noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
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The tsarist police force disintegrated and was replaced by local militias .
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He wanted to find out if the local militia camp was where the intelligence briefers said it was.
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He thought they were the local militia .
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The colonists' principal instrument of slave control was the local militia .
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According to the Bolsheviks' own admission, the local militia was incapacitated.
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The local militia gathered at their barracks, but their officers were reluctant to hurt any members of the mob.
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Thereafter, local militias organized by claimants to office would fight at the bidding of the state governor.
■ NOUN
group
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Such resistance has, curiously, made Koresh a hero and martyr among some conservatives and right-wing militia groups .
leader
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Analysts said Mr Muawad faced the task of uniting militia leaders who have been fighting each other for 14 years.
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Twenty years of litigation followed before militia leader John D.. Lee paid for the massacre with his life.
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The two militia leaders had been boycotting the Cabinet for several months.
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The technical team also visited Kismayo, Baidoa and Beletuen, speaking with relief workers and other militia leaders .
member
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Some of his friends remembered him saying he had been stalked by militia members , and for a while speculation ran rampant.
state
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In the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, the governor of Pennsylvania refused to call out the state militia .
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In most cases, members of the state militias sympathized with the strikers and thus failed to break the strike.
unit
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He could have a militia unit disbanded if he wished.
■ VERB
arm
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No middle-aged man, it seems, ever belonged to an armed militia .
call
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The governor called out the militia , but it arrived too late.
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In the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, the governor of Pennsylvania refused to call out the state militia .
disarm
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To minimize risks, they would not be required to disarm the several militia groups responsible for recent massacres.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He left in 1803 without taking a degree and spent three years in a Wiltshire militia regiment.
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In the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, the governor of Pennsylvania refused to call out the state militia .
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It stated that the militias should dissolve by April 20, 1991.
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Resistance from left-wing militia forces and loyalist Civil and Assault Guards was intermittently intense but incapable of seriously holding up the advance.
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The militia would temporarily be in the hands of Parliament.
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The colonists' principal instrument of slave control was the local militia .
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The governor called out the militia , but it arrived too late.