10 sentences with 'insurgents'
Example sentences and phrases with the word insurgents and other words derived from it.
• « Thus, groups of "partisans" (i.e., insurgents) mounted successful resistance movements that cost the Germans men and resources. »
• « At its worst, the Cold War resulted in "proxy wars" between anti-communists led or at least supplied by the United States and communist insurgents inspired and occasionally supported by the Soviet Union or communist China (from 1949 onwards). »
• « Meanwhile, in 1945 Vietnamese insurgents declared Vietnam's independence from France, and French forces (like those following the German occupation) hurriedly invaded in an attempt to hold on to the French colony of Indochina. »
• « US involvement was triggered when the South Vietnamese proved unable to contain the Viet Minh and Viet Cong insurgents. Eventually, the thousands of US military "advisors", most of whom were made up of what would become known as special forces, were joined by hundreds of thousands of US troops. »
• « The Iraq war thus became a costly military occupation rather than an easy regime change, and in the years that followed internal violence and US attempts to suppress Iraqi insurgents resulted in more than a million deaths (estimates are notoriously difficult to verify, but the death toll could actually be more than two million). »
• « Israel, for its part, continues to face both regional hostility and internal threats from desperate Palestinian insurgents, and responds by tightening its grip on the nominally autonomous Palestinian regions of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. »
• « Afghan insurgents fighting for their freedom charged that Gorbachev was still on a war footing against their nation, and urged him to use the $7,100,000 Nobel Prize to clear Afghan territory of all mines laid by the Soviets. »
• « The British attempted to disarm the Massachusetts insurgents by confiscating their arms and ammunition and arresting the leaders of the patriot movement. »
• « In November 1775, he issued a decree, known as Dunmore's Proclamation, promising freedom to slaves and indentured servants of the rebels who remained loyal to the king and who pledged to fight with the Loyalists against the insurgents. Dunmore's Proclamation exposed serious problems for both the patriot cause and the British. »
• « After the British left Boston, they slowly adopted a strategy to isolate New England from the rest of the colonies and force the insurgents there into submission, believing that doing so would end the conflict. »