Sentences with phrase «guerilla war»

"Guerilla war" refers to a type of conflict where a smaller group fights against a larger and more powerful force using tactics such as ambushes, sabotage, and hit-and-run attacks. It involves unconventional warfare methods and aims to wear down the enemy rather than engage in traditional battles. Full definition
We've swapped a centrally organized government effort to distort climate science for a kind of grassroots, guerilla war against it, driven by blogs and skeptic scientist amateurs who nourish a powerful sense of self - motivation, a generous helping of anger and outrage, and seem to smell blood in the water.
The costly little guerilla war over the Comeau easement and the costly plans for a renovation of Town Hall are examples.
20 years after losing the war against the extraterrestrials and undergoing a brutal occupation, the remnants of XCOM are fighting a savage mobile guerilla war to take the planet back.
So great was his frustration, that by April of 1961, Mugabe publicly discussed starting a guerilla war — even going so far as to declare defiantly to a policeman, «We are taking over this country and we will not put up with this nonsense.»
Pakistani militants started a guerilla war to take it over, and the ruler appealed to the British Indian authorities for support, and opted to join India in response.
Autoimmunity (where it genuinely exists — chronic infections are often misdiagnosed as autoimmune conditions even where no autoimmunity is present) seems to be mainly a side effect of chronic infections — collateral damage in a guerilla war with pathogens that conceal themselves behind human «cellular shields.»
With the alien forces not only fully entrenched but also accepted as friendlies amongst the populous, the XCOM team now has to wage a guerilla war in their own backyard to extract the invaders.
We could have been treated to a more focused story, one in which the Ghosts are having to fight a guerilla war against a far more powerful adversary, forced to remain on the run from Rorke and the Federation as the United States gamely tries to continue its resistance.
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Two months after the first exhibition Germano Celant wrote a manifest, «Arte Povera: Notes for a Guerilla War».
To exist from outside the system amounts to revolution» Germano Celant «Arte Povera: Notes for a Guerilla War».
As the critic Germano Celant wrote in Arte Povera: Notes for a Guerilla War (his manifesto of sorts): «Over there a complex art, over here a poor art, committed to contingency, to events, to the non-historical, to the present...» Yet, as much as these works functioned in the present tense — often literally mutating in real time — they also rejected the fetish of the «contemporary,» with its technological and productivist tendencies.
As the critic Germano Celant wrote in Arte Povera: Notes for a Guerilla War (his manifesto of sorts): «Over there a complex art, over here a poor art, committed to contingency, to events, to the non-historical, to the present...» Yet, as much as these works functioned in the present tense - often literally mutating in real time - they also rejected the fetish of the «contemporary,» with its technological and productivist tendencies.
Think of it as a guerilla war, the classic strategy of a force that's outsized and outgunned.
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