I always thought the word ragtag best applied to the Mahdi Army. From Wordnik.com. [Wednesday, April 02, 2008] Reference
This "ragtag" country should be long gone by now, but isn't??. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: Bush and McCain 'have a lot to answer for'] Reference
But as we cruised breezily down the car-free streets, meeting up with other wheeled university contingents, a kind of ragtag mass euphoria built with each addition to the ranks. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-09] Reference
First, this is a 'ragtag' combination of diverse elements with no common ideological basis. From Wordnik.com. [Kafila] Reference
The threat is from the "ragtag" Taliban who just took over Swat valley and Bruner, so you are wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference
It seems you and the other "boys on the bus" love making the tired statements about "ragtag" pirates holding "the big Navy" hostage. From Wordnik.com. [Cafferty File] Reference
Vlado joins a ragtag militia led by a black marketer. From Wordnik.com. [Sarajevo In The Cross Hairs] Reference
"It may please the ragtag and bobtail crowd from the ground up," said. From Wordnik.com. [Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat] Reference
Lots has happened to McKinley High's ragtag glee club over the summer. From Wordnik.com. [Seen and Heard at the Glee Premiere: A Surprise Boob Job and Finn's Rocky Horror Mankini] Reference
This is the tiny pirate skiff usually operated by a ragtag group of armed pirates. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2008] Reference
At the same time, al Shabaab has grown from a ragtag militancy to a determined foe. From Wordnik.com. [Militants Kill at Least 31 in Somalia] Reference
What an MIT-trained economist was doing with the ragtag Ruff-Puffs is anybody's guess. From Wordnik.com. [A 'Whiz Kid' Among The Ruff-Puffs] Reference
And I walked in, and it was a little, radical, ragtag group, Mental Patients Liberation Front. From Wordnik.com. [Advocate For People With Mental Illnesses Dies] Reference
He is not an obstreperous warlord with blood on his hands, plunder on his mind and a ragtag army. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Conciliator] Reference
There were well-funded teams staffed with industry experts, along with ragtag teams of enthusiasts. From Wordnik.com. [Automotive X Prize: Shakedown continues, drama ensues] Reference
Both the Croats and the Bosnians are light-years away from being anything other than a ragtag citizens 'army. From Wordnik.com. ['THE BLOCKADE IS A JOKE'] Reference
But EATers have trouble explaining how they'd bring the ragtag Bosnian Army into fighting trim by next October. From Wordnik.com. [A Grip--But No Grins] Reference
The troops spearheading this operation are elite paratroopers and Spetsnaz special commandos, not ragtag grunts. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Apocalypse Again] Reference
In 2002 the Pentagon stepped in, training and equipping Georgia's ragtag Army to clear out the unwelcome guests. From Wordnik.com. [Russia’s Nervous Neighbors] Reference
They were elite commandos, surrounded and killed by ragtag militias trained by bin Laden's al Qaeda, says the FBI. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2001] Reference
BLITZER: Because this war, 34 days, against Hezbollah, a ragtag guerrilla outfit, showed that Israel is vulnerable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2006] Reference
Strange, too, he came of good family; good blood in his veins; and yet he seems to have gone right down with the ragtag. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference
The Soviet Union's formidable military was bogged down against an enemy it originally considered ragtag and ill equipped. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted] Reference
Everything else was compared, considered to be somewhat ragtag, although many of the other units have put up a fight too. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2003] Reference
We think of Washington at Valley Forge, or we think of Washington with his ragtag band of militia men beating the British. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2004] Reference
Taylor reemerged in West Africa, commanding a ragtag rebel army accused of hacking its way to Liberia's campaign of Monrovia. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2007] Reference
It's been called the Vietnam War of its time, a ragtag band of insurgents defeating one of the greatest militaries of the age. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2010] Reference
The ragtag band of soldiers -- many wearing orange headbands, flip-flops and Freedom Fighters T shirts -- were quickly repulsed. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting For Justice?] Reference
These are, like Hull, professional NHL players, not the ragtag bunch of collegians and minor leaguers who took the gold in 1980. From Wordnik.com. [The Puck Starts Here] Reference
Even as the KLA expanded, it reconfigured its ranks from a ragtag assemblage of village militias into a structured fighting force. From Wordnik.com. ['We Believe In Our Guns'] Reference
"Garcia Girls"'for example, is the story of four sisters weathering their transition from wealthy Dominicans to ragtag immigrants. From Wordnik.com. [Caught Between Two Cultures] Reference
The founder's younger brother, Khaddafi Janjalani, quietly managed to rebuild a ragtag but dangerous fighting force of roughly 200 armed men. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble In Paradise] Reference
Its few opponents -- like Saddam, Kaddafi and Castro -- are a ragtag assortment of despots who preside precariously over their impoverished lands. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Crisis Manager] Reference
Unlike the country's ragtag police force, the 48,000-strong Royal Nepalese Army is well funded and politically powerful, and the king was reluctant to deploy it. From Wordnik.com. [Nepal's Maoist Threat] Reference
History tells us that the man who first instilled discipline in the ragtag Continental Army at Valley Forge was the Prussian Baron Frederick William von Steuben. From Wordnik.com. [What's Fair In Love And War] Reference
Al Qaeda is a determined but ragtag bunch of Third World revolutionaries and nihilists, without a single country in the world that will openly house, feed and supply them. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom Vs. Security] Reference
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