Get to know Paramilitaries better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Paramilitaries in a sentence
Paramilitaries meaning
plural of paramilitary
Using Paramilitaries
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of paramilitary
- In the example corpus, paramilitaries often appears in combinations such as: the paramilitaries, loyalist paramilitaries, paramilitaries and.
Context around Paramilitaries
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Paramilitaries
- In this selection, "paramilitaries" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, loyalist, republican, alleged, fighting, former and testified stand out and add context to how "paramilitaries" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 22 iraqi paramilitaries were hit and 30 alleged paramilitaries former police. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "paramilitaries" sits close to words such as abington, abled and adorno, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with paramilitaries
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The paramilitaries and army both accuse each other of attacking first. (11 words)
Who are the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitaries fighting Sudan’s Army? (12 words)
Ardoyne, Andytown etc were really unionists at heart and were intimidated by republican paramilitaries. (14 words)
Victims' campaigner Raymond McCord, whose son Raymond was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in 1997, said: "Anyone in Northern Ireland who condemns or criticises the Irish government over their action is no friend of victims". (34 words)
Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Saturday as paramilitaries and the regular army traded attacks on each other's bases, days after the army warned the country was at a "dangerous" turning point. (32 words)
Some sections of the press accused him of being the IRA's chaplain because of his prison welfare work, while the Sunday Express caricatured him as a recruiting sergeant for republican paramilitaries. (32 words)
Who are the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitaries fighting Sudan’s Army? (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Saturday as paramilitaries and the regular army traded attacks on each other's bases, days after the army warned the country was at a "dangerous" turning point.
Furthermore, the spread of weapons in the country with the support of the paramilitaries could further aggravate the situation.
Mr Harte said while communities are “doing the best we can … the basic bottom line is that paramilitaries have a responsibility to leave the stage”.
Some sections of the press accused him of being the IRA's chaplain because of his prison welfare work, while the Sunday Express caricatured him as a recruiting sergeant for republican paramilitaries.
That’s remained shadowy and hasn’t really come to light, with many insisting that they were either plainclothes police acting out of official channels or paramilitaries.
The family of a couple murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in 1975 have challenged the prime minister over the government's controversial legacy bill.
The paramilitaries and army both accuse each other of attacking first.
Victims' campaigner Raymond McCord, whose son Raymond was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in 1997, said: "Anyone in Northern Ireland who condemns or criticises the Irish government over their action is no friend of victims".
Who are the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitaries fighting Sudan’s Army?
Allegations of ties to drug cartels and paramilitaries have dogged him since the early 1980s, when the civil aviation agency he then led was accused of giving air licenses to drug traffickers.
Kenova investigators have recommended that more than 30 alleged paramilitaries, former police and ex-members of the intelligence and security forces should face criminal charges.
Paramilitaries in Syria, Iraq and Yemen played a similarly destabilizing role, making attacks by Israel and its allies far more likely.
Since October, American bases have faced frequent rocket barrages from Iran-affiliated Shiite paramilitaries in the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
The Hashed al-Shaabi, a coalition of mainly pro-Iran paramilitaries -- of which Kataeb Hezbollah is part -- now integrated into Iraq's regular security forces, also confirmed Saadi's death.
After 30 years, the paramilitaries have finally been able to gain a foothold in their former enemy’s territory.
Ardoyne, Andytown etc were really unionists at heart and were intimidated by republican paramilitaries.
As long as people on this side of the wall felt threatened, he said, loyalist paramilitaries would remain.
Between July 19 and September 22 Iraqi paramilitaries were hit in their Iraqi bases on at least eight different occasions.
He was was shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries from the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) in February 1989.
The demobilized paramilitaries testified in 2008 that the AUC’s former commander in Cundinamarca, “El Pajaro,” was coordinating the allegedly fraudulent election of Gutierrez with party bosses and social leaders.
Common combinations with paramilitaries
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the paramilitaries 9×
- loyalist paramilitaries 8×
- paramilitaries and 7×
- paramilitaries in 6×
- and paramilitaries 5×
- republican paramilitaries 4×
- paramilitaries were 4×
- paramilitaries are 4×
- paramilitaries have 3×
- right-wing paramilitaries 3×