Synonym: reserves. Similar words: humility, militant, military, militate, millilitre, militarism, similitude, verisimilitude. Meaning: [mɪ'lɪʃə] n. 1. civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army 2. the entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service.
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31. Local militia had to protect it against enthusiastic souvenir hunters.
32. Rows in the beer tent were quickly suppressed by the militia.
33. The Kamajor militia and other loyal forces have been put in army uniform and brought under its command.
34. The interim government had tried unsuccessfully to separate the factions, by using loyal militia and neutral mujaheddin groups.
35. He wanted to find out if the local militia camp was where the intelligence briefers said it was.
36. The capital has been besieged by the opposition militia for two months now.
37. The militia would temporarily be in the hands of Parliament.
38. Under the protection of the militia, the Metropolitans raided the basement shebeen where Dunne was holed up.
39. He said the warlord's militia controlled less than a square mile of the city.
40. Some of his friends remembered him saying he had been stalked by militia members, and for a while speculation ran rampant.
41. The colonists' principal instrument of slave control was the local militia.
42. His concern about the organization of the militia was timely, but his intended reliance on the longbow was hardly forward-looking.
43. In the Chouf now, the Druze holy colours hang over the militia checkpoints.
44. Human rights activists accuse the United Nations of appeasing the militia.
45. In the surrounding debris of apartment blocks more militia would be crouched, forming the outer defence ring of the beleaguered stronghold.
46. Resistance from left-wing militia forces and loyalist Civil and Assault Guards was intermittently intense but incapable of seriously holding up the advance.
47. Then the militia, or the U. S. Army, in extreme cases, would enforce the injunction.
48. He left in 1803 without taking a degree and spent three years in a Wiltshire militia regiment.
49. No middle-aged man, it seems, ever belonged to an armed militia.
50. The responsibilities of the lord lieutenant for raising the militia only disappeared in 1921.
51. It may be called the state police, state troopers, militia, the rangers or the highway patrol.
52. In the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, the governor of Pennsylvania refused to call out the state militia.
53. Analysts said Mr Muawad faced the task of uniting militia leaders who have been fighting each other for 14 years.
54. The delegates wanted both a stable militia and a stable national standing army, providing the states could prevent uninvited national interference.
55. The governor called out the militia, but it arrived too late.
56. The militia and citizen patrols remained primarily responsible for control of the black population.
57. The adjutant general of Virginia believed that some means of insuring a speedy response from the militia might alleviate the problem.
58. Such resistance has, curiously[sentencedict.com], made Koresh a hero and martyr among some conservatives and right-wing militia groups.
59. A nationalist militia, the Mai Mai, has also joined battle with both sides.
60. The local militia gathered at their barracks, but their officers were reluctant to hurt any members of the mob.
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