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Definition of "paramilitaries" [paramilitaries]

  • Plural form of paramilitary. (noun)

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Use "paramilitaries" in a sentence
  • "In 1972, around 120 people were killed by loyalist paramilitaries from the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Defence Association (UDA)."
  • "The relationship between the IRA and Protestant paramilitaries is an asymmetrical one: the former is a tightly disciplined, highly efficient fighting force with widespread support in the Catholic community; the latter have long been no more than a rabble, without real political objectives and — although guilty of the sporadic and indiscriminate murder of Catholics — mainly occupied with extortion and racketeering, especially around the drug trade."
  • "So it was that I found myself in the mid-nineteen seventies in another small house, this time in Co. Wicklow south of Dublin, with a young family of my own and a slightly less imposing radio set, listening to the rain in the trees and to the news of bombings closer to home-not only those by the Provisional IRA in Belfast but equally atrocious assaults in Dublin by loyalist paramilitaries from the north."
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