semimilitary

• “With a similar mission, the Black Panther Party, founded in 1966, organized itself into a semimilitary organization in which duty to the “community” took precedence over what they called “decadent and bourgeois” desires for wealth and pleasure.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “A Turkish court accepted an indictment against leaders of the country's 1980 military coup, opening the way for a trial set to mark a symbolic end to Turkey's long era of semimilitary rule.”

  The Wall Street Journal: What's News

• “ISTANBUL—A Turkish court accepted an indictment against leaders of the country's 1980 military coup, opening the way for a trial set to mark a symbolic end to Turkey's long era of semimilitary rule.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Turkey Clears Way for Trial on Coup

• “Except as an arm for trench warfare or semimilitary police forces having to deal with armed risings, it is difficult to see what honest need they can meet; yet we are faced with the fact that they exist and are on the open market for anyone who wants to buy them.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Gun

• “McDonogh was a “semimilitary” school, which meant we all wore uniforms and did our share of drilling, but it was not a “military academy” of the southern sort.”

  Simon & Schuster: Surrender is not an Option

• “She had captured the nurse's semimilitary bearing and grim facial features rather well.”

  Goodnight, Irene

• “And Duarte was now the leader of a band of Ordenanza, the semimilitary organization of partisan fighters who harassed the French from every hill and along every lonely road.”

  Beyond the Sunrise

• “Thus, Mr. Nabokov wrongly describes the strel'tsy as a kind of body guard, while this was a general name for regimented servicemen armed with guns; the name originally meant "archers" and was not at all close to "sharpshooters"; some of their regiments were more like "semimilitary formations," as said in the book, than like Oriental or Byzantine palace guard, as Mr. Nabokov puts it.”

  Cranberry Sauce

• “Furthermore, both were organized on semimilitary lines with the subsidiary purposes of improving the physical fitness of potential soldiers and stimulating public commitment to national service in the emergency.”

  Simon & Schuster: Interpretations of American History

• “Both combined direct relief for the indigent with public-works programs to create jobs; both created semimilitary programs for the young; both were receptive to corporatist solutions that sought to enlist capitalists and workers in an effort to eliminate competition and restore harmony and order; both adopted similar agricultural policies; and both rested in part upon the charismatic personalities of their leaders.18”

  Simon & Schuster: Interpretations of American History

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