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  • verb Present participle of demobilise.

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Examples

  • "demobilising" all engineers, designers and draftsman in its wake.

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Withdrawing support from the troops is like demobilising the police during a gang war.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Zoe Brain 2007

  • Withdrawing support from the troops is like demobilising the police during a gang war.

    It's all Bush's Fault Zoe Brain 2007

  • As well as demobilising, the fighters surrendered 2,141 weapons between them, Lescoffit said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • The mother bodies too were instrumental in demobilising the youth after the democratic breakthrough.

    Youth and politics in the democratic order 2005

  • SAP has more chance of demobilising popular hostility when it is administered by an elected government, as opposed to an illegitimate regime.

    Contents 2004

  • Ghana and Senegal had been tasked with disarming, demobilising, repatriating, re-integrating and resettling the rebel groups in that country, the public broadcaster said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

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