And along the way rag-tag militia groups would join him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2005] Reference

A rag-tag assemblage, no doubt, but what's wrong with rag-tag?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earl Pomerantz: "Uncle Grumpy - on Belonging"] Reference

On Sunday, Kenya's army launched a major crackdown on the rag-tag.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The right, by contrast, has been more the vast rag-tag conspiracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right Ramps Up] Reference

Some officers who excel in helping the rag-tag class of young people, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference

Well, they called themselves rag-tag preachers trying to Change America.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2007] Reference

And leave behind these cut-throats and small rag-tag that dangle at your tail!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

Kinshasa is the last major city in Zaire still held by the rag-tag Zairean army.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Our kids play rag-tag on the raft on the lake and we go out for ice cream at night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lee Woodruff: The Nerds and the Bees] Reference

Bill and his rag-tag little group of Second Avenue survivors then took on City Hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tearing down historic Jerusalem: Urban removal hits the Holy Land too] Reference

This would not be rag-tag elements from willing countries assembled in a rag-tag way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen C. Rose: Pakistan Has Continually Lied on Nuke Issues] Reference

But I really wish you would not get acquainted with every rag-tag and bob-tail in town.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

I want you to come down here by and by and work privately among the rag-tag and bobtail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pudd'nhead Wilson] Reference

It's one thing when the United States squares off against the rag-tag army of the Taliban.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Feffer: After Mumbai] Reference

WHITFIELD: Lofty goals for an organization started by a group of so-called rag-tag preachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2007] Reference

Don't miss this breathless depiction of a rag-tag English force battling an implacable enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Farr: Praising Caine: The Original "Alfie" Turns 76] Reference

Hitherto, the demoralised and unmotivated rag-tag army has proved no match for the guerrillas.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

As a journalist you quickly understand that you are not dealing with a bunch of rag-tag fighters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Omid Memarian: My Interview With Deborah Campbell: How Hezbollah's Triumph is Blowback for U.S. Policy] Reference

French Foreign Legionnaires disguised as Tuareg tribesmen drove Libya's rag-tag army out of the strip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Margolis: Muammar Qadaffi -- The Great Survivor] Reference

The rag-tag oppositional forces left in Afghanistan and Iraq were like so many flies to be swatted away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Engelhardt: In Nightmares Begin Responsibilities: Why War Will Take No Holiday in 2010] Reference

Henry looked out from under his hair like some kind of rag-tag, shy-but-doomed Gothic sheep, "Not all of it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK] Reference

Hezbollah may be a rag-tag group of undereducated Islamic extremist militiamen, but at least they're not FEMA.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2006] Reference

But nor is there a hunger for the shabby rag-tag and bobtail "Conservatives", with their party logo-of-the-month.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

"This is the greatest day for us in the past three years," said Alfredo Sango, 32, directing a rag-tag marching band.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The "rag-tag band," as Booth called them, met every Friday for a year to learn about such arcane topics as derivatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Wall Street Can Win] Reference

The last three had been conscripted into the 'Red Army', a rag-tag child soldiers version of the Sudan People's Liberation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It's somewhat of a rag-tag hand-me-down bunch of weapons -- a lot of those old Soviet weapons, hand-me-down from wars past.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2001] Reference

        Henry looked out from under his hair like some kind of rag-tag, shy-but-doomed Gothic sheep, "Not all of it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [MYTHO-THERAPY ON THE BLINK] Reference

In other words, he who fights against the weak – and the rag-tag Iraqi militias are very weak indeed – and loses, loses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Again Hits Obama Over Foreign Policy] Reference

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Forty years ago this week, a rag-tag army launched an ill-fated invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2001] Reference

At first, we were maybe two thousand, walking in rag-tag down one of the busiest streets in the country, right through Hollywood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rick Jacobs: Obama Teaches the Gays] Reference

There is this rag-tag, I'd call them to be, honest group of people who have come from across the country to try and defeat this bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2007] Reference

And that's the best part of all this: Stein and his supposedly rag-tag little group of freedom fighters are neither rag-tag nor little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chez Pazienza: He Blinded Me Without Science] Reference

Without uniforms licenses or badges but with clear direction and coordination, the rag-tag bunch inspired fear in many a Kampala citizen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenna Gordon: Plainclothes Paramilitary Beat Kampala Protesters] Reference

Coast Guard planes flew overhead and spotted oil, but their crews were unable to communicate with the rag-tag bands floating beneath them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early cleanup efforts of gulf oil spill marred by communication woes, scammers] Reference

In the final scene of the movie, a bunch of rag-tag kids teach the cats to be good cats, and the cats help them win a softball tournament.    From Wordnik.com.  [Craig Rowin: Movie Phone Book: My Ticket To Hollywood] Reference

Kabila's Alliance troops marched into Kinshasa on May 17 after chasing a rag-tag and generally unpaid government army across a country the size of western Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Chiluba, who is coordinator of the DRC peace process, amid tight security and a serenade of "caustic" music played by a rag-tag brass band of Congolese youth who live in Zambia.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference