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  • In the early 1990's, massive uprisings erupted against Indian rule, which was enforced by 500,000 troops and ill-disciplined paramilitary police.

    Eric Margolis: Almost Forgotten: The World's Most Dangerous Conflict Eric Margolis 2011

  • It also needs to be remembered that vastly more of these deaths occurred from disease and famine than from violence – and although having ill-disciplined armies rampaging about greaty helped in the spread of both, great epidemics and famines would have happened anyway.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Fall of Poland 2010

  • Nevertheless, the army in the Civil War evolved from a stumbling, inefficient, and ill-disciplined volunteer force into a progressive, sophisticated, efficient war-making machine.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Miéville describes the book, a riotous mixture of London lore, messianic cults and pop-cultural in-jokes, as "an attempt to channel a sort of hopefully enjoyable ill-disciplined exuberance that I felt I had been moving away from".

    A life in writing: China Miéville 2011

  • Whimsical and full of long digressions on obscure Hegelian philosophers, it reads like the scribblings of a very clever but ill-disciplined graduate student.

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • Whimsical and full of long digressions on obscure Hegelian philosophers, it reads like the scribblings of a very clever but ill-disciplined graduate student.

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • Okay he was rubbish with Turkey, but he has got to have the best record for getting ill-disciplined and under-skilled teams to over achieve.

    Fabio Capello resigns as England manager – as it happened | Gregg Roughley 2012

  • It was a mixture of regulars half-trained and ill-disciplined, and colonials who did not know what to expect, supported by a train of wagons too light to carry their loads, pulled by horses too small to haul them.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Nevertheless, the army in the Civil War evolved from a stumbling, inefficient, and ill-disciplined volunteer force into a progressive, sophisticated, efficient war-making machine.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • It was a mixture of regulars half-trained and ill-disciplined, and colonials who did not know what to expect, supported by a train of wagons too light to carry their loads, pulled by horses too small to haul them.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

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