Sentences with phrase «guerrilla war against»

Fidel Castro's key dates 1926: Born in the south - eastern Oriente Province of Cuba 1953: Imprisoned after leading an unsuccessful rising against Batista's regime 1955: Released from prison under an amnesty deal 1956: With Che Guevara, begins a guerrilla war against the government 1959: Defeats Batista, sworn in as prime minister of Cuba 1960: Fights off CIA - sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles 1962: Sparks Cuban missile crisis by agreeing that USSR can deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba 1976: Elected president by Cuba's National Assembly 1992: Reaches an agreement with US over Cuban refugees 2008: Stands down as president of Cuba due to health issues

«Make no mistake,» the paper says, «the Remainer elite, in cahoots with Brussels, is fighting a guerrilla war against Brexit using any means it can.»

The disappearance of the man who had ruled from Addis Ababa for the past two decades — having come to power through guerrilla war against the communist Derg regime — has unleashed speculation regarding likely successors and an internal power struggle inside the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).

Yet another church close by treats money as a principal adversary, waging a symbolic and sometimes ingenious guerrilla war against its power to dominate.

Not exact matches

That obsession led the United States to fight a war against an indigenously supported native guerrilla movement for which the U.S. military was unprepared (the second thesis); so American forces resorted to barbaric tactics and then lied to the American people about them.

This is basic guerrilla war strategy against a militarily and technologically superior foe.

Dinges refers to the crusade of Pinochet and other Latin American dictators against revolutionary guerrillas as «the first war on terrorism.»

Taking over for Patrick Swayze, Thor's Chris Hemsworth plays the leader of a band of rebels, a shit - kicking Iraq War veteran who knows how to survive in the woods and use guerrilla tactics against a much larger force.

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Not only that, but he spoke very little English and had no high school diploma — he had spent the better part of his teenage years in his native country as a guerrilla soldier fighting against the Nazis during World War II; going to college should have been impossible.