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- verb Present participle of
demobilise .
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Examples
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"demobilising" all engineers, designers and draftsman in its wake.
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The state started demobilising paramilitaries in 2004, but many have reformed under new names such as the Black Eagles and operate as a mafia, smuggling, extorting and assassinating.
Colombians hunt for disappeared loved ones - and their murderers join search 2010
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Those battles took place after the retreat of the Germans, when the British army in conjunction with the local opposition began their campaign of demobilising and neutralising EAM-ELAS. back
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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The military integration is aimed at revamping the armed forces by disarming and demobilising combattants from various factions which took part in the 1998-2003 Congo and then putting them into army units.
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Withdrawing support from the troops is like demobilising the police during a gang war.
Archive 2007-04-01 Zoe Brain 2007
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Withdrawing support from the troops is like demobilising the police during a gang war.
It's all Bush's Fault Zoe Brain 2007
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As well as demobilising, the fighters surrendered 2,141 weapons between them, Lescoffit said.
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The mother bodies too were instrumental in demobilising the youth after the democratic breakthrough.
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SAP has more chance of demobilising popular hostility when it is administered by an elected government, as opposed to an illegitimate regime.
Contents 2004
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Ghana and Senegal had been tasked with disarming, demobilising, repatriating, re-integrating and resettling the rebel groups in that country, the public broadcaster said.
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