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.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

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.

Turkey Clears Way for Trial on Coup Ayla Albayrak 2012

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.

What's News 2012

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.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

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.

Surrender is not an Option John Bolton 2007

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.

Surrender is not an Option John Bolton 2007

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.

Surrender is not an Option John Bolton 2007

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.

Surrender is not an Option John Bolton 2007

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

Goodnight, Irene Burke, Jan 1993

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 Balogh, Mary 1992