warlord
ಸೇನಾನಾಯಕ
definition
noun
The US is buying off regional warlords and militia commanders for a variety of reasons.
a military commander, especially an aggressive regional commander with individual autonomy.
translation of 'warlord'
ಸೇನಾನಿ,
ಸೇನಾನಾಯಕ
example
Witnesses have told an Old Bailey jury they were imprisoned in a blood-stained room and beaten under the command of an Afghan 'warlord' .
Mr Taylor emerged the strongest 'warlord' from that conflict and won presidential elections the following year.
President Charles Taylor is a former 'warlord' who seized power and then was elected to it.
The 'warlord' was in Central Asia, in the region along the old border of Afghanistan and China.
Opium is grown freely in the countryside and gathered by farmers who sell it to factories employed by, or paying off, the local 'warlord' .
An Anglo-Saxon ruler of this period was above all else a 'warlord' , a dryhten, as the Old-English sources put it.
Last week Karzai threatened to resign unless regional 'warlords' paid more revenue into central government coffers.
The regional and local 'warlords' who were the key allies of the US against the Taliban are not advocates of women's rights.
Anything that threatened the interests of the regional 'warlords' would be vetoed.
Some are the personal armies of aspiring 'warlords' , out to conquer as much territory as they can and hold it by force.
Somalia has been destroyed as a country, it has been torn into patches which are run by rebel armies of tribal 'warlords' .
The real struggle now is to bring the 'warlords' together to manage the peace.
These networks soon recruited tribal 'warlords' and mobilised tribal extended families.
Renegade 'warlords' and militants now control much of the main island of Guadalcanal.
The 'warlords' already control several small but important enclaves across Afghanistan.
The US is buying off regional 'warlords' and militia commanders for a variety of reasons.
Somaliland, in the north, and Puntland, in the north east, are in the hands of autonomous 'warlords' .
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.
The shipowners often draw up contracts with local officials, clan elders or regional 'warlords' .
The analogy was that this was a nation ruled by twelve regional 'warlords' .
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