Definitions
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- proper noun A
right-wing Lebanese paramilitary movement based somewhat on theSpanish Falange
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Examples
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The true nationalists in Lebanon are the Kataeb Party (other wise known as the Phalange).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007
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It frightened the Christians into enlarging their own unofficial armed forces, the "militias," of which that of the Phalange was the strongest.
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It frightened the Christians into enlarging their own unofficial armed forces, the "militias," of which that of the Phalange was the strongest.
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"The state cannot allow any illegal military presence on any of its territories ... not the weapons of Palestinian factions ... not the weapons of Hizbullah," he told the party faithful and senior members of the March 14 Forces of which the Phalange is a part.
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To some, such as Phalange and Lebanese Forces 'Christian leaders, it means the right to demand concessions from arms-bearing groups, such as Hezbollah.
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To some, such as Phalange and Lebanese Forces 'Christian leaders, it means the right to demand concessions from arms-bearing groups, such as Hezbollah.
Patrick Galey: Is Lebanon Forgetting its Cedar Revolution? 2010
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The close cultural ties between Syria (the Muslim-majority portion of the former French Mandate) and Muslims in Lebanon led directly to strong ties between Muslims under attack from Christian rightsts (organized as early as 1938 into the Kataeb Social Democratic Party, "Phalange" for short, by a Lebanese Christian strongman named Pierre Gemayel), and to Syrian intervention in the affairs of its former enclave.
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The main Christian party was actually a Catholic militia called the Phalange, or “Phalanx,” and had been founded by a Maronite Lebanese named Pierre Gemayel who had been very impressed by his visit to Hitler’s Berlin Olympics in 1936.
'God Is Not Great' 2007
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The secular leftist ends up joining the right-wing Christian Phalange party and dies.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Phalange was on a page with pharmaceutical and pharmacology, but the page was in one of these medical dictionaries, not the regular one.
The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011
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