Warlord

Definition

warlord /'wↄ:lↄ:d/ n ( sometimes derog ) စစ္နယ္ရွင္။ rival/local warlords.

Examples

1. ‘These networks soon recruited tribal warlords and mobilised tribal extended families.’
2. ‘Anything that threatened the interests of the regional warlords would be vetoed.’
3. ‘The warlord was in Central Asia
4. in the region along the old border of Afghanistan and China.’
5. ‘Opium is grown freely in the countryside and gathered by farmers who sell it to factories employed by
6. or paying off
7. the local warlord.’
8. ‘Witnesses have told an Old Bailey jury they were imprisoned in a blood-stained room and beaten under the command of an Afghan warlord.’
9. ‘Renegade warlords and militants now control much of the main island of Guadalcanal.’
10. ‘Somaliland
11. in the north
12. and Puntland
13. in the north east
14. are in the hands of autonomous warlords.’
15. ‘President Charles Taylor is a former warlord who seized power and then was elected to it.’
16. ‘Some are the personal armies of aspiring warlords
17. out to conquer as much territory as they can and hold it by force.’
18. ‘The regional and local warlords who were the key allies of the US against the Taliban are not advocates of women's rights.’
19. ‘Somalia has been destroyed as a country
20. it has been torn into patches which are run by rebel armies of tribal warlords.’
21. ‘The shipowners often draw up contracts with local officials
22. clan elders or regional warlords.’
23. ‘Mr Taylor emerged the strongest warlord from that conflict and won presidential elections the following year.’
24. ‘The warlords already control several small but important enclaves across Afghanistan.’
25. ‘Just handing over the country to the warlords of the Northern Alliance once the war against the Taliban is won would be a kind of betrayal.’
26. ‘The US is buying off regional warlords and militia commanders for a variety of reasons.’
27. ‘Last week Karzai threatened to resign unless regional warlords paid more revenue into central government coffers.’
28. ‘The real struggle now is to bring the warlords together to manage the peace.’
29. ‘The analogy was that this was a nation ruled by twelve regional warlords.’
30. ‘An Anglo-Saxon ruler of this period was above all else a warlord
31. a dryhten
32. as the Old-English sources put it.’