Some heavy weapons possessed by the militias have been turned over to the government, which has begun a plan to integrate some militiamen into the military and the internal security forces.
Since the removal of Awn, the Lebanese Government has reunited the capital city and implemented a phased plan to disarm the militias and gradually reestablish authority throughout Lebanon.
The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) has seized vast quantities of weapons used by themilitias during the war and extended central government authority over about one-half of the country.
Most of themilitias have been weakened or disbanded.
The militias gradually recovered the bourgeois aspect and feeling.
Militias and National Reconciliation The use of force by the government of Iraq is appropriate and necessary to stop militias that act as death squads or use violence against institutions of the state.
Shiite militias engaging in sectarian violence pose a substantial threat to immediate and long-term stability.
Sunni insurgents will not lay down arms unless the Shia militias are disarmed.
Dealing with Iraq's militias will require long-term attention, and substantial funding will be needed to disarm, demobilize, and reintegrate militia members into civilian society.
Iran has provided arms, financial support, and training for Shiite militias within Iraq, as well as political support for Shia parties.
Militias are currently seen as legitimate vehicles of political action.
Shia militias will not disarm until the Sunni insurgency is destroyed.
The prevalence of militias sends a powerful message: political leaders can preserve and expand their power only if backed by armed force.
It is fed by a Sunni Arab insurgency, Shiite militias and death squads, al Qaeda, and widespread criminality.
The militias target Sunni Arab civilians, and some struggle for power in clashes with one another.
Iran backs Shia claims and supports various Shia militias in Iraq, but it also supports other groups in order to enhance its influence and hedge its bets on possible outcomes.
The disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of militias depends on national reconciliation and on confidence-building measures among the parties to that reconciliation.
In June 2006, a loose coalition of clerics, business leaders, and Islamic court militias ?
Some heavy weapons possessed by the militias have been turned over to the government, or sold outside the country, which has begun a plan to integrate some militiamen into the military and the internal security forces.
There have been Country Militias voluntarily got on foot, for the occasion; five or six small regiments of them; officered by Prussian Veterans of the Squirearchy in those parts; who do excellent service.
These poor militias and flotillas one cheerfully puts on record; cheerfully nothing else, in regard to such a Swedish War;--nor shall we henceforth insult the human memory by another word upon it that is not indispensable.
The Regular Army never had been together with the Organized Militia, and the Organized Militias of the various States never had seen each other.
It was politics that had left their State militias to blunder along, each by itself, without agreement or settled plan.
In June 2006, a loose coalition of clerics, business leaders, and Islamic court militias known as the Council of Islamic Courts (CIC) defeated powerful Mogadishu warlords and took control of the capital.
Most militias have been disbanded, and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) have extended authority over about two-thirds of the country.
The Republican doctrine of 1800 was, that there was no need of a national army; that the militias of the Commonwealths were a sufficient military force; and that a standing army was dangerous to liberty.
In the city militias solidarity had been obtained through the close personal relationship of the trade gilds and by the elimination of the champion.
The militias of all the civilized nations of the ancient word, of Greece, of Syria, and of Egypt, made but a feeble resistance to the standing armies of Rome.
Those militias which, like the Tartar or Arab militia, go to war under the same chieftains whom they are accustomed to obey in peace, are by far the best.
The victories which have been gained by militias have generally been, not over standing armies, but over other militias, in exercise and discipline inferior to themselves.
The militias of some barbarous nations defended themselves much better.
The ancient institutions of Greece and Rome seem to have been much more effectual for maintaining the martial spirit of the great body of the people, than the establishment of what are called the militias of modern times.
The militias of all the civilized nations of the ancient world, of Greece, of Syria, and of Egypt, made but a feeble resistance to the standing armies of Rome.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "militias" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
