Instead, preferring a weak, lightly-armed African Union force.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2007] Reference

As lightly-armed commandos, Special Forces became low priority.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2002] Reference

Today, they can barely hold on against the lightly-armed Taliban.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Margolis: Lies Drive the Afghan War] Reference

He said you see these lightly-armed Iraqi soldiers basically just in pickup trucks charging these tanks and Bradleys.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2003] Reference

Some 50,000 Ethiopian troops... had cut a bloody swath through the lightly-armed forces of the Islamic Courts Union.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alemayehu G. Mariam: The "Fantastic Somalia Job"] Reference

We distinguish between two kinds of peacekeeping operations - unarmed observer groups and lightly-armed military forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [United Nations Peacekeeping Forces - History of Organization] Reference

Some 50,000 Ethiopian troops ... had cut a bloody swath through the lightly-armed forces of the Islamic Courts Union.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alemayehu G. Mariam: The "Fantastic Somalia Job"] Reference

Of course the plan itself wasn't at fault: attacking 225,000 armed Cubans with 1500 lightly-armed exiles couldn't possibly go wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reviews Too Late: The Good Shepherd] Reference

A lightly-armed and divided rightwing was preparing for a guerilla war it could not win, Law and Order Minister Mr Hernus Kriel said on Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He said the NNP proposed that the constabulary consist of a mobile, lightly-armed patrol force, comprising both full-time and part-time personnel.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

At Agincourt, five hundred and fifty-five years ago, Henry V and his lightly-armed men routed a more powerful army, four times as large in numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [D-Day Dinner] Reference

A neutral peacekeeping operation, lightly-armed, in an area where there was no peace to keep, served mainly to consolidate the gains from aggression.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Findley Foundation Lecture] Reference

How can a bunch of lightly-armed mountain tribesmen in turbans fighting only part-time battle the world s most powerful armed forces to a standstill?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Margolis: Please Mr. President! Some Truth About Afghanistan] Reference

How can a bunch of lightly-armed mountain tribesmen in turbans fighting only part-time battle the world's most powerful armed forces to a standstill?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Margolis: Please Mr. President! Some Truth About Afghanistan] Reference

The good news was that the insurgents attacked the way they did -- lightly-armed, against a very heavily-armored U. S.-reinforced, mechanized company.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2003] Reference

U.N. commanders argue that precipitate air strikes might worsen the situation, hinder diplomatic peace efforts and expose lightly-armed peacekeepers to revenge attacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Unless you're Messrs Staples and Robinson who want the CF essentially reduced to a lightly-armed gendarmerie suitable only for non-combat, UN-only, peacekeeping missions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defense spending: Gross misrepresentation] Reference

The NNP suggested that the current force be replaced by a constabulary consisting of a mobile, lightly-armed patrol force, comprising both full-time and part-time personnel.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But the paths were beset; the Amphilochians were lightly-armed, and in their own country which they knew, while their enemies were heavy-armed and the country was strange to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

The sons were only crushed by overwhelming oddsIt took around 200 armed soldiers backed by missiles, armored personnel carriers and helicopters to kill four lightly-armed opponents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diplomatic Diary: Two Allies--And Two Brothers] Reference

For, though unarmed and only adorned with his emblems of royalty, he outstripped the rest who bore arms, and exposed himself, lightly-armed as he was, to the hottest perils of the battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

But the Bosnian Serb army easily overran the lightly-armed Dutch force there.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

But the Bosnian Serb army easily overran the lightly-armed Dutch force there in July.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

Roger rode behind him, and was followed by the two lightly-armed men, who were to act as messengers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower] Reference

The lightly-armed KSF, with 2,500 regular and 800 reserve troops, replaced the unarmed Kosovo Protection Corps on Tuesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

By July of 1995 the town was under siege, with 600 lightly-armed Dutch peacekeepers facing off against the Serbian forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Though vastly superior in a charge, the troopers 'horses were ill able to come up with the active steeds of the lightly-armed smugglers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Won from the Waves] Reference

The lightly-armed, body-armor-less guerrillas were too mobile and too agile, he said, for up-armored, heavily weighed-down American troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [MoJo Blogs and Articles] Reference

Mullen said he understands the frustrations of critics who ask how bands of lightly-armed pilots can seemingly hold powerful navies at arm's length.    From Wordnik.com.  [Navy Times - News] Reference

Israeli soldiers - known for their cowardice -, used Palestinian civilians as human shields to protect them from the lightly-armed Palestinian Resistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Countercurrents.org] Reference

KFOR to meet Nato standards, the new outfit - described by Nato as a "lightly-armed formation" rather than an army - replaces the Kosovo Protection Corps.    From Wordnik.com.  [SofiaEcho RSS feed] Reference

The Serbs brushed aside lightly-armed Dutch UN peacekeepers in the 'safe area' where thousands of Muslims from surrounding villages had gathered for protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [RTÉ News] Reference

The Serbs brushed aside lightly-armed Dutch UN peacekeepers in the "safe area" where thousands of Muslims from surrounding villages had gathered for protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raw Story] Reference

Think about fighting a lightly-armed, lightly dressed, fleet-footed enemy with better knowledge of the harsh terrain, and with physiologies acclimated to the thinner, drier air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference

It’s not Rwanda, where a few hundred lightly-armed peacekeepers might have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Answering Africa’s Call] Reference

4. So, when you read these hurricane threads, realize that this is a battle of ideas among smart experts who are lightly-armed with facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curry's Comments on Klotzbach « Climate Audit] Reference