What is "guerillas"

Usage examples of "guerillas".

The guerillas are taking a heavy toll on food distribution networks—trucking centers, packing plants, warehouses—and utilities infrastructure—electrical power generating plants, sewage treatment facilities, public transportation hubs—that cannot be replaced at Jefferson's current level of industrial sluggishness.

Working with urban guerillas was a far cry from courier work, distributing guns, bullets, and food to Granger camps.

Relentless attacks on highly placed officials—which appear to be coordinated through an alliance between Granger guerillas and urban insurrectionists—have speeded Santorini's loosening grip on reality.

Phil Fabrizio didn't know that she was the daughter of Colonel Khrustinov, who was purportedly still on Vishnu, insofar as most of the urban guerillas knew.

Maria had barely spoken to him since their cautious meeting at the prearranged spot where the urban guerillas had agreed to rendezvous with him.

When Simon dragged his attention back to the little room where Vittori flickered silently on the viewscreen and the urban guerillas stood staring at him, Maria whispered, "That was Commodore Oroton.

The commodore's guerillas have been digging in and hunkering down for an entire week.

Simon followed Maria and her family down to the street, escorted by one of the urban guerillas who'd brought the prodigal son home.

The urban guerillas, unfamiliar with Plan Alpha Three, page twelve, didn't know what to expect.

He could not do this unperceived, however, and at once the guerillas came swarming closer and closer upon our flanks.

Up this I was driven until we reached the headquarters of the guerillas, which lay in a cleft close to the summit of the mountain.

Even from where we stood we could see that impassive body amid the flames, and the black figures of the guerillas as they danced, howling like cannibals, round the pile.

The Russian army contains the best and the worst in the world, but a worse than Major Sergine of the Dragoons of Kieff I have never seen in any force outside of the guerillas of the Peninsula.

That one bars engaging guerillas except when they are actively trying to attack.

Why didn't the United States or South Vietnam execute, generally, Viet Cong guerillas who had gravely violated the laws of war in the course of the insurgency there?