the A.N.C. persists in its plan to add 12,000 of its guerrilla troops to the armed forces and intends to provide tight security.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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