adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
force
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The region has been fiercely contested by guerrillas and the paramilitary forces for the past few years.
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He is accused of hiring Barbie to advise the country's paramilitary forces on torture techniques.
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Civilians and members of security and paramilitary forces are also reported to have been physically ill-treated after being captured or detained.
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In the southern district of Faridabad there were visible pockets of tension, in spite of a strong presence of police and paramilitary forces .
forces
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The region has been fiercely contested by guerrillas and the paramilitary forces for the past few years.
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He is accused of hiring Barbie to advise the country's paramilitary forces on torture techniques.
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Civilians and members of security and paramilitary forces are also reported to have been physically ill-treated after being captured or detained.
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In the southern district of Faridabad there were visible pockets of tension, in spite of a strong presence of police and paramilitary forces .
group
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It even had some influence on paramilitary groups like the Protestant Ulster Defence Association.
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According to sources, the report urges paramilitary groups to commit themselves to exclusively democratic means and to total disarmament.
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Things got progressively out of hand, and a paramilitary group took hold of the upper Maroni region.
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Prime Minister Major favors elections as a path to talks since paramilitary groups have refused to disarm.
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All paramilitary groups , including those on ceasefire, continue to raise millions of pounds.
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I always suspected that this guy belonged to some anti-Castro paramilitary group .
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The Right is better organised than the Left, and has already started forming volunteer paramilitary groups .
organisations
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They went to a hall where they would meet a cross-section of men from the various paramilitary organisations .
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The paramilitary organisations , on either side of the political divide, remain active and hard to penetrate.
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Gangsters and racketeers gained a hold on sections of the urban paramilitary organisations quite early.
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Prisoners' families often end up relying on paramilitary organisations for transport to jails.
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The Ulster Workers' Council joined as did the remaining paramilitary organisations .
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Only the two main loyalist urban paramilitary organisations were able occasionally to produce a bomb of that size.
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It turns neighbour against neighbour, breaking down trust in a way that the paramilitary organisations are finding easy to exploit.
police
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The protestors eventually surrendered to paramilitary police .
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Armed paramilitary police placed central Turin under a virtual state of siege for the hearing on Saturday morning.
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I had not previously read anything about a paramilitary police force.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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paramilitary gear
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paramilitary operations
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In other countries, however, suspicions persist that the weapons and the paramilitary training were put to illegal use.
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More paramilitary than military, more maverick than paramilitary.
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Suspicions will now be increased that the regiment has been penetrated by a network of loyalist paramilitary supporters and sympathisers.
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The building trade alone, which is particularly vulnerable to paramilitary intimidation, loses millions of pounds a year.
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The Good Friday agreement was equivocal on decommissioning of paramilitary weapons.
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There had been no paramilitary involvement and no one had been injured, he said.
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They want to visit their gun shows, collect their armaments and enjoy their paramilitary games in peace.
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Usually it was a member of a political party; occasionally of a paramilitary organisation.